20 weeks!

Happy 20 weeks to our favorite little guy!

Ryan, 20 weeks old!!

This past week has been VERY eventful and we've reached a couple of milestones!  I've been off work this past week (and last week too!  Hooray for trackout and vacation time!) and I'm SO glad that I've been at home to witness and experience these milestones!

Milestone 1--Ryan can now sit up on his own.  Granted, he can't get to this position without assistance, but he can stay in this position for a pretty long time:

These were taken on my phone, so they're kind of blurry.  Ryan is a little unsteady, but he's balancing pretty well overall!  We usually don't let him sit like this after a feeding because he usually ends up spitting up after awhile.  But he's getting close to getting into this position all on his own.  He's always trying to sit up when we hold him like a baby or when we're playing with him on the floor.  He tries so hard!!


Milestone 2--Ryan also got his first taste of rice cereal this past week.  The jury is still out as to whether or not he really likes it.  He eats it, but not without a couple of "ew" faces.  He made such a mess with it though!  The first day, he couldn't figure out what he was supposed to do with it and most of it ended up on his face and on his shirt.  The second day, pretty much the same thing happened.  But on the third day, he began to take it a little better and I think he actually got a couple of spoonfuls down! On the fourth day, we felt we had a process down and he actually began to eat it!  Watch and see!

It was a good feeding--more went into his mouth/belly than ended up on his face and shirt!  Progress!  We have some good pictures of his first few feedings, and I'll upload those soon (hopefully).

Milestone 3--Ryan slept more than 8 hours in a row this past week!  Sleep training has gone pretty well this past week (minus one or two nights).  Ryan has pretty consistently slept from 9pm until 5am without having a middle-of-the-night feeding and with needing only one or two soothings when he wakes up in the middle of the night.  Joe's been very pleased with this as well, because it means uninterrupted sleep for him again!  However, a new problem has emerged.  Once I feed him at around 5am, he will wake up again anywhere between 6:30-7:00 and either 1) want to feed again  or 2) want to be up for the day.  So far, I've mostly been feeding him again--which makes me question whether or not he's getting enough at his 5am feeding--but I'm not sure what I'm going to do when I return to work!  But either way, this is a wonderful wonderful wonderful problem to have, instead of waking up 4, 5, or even 6 times throughout the night to feed Ryan or to soothe him.  We are SO proud of him!! 


We've finally ordered a crib, which should be arriving soon, so our little guy is moving into his first REAL bed!  We've noticed that sometimes when Joe goes in to soothe Ryan, he has completely turned perpendicular in the cosleeper, so his feet are sticking up in the air.  We're excited that we're moving him to a bigger bed!