Week 0 - 15 :: Visually

We've updated the weekly photos of Miles - see how he grows.

Nap Training

Miles and I are getting into a pretty solid rhythm for napping - and it's making him a much happier little man. He has gotten good at putting himself to sleep - I can put him down awake and he can fall asleep. More often than not, he wakes up after 45 minutes and can't put himself back to sleep. When this happens, he wakes up cranky. If I catch him in time, I can help him fall back asleep with a finger in his mouth and some gentle shushing. If not, we start the feed, play, sleep cycle again and I hope that a couple hours later he is more tired and will sleep longer than 45 minutes. Sometimes this works, others, not so much.

I have also started tracking volume of sleep. He typically sleeps around 15 hours a day. Some days, the ones when he doesn't sleep well, he may only get 14, but that is still good. We've made a ton of progress on this front in the last 2 weeks, but we still have a little ways to go.

15 Weeks!

Miles is seriously growing up fast!!! These past 2 weeks have been pretty amazing in terms of watching our little man grow up quickly.

1. Below are recent pictures of tummy time. We hadn't done it in a couple of days, and were SHOCKED on Sunday night when we put him on his tummy in the living room and he could pick up his head high enough to watch TV. Crazy.
   
2. He has also taken to reaching out for toys. It started with the little blue elephant we put in his car seat with him, and now it is everything... and it all goes into his mouth. As I sit here typing, he is grabbing all the toys on the activity mat and pulling them.
3. He discovered his feet! The day of his weekly photo, we put him in red and black socks, and could hardly get his attention as he was staring at his feet. He talked, clapped, rattled some toys, but he was intent on focusing on his little tootsies. Too cute. We finally got a good picture for the weekly aggregate, but some of the foot-fascination ones are pretty cool too... if you know what you are looking at.
   

Tummy Time!

Mom works with Miles daily on his exercises during tummy time. He is almost able to roll over. He gets all they way over to his side but has a hard time pushing over his down hill arm. We've had him successfully roll from tummy to tushy, which is good from a sleeping on stomach at night perspective.

We're still working on sleep regimen and self-soothing.

Morning Miles!!

Gooooood Moonin!

Miles's 3mo birthday bash!!

Needless to say we got a little crazy :)

Miles showing off his new sunglasses!

Miles Reading

Miles reading with Allen Fish in Soda Springs.
Sitting up all on his own - he's getting so big.