Smiles!

Baby Peter started smiling the day he turned four weeks old but it was hit and miss for the most part, although Aunt Olivia could ALWAYS get a smile out of him. Now he smiles whenever you look at him and talk to him. It is so fun to see him happy since there has been a lot of grumpy times with this little guy.

The first smile caught on camera! Thanks Grandpa Sundwall!

Peter got pretty grumpy starting at two weeks old after some feedings and developed a VERY grumpy time between 7:00-11:00pm where we can hardly get him to calm down and definitely can't get him to sleep. I thought he might be a little colic but didn't think much of it. While in San Diego things got worse, which makes sense considering he was around six weeks and that is when fussiness usually peaks--plus we were out of our normal routine. With some encouragement from Pete's dad I decided to take him to the pediatrician to be seen for possible reflux. Since he never spit up and only thew up a couple times after feedings I didn't even think it was a possibility. But apparently they can have reflux without the spitting up. 

So he has been on a low dose of the medication and I have seen a big difference in his happiness! He allows me to set him down a little more (although still not real often) and he seems less uncomfortable overall. He still has a fussy time in the evening but Pete and I are figuring out how to tag-team during that time which makes it more bearable.

We love this kid, despite his fussiness and we are so glad to see him happier!

Smiling at Olivia

Matchy matchy with mom! (It was unintentional. I must have just been feeling yellow that day!)

Little Man

A few things about this little guy in his first few weeks of life.

Poor guy is always wrapped in or surrounded by pink! That is what you get when you have a big sister.

-he is noisy! He eats noisy and sleeps noisy and just likes to make a lot of noise. I guess he wants to make sure we know he's here. He makes this funny noise that sounds like a goat! When you are holding him and he is kinda drowsy or asleep and you jostle him from movement he will make a little "baa" sound, it's my favorite!
-he is stinky! He has some really bad gas that makes him upset and it is kinda sad to watch but crazy that such a little thing can be so smelly.
-sleeps not so great at night. I think the gas has been waking him up but he has done a couple longer stretches (like 5 hours) on occasion. Otherwise it's about 1.5-2 hour stretches, 3 if i'm lucky.
-loves to be held and wakes up if you set him down unless he really is in deep sleep.
-is grumpiest and wide awake from about 9-11 pm every night which is funny because the last few weeks of my pregnancy he used to move around in my belly in positions that made me cry out in pain! I love when they keep habits from the womb, it's just a reminder that it was this same little person that was inside me! I just wish he had kept a different habit :/.
-we are getting the hang of nursing although sometimes I feel that he is regressing. With Afton I felt a lot more worried about schedules and things but since we are home most of the time I just go with the flow and feed him "on demand".
-I tend to call him baby brother because I am usually talking to Afton about him throughout the day. When Pete talks to him he says "little man" which Afton has picked up on so she will go over to him and say "You OK Little Man?"

I have a similar picture of Afton and Peter like this when she was a few weeks old.

Tolerating bath time and cracking us up!

After bath hair

Fell asleep during tummy time