Update...

The past three weekends have been quite busy and Leyton is quickly acquiring long distance travel miles on his car seat. The first weekend we spent Sunday in Waco visiting and playing with family (my cousin and her husband, my "niece" and my aunt), the next weekend was spent in Georgetown for my other cousins' birthday celebration and wedding shower and last weekend we had family in town for the annual Justin fish fry that my Grandpa is a big part of. Leyton did really well with the traveling-I had the infant tylenol ready-"just in case"-but never had to use it.

On the road again....

Leyton, Granna and I at the wedding shower.

Leyton also had his 2 month appointment last week and got 2 shots (breaks my heart when they give them to him). His stats are: Weight: 10lbs 8oz. (25 %); Height: 23 1/4" (45%). At his appointment we discussed the progress of his reflux (which had gotten alot better) and decided to slowly decrease the Zantac and add cereal to his bottle and see if we could get him off the medication. So far...no such luck! He doesn't like the cereal and won't take the full bottle when we give it to him and at times he will also have the painful spurts when eating and can't even finish the bottle even though he wants to. This past week he has been fighting going to sleep as well (at night and in the day). We had a good bedtime routine going (bottle, bath, bed by 8:00) until this week and now he will not go to sleep until after 10:00 and in the day he will only take a 10-15 min catnap. So now I have decided to go back to giving him Zantac 3 times a day to see if that will put him back to "normal". I will give it until Monday and go from there. Poor baby....

The lack of sleep and pain doesn't seem to be bothering him too much because he continues to smile and laugh and "talk" all the time and not just at us...at the ceiling fan, his crib bumper, the cats, the lights, etc. He is extremely alert and holding his head up on his own and can't seem to take it all in-there is too much to look at. Now he is starting to get a personality and it is getting more fun.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!

2 Months Old Today

Today my baby is 2 months old and it is soo hard to believe how much he has changed in such a short time. Once again, we had our friend and photographer, Arlene, take Leyton's pictures. Below is just 1 of the many great photos-she is the best!!! She also took pictures of him in his Halloween costume-a sock monkey. Enjoy!
















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Smiley

Leyton has been smiling, "talking" and laughing (in the form of a fake cough) lately and every time we tried to get him on video he wouldn't do anything. Finally, we were able to catch him and he put on a good show.

Back to the Drawing Board...

So Leyton's heartburn has yet to get better so we took him back to the Dr. yesterday. We are now going to give the Zantac more time to work, are adding 1/2 tsp of mylanta to our feedings and are switching over to the "Gold" formula (gold b/c it's pricey). The formula stinks really bad and he makes a face every time he starts to eat-but we have no other options right now. If he doesn't get better by Monday we are suppose to go back to the Dr-we are keeping our fingers crossed. On a better note (for him not me) Leyton is officially sleeping in his crib as of Monday night. He wasn't sleeping very well in the bassinet we have in our room and when we spend the night at Granna's he sleeps in the crib and sleeps well at that. He also takes naps in his crib-so reluctantly we put him in it for the night (I made multiple trips to his room for my comfort) and turned up the monitor up loud and he did well.

Chunky Monkey

Last Sunday and Monday, Leyton started getting really fussy and would draw up his legs, arch his back and cry when taking his bottle. He also started fighting going to sleep-which became a 1-2 hour process. This is not typical of him, so I called the doctor thinking he was having tummy aches/gas. Our next appt. (2 months) wasn't until Oct 22, so they scheduled us to go in on Wed. Out of that appointment we discovered that he now weighs 10lbs, is 22 1/4" long and has heartburn/reflux. The doctor told us to start adding rice cereal to his bottles and prescribed him Zantac in liquid form. If these don't work, then we will have to switch to a different formula (which is quite expensive-last resort). Adding cereal to the formula will typically keep the baby fuller for longer which can also mean sleeping longer at night. That doesn't exactly seem to be the case with Leyton. He is still taking his bottle every 3-3 1/2 hours, will sleep about 4 hours the first part of the night and then returns to his waking every 3 and is quickly putting on the weight. He is getting to be a chunky monkey and should soon be able to fit into his 0-3 month clothes :) Today I have seemed to notice his feedings are getting better and his fussiness decreasing; if he doesn't seem to get better by tomorrow we are calling the Dr-but so far it looks good.

Aside from that little issue he is growing like a weed and gaining more personality daily. He lost most of his hair on the top of his head and now it is starting to come back in while the sides are starting to fall out. His hair has also lightened up quite a bit but is getting longer in the back. He has started "talking" more instead of grunting and is very alert. He likes to listen to music while laying in the floor with us and playing with toys or being read or talked to and kicking his legs constantly. He is also making alot more facial expressions and smiling-which is not due to gas (thank you very much Dr. Robert :)). He still likes to snuggle when sleeping and we have been letting him nap on his tummy. He is so much fun and such a blessing and we are enjoying every minute of parenthood!!!