Someone kidnapped my sweet, sleepy baby with perfect skin and a huge appetite and replaced him with this fussy monkey.
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| Stink eye. |
Poor baby's face broke out this week and his head is looking a bit cradle-cappy. We've been playing the eat-for-5-minutes, pull-off-&-refuse-to-finish, then scream-that-we're-starving-an-hour-later game for the last couple of days, too. And his latest trick is to bawl every time he poops or farts, which is several times an hour when he's gassy (meaning he only sleeps for a few minutes at a time for a good part of the day or night).
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| Settling down for a minute with dad. |
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| Equipment needed for the most successful nap today: 1 straightjacket (a.k.a. swaddling blanket), 1 binky to repeatedly spit out, 1 giraffe white-noise machine cranked up all the way, 1 swing, and 2 16-oz cans to slow down the swing to the speed the howler monkey likes. |
We have discovered, though, that the monkey loves bathtime. Even if he's screaming himself purple, he settles right down as soon as his tushie hits the water. We've been pretty successful mess-wise so far: The whale towel took quite the pooping-on, and he peed all over his hippo towel today (you'd think mom would learn her lesson and diaper the kid faster!), but no in-the-bath blowouts yet.
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| A little dazed and confused at first... |
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| ...but happy as a clam once he's good and wet! (Sorry, the camera got steamed...er, it's got a modesty filter.) |
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| Screaming his face off again as soon as he got out. Silly boy. |
Of course, to be fair, I should also mention that the few times when he's awake and deciding to be charming, he's working on an awfully cute smile.
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| Working up to it... |
I guess we'll keep him around after all.
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| "More food please, Mom!" |
He is so ridiculously cute! I love that last picture. And don't worry, the extremely fussy stage is a lot like morning sickness and labor; once it's over, you forget how bad it was and can only remember the good parts. That's why people have more than one :P. The modesty filter is hilarious too :).
ReplyDeleteHe's such a cutie! Tip: Aquaphor worked wonders for janie's acne.
ReplyDeleteJessica: Really? Awesome! I'm pretty sure we have one of those little sample tubes somewhere. Hmm. Allie: Yeah, that last picture makes me laugh...it's like he's saying, "Who, me? Fussy? Never!"
ReplyDeleteI love that you stick cans of food in the swing with him, haha! And this goes without saying, but he's ridiculously cute.
ReplyDeleteHe's so adorable! I hope I have a little boy as cute as he is. And my favorite picture is the one where he looks like a pirate "Yarr". :) And if he's really gassy Naomi always loved belly massages with a teeny bit of oil. Colin's mom (who works in the NICU at McKay-Dee suggested it. We found a tutorial online). Good luck with the fuss monkey! At least he likes bath time! A lot of kids hate it till they can be covered in the water.
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