Friday, March 07, 2008

Dear Luke

I know I know.....I would post something about your sister like every day on this blog, and do a monthly update and your 5 months old and you have one post. Well let me start off by saying that it's not because your the second and your sister is the favorite, which is probably what your thinking. It's because you STILL don't sleep through the night and mommy is tired! Your sister started sleeping through the night at 8 weeks. So really it's your fault not mine. =oP


Your adorable! Your eyes were brown the second you were born, you look like you have a tan (like your mommy) even though your skin has never seen sun. You look so little and frail, and your real easy when it comes to eating. My milk wasn't in, and you didn't care that much...you just slept and were fine. So much so that they told me I had to wake you up to feed you (which was totally against every grain of my being....WAKE a sleeping child? WHAT?) I had to bring you to the doctors 3 days after leaving the hospital to ensure you were gaining weight since you lost so much while we were there. You gained a whole pound in 3 days, which was insane. From that time on till you were 3 months you gained a pound a week.

Your eyes are BLACK just like mine, but you look like your daddy. Your getting to be a much better eater (hence the pound a week) and breastfeeding is going well. Your a happy baby. You have a cranky period before bed, but besides that your so easy going. Good thing too, since your sister is a two year old. She loves you SOOO much. Too much if that's possible. She pretty much mauls you on a regular basis. She kisses you like a million times a day. This month wasn't great for you in that you got a cold that didn't want to leave. Allie got it from daycare and you guys passed it back and forth for at least 3 - 4 weeks straight. I blamed the cold on why you didn't want to sleep at night, but it probably had nothing to do with it. You were sleeping in the cradle in our room but didn't really like it. Most of the time you slept in bed with us cause you wanted to eat every 5 seconds....I mean 2 hours...and I was tired.

Month 3

Your really starting to fill out and get some MAJOR cheeks, let alone the rolls on your legs MY GOODNESS. It takes me an hour (at least 15 minutes or so) just to wash in between all the creases. Your finally starting to get over your cold and be happier. Your still not sleeping through the night (or even close). You intend on keeping up at the every three hour pace to ensure that those rolls on your thighs don't go anywhere anytime soon. I moved you to your crib and your sleeping better. Better meaning you may give me a 4 hour stretch occasionally. But hey it's better than every 2 hours, right? Your very vocal, babbling all the time. All I keep thinking is: Great, he's gonna be loud just like his sister, father and the rest of my family. LOL Oh well, I guess you can't escape it. It's part of being Italian, which BTW unlike your sister, no one can mistake you for anything but! LOL Your pop pop calls you Lukka like your a gangster! Speaking of nick-names your sister is the one that started people calling you Lukkie (wuukie as she says it) not me, or your father. Hopefully you grow out of that one.

Month 4

You are now officially huge! Every time I go anywhere that's all I hear. "OMG! How old is that baby? LOOK at those cheeks! How much does he weigh?? What ARE you feeding him?" Now I know how my mother felt when she had me cause apparently I was the same way when I was a baby. In case your wondering NO your still not sleeping through the night. But your getting closer and I'm getting more used to it. I started forcing you to stay awake till like 10pm so that you'll give me more consecutive hours of sleep. Cause no matter how tired I am, I still can't go to sleep before 10pm. Your father started taking the last feeding before bed giving you a formula bottle to attempt to get me to sleep earlier and to bulk you up before bed. It works, but your cranky from 8 - 10 cause your tired and hungry and just all around cranky. I will say that even though you do wake up at night that you eat and go right back out so it's not THAT bad. I can almost do it in my sleep. This month your father and I went on vacation (paid for by work, which was nice, because your dad busts his ass at work and got rewarded for it....Go figure!) It was the first time we left you or your sister for that matter for more than a day. Your grandmother (my mom) came and stayed at the house and took care of your both for 4 days! We had a great time, but missed both of you a lot. Grandma was TIRED when we got home. Both you and your sister gave her a run for her money, and that woman has at LEAST twice as much energy as I do. Considering you were mostly breastfed at the time you took 4 days of strictly bottles (mostly with formula) like a champ! Your an easy goin kid. I can just lay you on the floor or put you in the swing and you'll just hang and be cool. HOWEVER, if it's time to eat and we don't have that bottle/boob at the ready you get PISSED. That's the only time you really cry is when you don't get your food when you want it.....you don't fool around there.

Month 5

Aaaand we're current. Your about 3/4 way through your 5th month. Sometimes you sleep through the night....but usually that means you wake up at around 5am to eat and then you'll go back to sleep till 7am. Which still kinda feels like I'm waking up in the middle of the night, cause yea it's still dark out at 5am.......and your sister doesn't wake up till like 7 - 7:30. But we're getting closer. Your father and I decided to stop forcing you to stay up till 10 cause you would just make our lives hell from 8:30 - 10 cause you wanted to be sleeping. The ideal situation these days is that you go to bed around 8:30 and then sleep till like 11 or 12, and then eat again (while I'm still up) and then sleep till 7am! It happened once. But I'm still holding on for it. Actually the ideal situation is that you wake up at 11 or 12 and DADDY feeds you and then my turn comes again around 7am! But either way. I brought you to the doctor the other day and you weighed in at 20 lbs! Your new official nick name is Chunk. Or Chunky Monkey. Or goo-ga-ly-bear which is what I call you a lot. It's another movie reference.....like I said, one day you'll do it too. Your now eating solid food like a champ and getting a little more formula during the day. Still breastfeeding about 70% of the time though I'd say. You have no teeth yet, but the second THAT happens.....our feeding relationship is OVAH! You are such a Smiley Man (another nick name) and you smile at everything. Especially your sister. Now at bedtime I (or daddy) put you and her in her new big girl bed and you both just hang out in there and giggle away at nothing. It's adorable. Your not quiet sitting up yet, but you want to real bad. I'd say by next month you'll have it. Your also still not in love with Tummy time, but I'm working on it. Even still your head is still perfectly shaped. At the beginning of this month we decided that I wasn't going to go back to work so I can stay home with you and Allie. I even joined a mom's group and started planning some play dates for both of you. I really can't wait till it's spring and we can go and hang out and go to the park something I didn't get to do with Allie. We're gonna have a lot of fun.

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