6 Weeks Already?

Thursday our little baby will be 6 weeks old already!  I cannot believe how fast the time is flying by.  Today he had his first doctor's appointment since the original one right after he was born.  He's up to 22 inches long (50th percentile) and a whopping 10lbs and 2 oz (42nd percentile).  He really has bulked up because when he was born his weight was only the 25th percentile.  He's growing like crazy!  He also had the second Hep B shot today.  The poor little guy screamed for a second and turned bright red (a true Buckeye baby) but luckily has been fine since.  It's rough to see him get the shots, but I am so thankful for modern medicine and the fact that he can get these shots to prevent potential serious issues and illness in the future.

It has been fun to watch him become more alert as well.  He loves looking around and often fixates on something he finds interesting.  He loves the mobile above is bed and the one on his swing as well.  He usually picks one of the animals and you can watch his eyes follow it around as it spins.

He has also started to smile more and more.  I can't get over how much I LOVE that gummy grin.  He's eating about 3oz of formula every 2.5 hours (unfortunately I haven't been able to breastfeed, which was pretty traumatic to learn but I've come to terms with) and is making it 4.5 hour stretches during the night.

My favorite new trick of Jake's is laying him down in his crib wide awake and him falling asleep on his own.  He is definitely a night owl.  Most nights he wakes up at 8 or 9pm and is WIDE awake until about 1am.  Yikes.  That has not been working with my schedule at all.  He's awake a lot during the day too- about an hour to an hour and a half with each feeding (and I'm doing 2.5 hours from the beginning of one to the beginning of another).  He's just a very awake little guy.  I've been moving up the time a little each night that I lay him in his crib, and last night about an hour after I put him down I looked on the monitor and he was still moving all around, clearly awake, but quiet and happy as a clam.  That's seriously the best skill I could have picked for him to learn!

This past Sunday we took him to church for the first time.  We were up in Wadsworth (my home town) visiting my family, so we took him to the ward I grew up in.  He slept like a champ through the first and last part and was really only awake enough to eat in the middle.  I stayed in the room to feed him for awhile, but then he was squeaking too much and eating so loudly that I passed him off to Andrew to take out in the hall while he finished his bottle.  That was probably a wise choice considering how loud he burps a lot of the time.  All in all it went well and we'll definitely take him back again next week- this time in Columbus :)

Andrew and I have LOVED being parents and can't get over how much we adore him and melt when he grins at us.  We are definitely enjoying being a family of 3 :)