Discovery at Four Months

Yes! He is four months old already!    And he is getting more and more curious about his environment. He bats at things that he is looking at, pulls his clothes and burp cloths into his mouth, and even reaches the floor on tip toes in his jumperoo!     Diaper time is play time too!     This baby einstein sleeper is genius! He loves to look at the toes - especially the puppy one.     (Yes, I know there is a recall on the bumbo seat! I only use it when he is 100% supervised as the instructions say! The recall is in effect because people left their kids unattended in the seat on a counter or table and they wiggled out and hurt themselves. So, if I want, they will send me a new warning sticker to remind me not to set him on a raised surface in it - or use it as a car seat... ridiculous thing to do, if you ask me!)

New Baby Straightjacket and other violence...

I don't know how parents deal with being woken up at night all the time! Donny sleeps a solid 11-13 hour night usually. Not last night. Last night he managed to figure out how to explode out of his old swaddler. At 1 am he woke me up crying (he doesn't sleep well when he is not tied down!) I re-swaddled, figuring he just didn't get fastened up tight enough. No such luck... 1:45 am - he woke me up again. Out of the swaddler again. And 2:30. And 3:00. And 3:45. So... I carried him out to the living room and held him while we both got two much needed hours of sleep... then at 5:45 Andy swaddled him really tight in the swaddler and our biggest recieving blanket before he went to work. I was shocked when we turned on the light and saw what he had done to his forehead one of those times he wiggled free from his swaddling. He looks a bit like I dropped him forehead first on the sidewalk!    Donny and I both slept soundly until 8:00. When, you guessed it! He found his way out again!    Right after I fed him (and trimmed those finger nails) I raided our linen closet and found an old flannel sheet that I haven't used in years and cut it down to the right size to swaddle our not so little man.   I'm not sure why he likes it so much. At almost four months, he is past the age that most babies stop sleeping well in a straightjacket... but maybe he takes after both parents who like to wrap themselves up in a mummy bag like state to sleep every night. For now, he is happily napping in his swaddler and new sheet-blanket... looking like a kid who's taken a big spill off his bike. More fun!

My Spitter and Me!

Here we are at rehearsals for You're a Good Man Charlie Brown. Donny loves the activity of so many kids running, dancing and singing... I love break time when I get to hold him!

 

Where did you go? Part 2

Okay, Now for Donny pictures!

Over the past couple of weeks he has stopped smiling for the camera. Or looking at it much.... he will be smiling away and talking to me, and then I put the camera in front of my face and he looks away and stops smiling. He can't find the source of his smiles, so he moves on! As evidenced below!
   

When we do get him looking at the camera, the smile has faded:

   

Here he is hanging out with Daddy sitting in his own grown up chair (though it is a really uncomfortable chair for grown ups!)

    

The moments I will always treasure come in those quiet spontaneous naps. Me, holding him, breathing in his scent (as vile as spit up smells, I still love it!), catching up on missed sleep in the middle of a Sunday afternoon.

 

Where did you go?

I think I should change the name of my blog to "Donny Unlimited" or something! You'd think that I don't do anything else now but take pictures of my little man! The truth is that I do have another life that is all theater all the time... but I don't really document that in photos.

I just finished casting my current show "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown" which will go up the first and second weekend of December. That is going to be a lot of fun. I am really pleased with my cast.

We also just finished with our big fundraiser for the year. We raised over 75K this year! What a blessing that is! I have been very busy with budgeting, planning, training, hiring, etc.... for the growth that our company has had over the last year.

Oh, and I turned 35. Wow! I still feel 25....

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