Hard to believe, but Isaac had his four month check up Friday afternoon, and once again received a clean bill of health. He weighed in at a whopping 17 pounds (85th%) and measured 26 inches long (85th%). He got another round of shots too, which was absolutely no fun at all. He was a trooper though. Once again I just nursed him right afterwards and he went to sleep. The bummer this time was that he was definitely feeling pretty crummy the next day. All day Saturday he had a mild fever reaction to the shots...so he was a little fussy and just not his normal perky self. He was a little more chipper today though.
In other news, he's been at an in-home daycare a few blocks from my school since the school year started back up. So far he's been doing really well there. He's eating a TON (8 oz. of breastmilk) every three hours or so....so I've had to be diligent with my pumping schedule at school to keep up with his supply. The good thing is that his doctor recommended starting him on solid foods in about a month, so I'll be able to supplement the breastmilk a little once he starts that. He's not napping for very long over there either, but he's not taking long naps for us at home either anymore. He hasn't really napped for a long time (2-3 hours) since his 3 month growth spurt. However, the plus side to him not sleeping so much during the day is that he sleeps great at night. He goes down around 7:30 or 8 at night, wakes to eat usually once around 3am, goes right back to sleep, and sleeps until I wake him up at 6am to feed him and take him to daycare.
Just for fun I decided to get a couple sippy cups for him to play with and get used to by the time it's time for him to transition from bottles to sippy cups...which is still months off, or so I thought! I handed it to him, and he immediately tried to put it in his mouth! He may be ready sooner than we thought!
I tried to get a good pic of him sucking on the sippy cup, but he kept moving, so this was as good as it gets.
Here's another pic of our Longhorn in training! :)In other news, he's been at an in-home daycare a few blocks from my school since the school year started back up. So far he's been doing really well there. He's eating a TON (8 oz. of breastmilk) every three hours or so....so I've had to be diligent with my pumping schedule at school to keep up with his supply. The good thing is that his doctor recommended starting him on solid foods in about a month, so I'll be able to supplement the breastmilk a little once he starts that. He's not napping for very long over there either, but he's not taking long naps for us at home either anymore. He hasn't really napped for a long time (2-3 hours) since his 3 month growth spurt. However, the plus side to him not sleeping so much during the day is that he sleeps great at night. He goes down around 7:30 or 8 at night, wakes to eat usually once around 3am, goes right back to sleep, and sleeps until I wake him up at 6am to feed him and take him to daycare.
Just for fun I decided to get a couple sippy cups for him to play with and get used to by the time it's time for him to transition from bottles to sippy cups...which is still months off, or so I thought! I handed it to him, and he immediately tried to put it in his mouth! He may be ready sooner than we thought!
I tried to get a good pic of him sucking on the sippy cup, but he kept moving, so this was as good as it gets.
Everything else is going pretty well. I started school on August 26th, and currently have 16 students. This is the MAGIC number for a class, so hopefully I won't get too many more students. It's so easy to divide them into groups of 4! My girls are really sweet, and the boys are, well, five year old boys. :) I just stick a girl between them in line, and we're usually pretty good to go. :)
We had fun watching college football this weekend, and even went over to the Bockus' to watch the OU game with them...don't worry...we were decked out in our orange! Pics of that to come!
