Mommy and Me: Home Alone

This weekend, Avi and his Ema were home alone for the first time EVER, since Abba was away in D.C. on a business trip. Believe it or not, we are surviving, though Ema is very tired. We've played lots of games, sung lots of songs, and taken a bath every day (well, at least Avi has!). Avi's been very compliant with going to bed around 6:30-7pm, but he still wakes up every four hours or so and wants to eat. On Friday night, I was so zonked from a whole day home alone with baby in the rain that I fell asleep in my bathrobe after a much needed shower, and only woke up at 11pm when Avi started to cry in his room. So much for shabbat dinner! Last night Avi was up so often that I probably only slept for about 3 hours all night, and then it was time to get up and play at 6am. So when we got home from our walk this morning, and Avi kept sleeping in his carseat, Bernard and I joined him, even though there was clean laundry to put away (on the bed!), and plenty of other things to do. Wish us luck. Just 24 more hours till Jeremy comes home! Yay!

The Fourth Trimester is Almost Over

Baby experts say that the first three months of a baby's life are really an extension of pregnancy, the fourth trimester. Avi is 11 weeks old today, and he is growing by leaps and bounds. At 8 weeks he weighed 13 pounds, 7 ounces, and measured 24.5 inches long. He is quite the chubby little fellow. With every week, a new challenge surfaces. First it was baby acne, then cradle cap, and now we are dealing with the results of having a little guy in the 80th percentile for weight--folds of fat that irritate his sensitive skin and create red patches under his chin, elbows and knees. Hopefully he will start holding his head up 100% soon, to help out the situation. He's getting there! He rolls from his back to his side, and picks up his head when he's on his tummy to look from side to side. He's also doing that adorable pre-laugh laugh--something like a sharp intake of air combined with a gurgle--and babbling up a storm. We are excited to see what Avi has in store for us as he turns the corner from his newborn stage to "real" baby! We also hope that when he gets to the 3 month mark, he will be closer to sleeping through the night, and that he will go back to taking long naps in the afternoon (which he no longer likes to do--instead, he prefers to be up ALL day long, with reluctant 30 minute naps twice a day, usually while we go for a walk or a drive in the car)!