Postcards from the CoHo: January 2010

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Captain Obvious Reports: Babies Grow Fast

It's been a while since Captain Obvious paid a visit to this blog, so today I'd like to talk about how babies grow out of things ridiculously fast.

I was comfortable with Agustin growing out of his preemie clothes, but then he grew out of newborn sizes, and I was like, hey, HEY, I LIKED THAT OUTFIT! And you wore it THREE TIMES!

People warn you that this will happen, but it really is amazing to see it with your own eyes. Now he's on the cusp of growing out of his 0-3 months sizes, and really, he can wear the 3-6 months just fine now. In fact, I've started dressing him in those so that we can have more time in them. And I only buy things that are two sizes up from what he currently wears.

I shouldn't have done this on a white background, but you might be able to see that there's about an inch gap where the ID bracelet he wore in the hospital won't close. It's so hard to believe that he was that small and that he's this big now.

A couple of weeks ago, I got an email from one of the baby sites that he should be starting to roll over any time now (according to his gestational age--I never changed my due date so that I can see what his adjusted milestones are). I kind of started worrying because I hadn't seen him do it yet. Honestly he hasn't had much tummy time lately because my boy who LOVED tummy time suddenly stopped liking it and we've been so on-the-go lately that he's been in carseats and carriers and dandled in our laps at restaurants and on planes and trains. He loves to "stand" and push with his legs and arms; he just wasn't rolling over. But then he did twice yesterday (tummy to back) and some more today.

This is the co-sleeper he naps in. When he first came home, we could almost turn him sideways in it (when he was all scrunched up).
As you can see, we are close to outgrowing this too.

I posted that video of him batting at the fish because before then he would just stare at it and not realize that he might be able to touch it. Now when he wants to touch it, he reaches up and touches it. No more batting. He's also started to figure out that he can use those hands to bring stuff to his mouth. Good times.

Whassup, dudes. Yeah, I'm gettin' all big and stuff.

With him being born early, I felt like the up-side was that I got some extra baby time. And I did get a longer newborn period, but now he's developing at a regular pace, and every week he does something new.

Adam and Agustin discuss economic policy.

At his last checkup, he weighed about 11lbs, and we found a scale at the hotel we were in last week, and he's now over 12lbs. He's still on the small side for his adjusted age--his weight is in the 25th percentile, but he's up from the 10th percentile at birth.

Adam suggested as we were driving that we should start thinking about baby proofing, and I was like, that's crazy talk. I have a little baby. But truth be told, he's already starting to get around. Last night we had him in bed between us and the human magnet managed to scoot himself over to dad. Then he positioned himself diagonally so that his head was on me and his feet were on dad.

Must. Enjoy. Every. Moment.

Monday, January 11, 2010

Tasmania

If you mention Tasmania to Australians, their eyes light up and with a tone of reverence they'll tell you that Tasmania is beautiful. We can see why.

[This link goes to the full album--I'll be posting subsets in more bite-ized chunks when we get home.]