Too cute to ignore

He's graduated to the next size of clothes now (3-6 months) and is sporting a striped onesie from a HeartChange friend. Thank you!

Dedication

Squeakums had his baby dedication at our church in Homer this Sunday, two days before he turned 3 months. Two other friends dedicated their babies as well.
He has discovered his fists recently and chews on them. He tries sucking his thumb with forefinger, but it usually turns into a full fist...or two fists.

We continue the diaper free work, though he's still fully in diapers. The first day was amazing as you read before. But that was followed by some very unsuccessful days. I get tired of holding him over the bucket when it takes him a long time to do his business. So we're ordering a plastic baby potty that he can atleast sit on. I'll just have to keep him upright with my legs or hands. Not sure how well it'll work, since he tends to arch and kick and cry sometimes when he feels the urge to go.

He's finally sleeping longer at night. He's been gaining about half an hour each night the last few nights. Last night I had 6 1/2 hours between feeds! That was the longest ever. I hear it's called "sleeping through the night" when he hits 7 hours. Perhaps tonight. BearHunter doesn't even wake up to his moans or cries anymore until I've got him already on the changing table and his volume has increased dramatically. Guess I'm the lighter sleeper.

Diaper Free

Squeakums is cute still. He's getting more responsive with smiles and almost laughter to us. He is cooing most days and that's a blast to "talk" with him. He's 10 weeks old and weighs 12 pounds 8 ounces. They rechecked his hearing and he passed (again).

I've also begun a diaper free attempt. I read the book Diaper Free. And have been watching his elimination patterns, for schedules, verbal or body lanuage signs, etc. for a few weeks. Sometimes I'd lay him on a towel and just keep an eye out for when he went. Whenever I'd catch him going #1 or #2 I'd make a specific sound (psssss or grrrrrr). Within the last week or so he began having relatively dry nights and not pooping in every diaper. He does a big poop sometimes once a day or a whole bunch one day. Yesterday his big one was at 9:30am while feeding him. This morning he didn't go while feeding so I put him over a sitz bathtub and urged him to go by saying grrrrrr and making a grunting kind of sound. And he went a big one! I was so amazed. And then he peed in the tub as well. Wow! It worked. Throughout the rest of the day I got him to pee 6 times in the tub and to poop 4 times. It makes the whole process seem easy to have such a successful day. I keep him in diapers still. But I use FAR FEWER this way. And it's kind of fun and exciting. :)