So I've somewhat abandoned the blogging world. Not on purpose. I'd say it's because the exciting-ness of pregnancy is over, but that can't be right because having the baby here is way better and way more worth blogging about.
Gavin is growing and changing all the time now (obviously). He's hitting all his milestones, learning how to do new things all the time and it's so amazing to watch! It took about a month for him to stop crying at EVERYTHING and realize life on the outside isn't so bad. He'd cry when he got a bath, a diaper change, clothes changed, almost anything really. Nick and I used to say if he's awake, he's crying. He had days and nights reversed. It took weeks to get him to be able to sleep anywhere but on me. I slept in the recliner with him for weeks and was 15 shades of miserable. It finally got better and I do not miss those nights one bit.
A few weeks ago, he surprised me and actually slept through the night! Nowadays if he does it, he'll usually sleep something like 10-11pm til 5 or 6am. then I can usually get him to go back to sleep until a more reasonable morning hour. He doesn't sleep through every night, but I'm totally stoked that he does it at all while he's still this young!
Gavin is already a traveling fool at 2 1/2 months old. We took him to Key West to meet my grandparents in the last weekend in April. he did awesome on the plane, thank goodness. Then the next weekend we went to Ocean City for Springfest, and we've just generally made a bunch of trips up to Annapolis, especially while Nick's been out on the boat.
I kinda wish I'd been tracking when he specifically reached each milestone, but honestly I can probably just look back on facebook. haha. I know he started smiling around a month old. I remember Nick got to see him smile a few times before going out on the boat on April 20th. I know it was a week or two later when he started cooing and "talking", which is the cutest shit I've ever witnessed in my life. I swear, this child melts my heart so much. I LOVE that when I greet him when waking up, he smiles BIG and says good morning back :) I LOVE that he knows his mommy.
Today he got his first round of vaccinations. It wasn't as bad as I thought it'd be! I didn't cry and he only cried for a minute or two until I picked him up. Of course he got all redfaced and screamed but then he was only a bit whiny until I got him back in his car seat and in the car, then he was fast asleep. He did great, and all his development was on track too. He's a tall boy, 81st percentile in height at 24 1/2 inches and 46th in weight at 12lb 5oz! I can't believe he's almost doubled his birth weight!! How is my tiny babyboy growing so fast? His feet hang off the boppy pillow now when he nurses!
Despite the frustrations that there's inevitably been, I love this little booger. He's such a joy. I see more and more how he resembles me as his features are becoming more defined. I see Nick and myself in him and it's incredible we created this little person. He's so loved by so many people and he doesn't even know it yet :)
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