Pollywog

Over the weekend we took little Lukas to the pool for the first time.  So far he loves the water just like big brother!

Charlie is getting better and better with his swimming and can swim a few yards all by himself.  It won't be long until he is swimming across the pool!

2 months!!

Can a guy get some help around here?!

Lukas says, "Oh brother..." (as he rolls his eyes)

Mom or Dad?

Here is the mom and dad comparison.  I think he is a good mix, but think Daddy definitely has the edge right now...

Who do you think?  You can click the pictures to enlarge them.

                                       Mom                                          Lukas

                                               Dad                                Lukas

                                              Mom                                  Lukas

                                             Dad                                         Lukas

       

Look Alikes?

You can tell they fell from the same tree!!  Don't they have great smiles!?!

Lukas at 7 weeks...

Charlie at around the same age...

All Smiles

Play mates

Charlie loves sharing all of his trucks with Lukas and playing with him under the baby floor gym.  I think Charlie plays with it more than Lukas does; he'll play with it even when baby brother isn't there. And, as you can see, Charlie uses it as a garage (what a boy).

Friar Tuck

Fast forward about 60 years and this might be what Lukas will be looking at in the mirror.

"Begin with the end in mind."  Stephen Covey

Strong boy

Lukas seems to enjoy tummy time!  During it, he has been practicing his neck strength.  He can pick his head up enough to turn it from one cheek to another.

Sleeping Equation

Swaddle + Soothing Sound + Sucking = SLEEP

Lukas is turning out to be a great sleeper.  We had a few days of short naps where he was waking up about 45 minutes into it and we thought we were doomed in the sleep department.  Some naps we can get him back down to sleep and others he wants nothing to do with sleeping (eating is all that is on his mind).  We discovered that he was having a growth spurt earlier this week, eating every two hours (exhausting!).  That seems to be over and he has settled back into his 2 1/2 to 3 hour intervals during the day.

After eating he has a little bit of wake time and then like clockwork he starts to whimper a little bit, signaling to us he wants to go to bed.  We swaddle him, give him his pacifier and turn on his white noise machine.  Works like a charm.  Occasionally the pacifier falls out and we need to go in to give it back to him, but sometimes he has been able to fall asleep without it.   When he is a bit more worked up and fighting going to sleep, we pull out the big guns - the hairdryer.  The higher pitch of the hairdryer works almost instantly to calm him down.

For those of you who know, we are doing the Baby Wise sleep/eating schedule which helps get into more predictable sleep cycles and helps with sleeping through the night early.  It worked with Charlie and it is working with Lukas as well.  For the first four weeks you have to wake the baby up at night, not letting him go more than five hours before you need to feed again.  When I tell people we are doing that they think we're crazy!  But finally, at five weeks we were able to let him sleep longer.  And he settled right into the routine.  We have now had four days in a row of sleeping through the night, even in the middle of his growth spurt.  I hope this keeps up; I have a lot of sleep to catch up on.

Artist at Work

It started out innocently enough...

 

But by the end, I was a true artist at work!

Cheers

It's a beautiful day today...why not smile!?!

All about me at 1 month:

• I like to coo
• I like to poo
• I like short naps (especially on days I am extra hungry)
• I like to sleep through the night (mommy says she likes this one too)
• I love my big brother because he loves me too

Skate Park

Hit the skate park with best bud Sammy...Charlie really flies on the bike now.  He had a few wipe outs from trying to go up on the wall, but didn't cry once.