WHAT A BIG BOY!!!
Holding his head up during tummy time!!!!
ROLLING OVER from front to back! This is a Team Jost exclusive, folks! Video shot just 2 minutes after the first rolling over!
Of course, now there will be no keeping him down for tummy time...
Friday, September 4, 2009
Growing Up
Mr. Jacob T. Bean slept in his nursery last night, all by himself! It was very sad for me to not have him next to my bed all night, but we both survived and had a very good night's sleep. He slept from 7:30 to 7:30, getting up only once at 5am to feed. Amazing! He usually gets up at 6 or 6:30, so that was a nice treat for his exhausted parents. Hopefully it holds. He didn't sleep in his crib - we just moved his bassinet into the other room for now. I'll move him to the crib soon, but the bassinet is still better for napping because it rocks and I can sooth him without picking him up, and I want him to sleep and nap in the same place for a few days.
His naps have been a disaster lately. He went from regularly sleeping 2-3 hours at a time to waking up EXACTLY 30 minutes after he went down. Not restful. I could tell that he was still tired and cranky, but nothing other than wearing him in the sling could persuade him to go back to sleep. Since that is not really a sustainable option, we are having to do a little "sleep training" for naps to help him get more than one sleep-cycle at a time during the day. I sneak in after he's been asleep for 25 minutes so that I'm there to gently rock the bassinet when he starts to stir. Yesterday I successfully got him to drop off again without fussing or really fully waking up. The theory is that once I can get his body used to a nap that consists of more than one sleep cycle, we can gradually stop needing to sooth him. Wish us luck. I try not to be a mom that is stuck on ideas of "Oh, my baby should be doing this and this and this because the book says so" but he was obviously not getting the rest he needed during the day, even when he was sleeping so great at night.
It's hard to really commit to the naps, not just for Jacob, but for me as well. I'm struggling with figuring out if we can still go to yoga, and lunch with friends, and to his Aunt Terri's (when mommy has a meeting) if he is taking three naps a day and still eating eight times a day. He's been very mobile up until now, but the result of that mobility seems to be a decrease in good rest. But I don't like to stay home every day! I know that there is a balance, and we're working on figuring it out. Soon I'll be working a lot more and NOT having to take him into the city with me, so he'll be able to have some consistency even when I am needing to run around.
My little boy isn't a newborn anymore! He's a whole, big baby who can't just be carted around! And he's sleeping in his own room. Wow. This is going fast.
His naps have been a disaster lately. He went from regularly sleeping 2-3 hours at a time to waking up EXACTLY 30 minutes after he went down. Not restful. I could tell that he was still tired and cranky, but nothing other than wearing him in the sling could persuade him to go back to sleep. Since that is not really a sustainable option, we are having to do a little "sleep training" for naps to help him get more than one sleep-cycle at a time during the day. I sneak in after he's been asleep for 25 minutes so that I'm there to gently rock the bassinet when he starts to stir. Yesterday I successfully got him to drop off again without fussing or really fully waking up. The theory is that once I can get his body used to a nap that consists of more than one sleep cycle, we can gradually stop needing to sooth him. Wish us luck. I try not to be a mom that is stuck on ideas of "Oh, my baby should be doing this and this and this because the book says so" but he was obviously not getting the rest he needed during the day, even when he was sleeping so great at night.
It's hard to really commit to the naps, not just for Jacob, but for me as well. I'm struggling with figuring out if we can still go to yoga, and lunch with friends, and to his Aunt Terri's (when mommy has a meeting) if he is taking three naps a day and still eating eight times a day. He's been very mobile up until now, but the result of that mobility seems to be a decrease in good rest. But I don't like to stay home every day! I know that there is a balance, and we're working on figuring it out. Soon I'll be working a lot more and NOT having to take him into the city with me, so he'll be able to have some consistency even when I am needing to run around.
My little boy isn't a newborn anymore! He's a whole, big baby who can't just be carted around! And he's sleeping in his own room. Wow. This is going fast.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Lion Shirt
We had a little photo shoot to get some pictures of Jacob in Grandma's favorite lion shirt. He has pretty much grown out of it, so there is a lot of midriff in this sequence!
After viewing these pictures, Marli said "It is kind of freakish how cute that kid is." I couldn't agree more.
After viewing these pictures, Marli said "It is kind of freakish how cute that kid is." I couldn't agree more.
Talkin
Jacob loves waking up EARLY to play. Usually, Mommy feeds him and goes back to sleep, so Daddy is in charge of morning play time. On Sunday I told Zach I would give him a dollar if he could use this time to shoot elusive footage of Jacob showing off his new "talking" skills.
Still working on some really quality smile footage. He's like a dancing frog. He'll be smiling up a storm, but as soon as I bring out the camera he is completely transfixed and only wants to stare.
Friday, August 28, 2009
Suck It!
I'm sorry I haven't been putting up more frequent posts. Now that we're getting out and about, the days are filling up and I haven't had quite as much time for sitting down and loading up pictures. What have we been doing with all our time? Here are some highlights from the last couple weeks:
Shown here doing his new favorite thing - cramming as many fingers as possible into his mouth.
- Visiting Prababcia and Prajadick (Great Grandma and Great Grandpa)
- Going to the Botanic Gardens
- Helping Mommy at the office (he's come in with me in the sling)
- Mommy and Baby yoga
- Team Jost BBQ
- Visiting Aunt Terri
- Picnic in the park with Sarah
Shown here doing his new favorite thing - cramming as many fingers as possible into his mouth.
Monday, August 24, 2009
13 weeks
This has been a huge week! Jacob was going through a growth spurt and eating constantly, which drove his Mama a little crazy, but is totally worth it. He's turning into a solid little baby! Almost overnight he has developed hand/eye coordination - he has started regularly batting at toys, and occasionally managing to grab on to them and navigate them up to his perpetually drool-filled mouth. He has started preferring his fingers (and sometimes his whole hand) to his binky and I frequently know he's up from a nap because of the "slurp, slurp, slurp" coming from his crib rather than crying. All this drooling and sucking leads me to believe that the teething process has begun, although Auntie Laura assures me that we're still a long way off from actual teeth pushing through. Which is fine with me. Also this last week, Jacob started sleeping through the night about every other night. We put him down around 8, and sometimes he wakes up at 2-3, but sometimes he stays asleep all the way til 6!!! This is great, but honestly I prefer that he wakes up once if it means he sleeps until 7 instead of 6. I am just not ready to start my day that early.
As you can see from the pictures, he is smiling lots and lot now. I think that Jacob has really caught up on a lot of developmental stuff that he was kind of slow to reach at first. The only thing he is still struggling with is his tummy time. Doesn't truck with it. He can lift his head up and push his arms up when he is on his Boppy, but doesn't like to do it when he's on a flat surface. He would much rather take the opportunity to suck on his hand a little more and drool all over whatever he is laying on.
If you click on the album and open it up in Picasa, you'll see that some of these are videos. Enjoy!
As you can see from the pictures, he is smiling lots and lot now. I think that Jacob has really caught up on a lot of developmental stuff that he was kind of slow to reach at first. The only thing he is still struggling with is his tummy time. Doesn't truck with it. He can lift his head up and push his arms up when he is on his Boppy, but doesn't like to do it when he's on a flat surface. He would much rather take the opportunity to suck on his hand a little more and drool all over whatever he is laying on.
If you click on the album and open it up in Picasa, you'll see that some of these are videos. Enjoy!
Sunday, August 23, 2009
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