15 weeks...almost

So I lost track of how many weeks old Alden is, and had to go back to the calendar.  It's such a simple thing, counting how many weeks out since he was born, but I still have an insecurity that maybe I did it wrong.  I don't know.  First time mom guilt. 

Anyway, this is going to be a big week of meeting family for Alden.  He met my Aunt Maurie Anne this week when she came through and she loved on him while I was at school.  (THANK YOU!!)  Later this week we're going to take him up to PA to meet Greg's extended family (and immediate family!) for his grandma's 90th birthday.  Alden gets to meet his great-grandma!!    Greg's cousin has a little boy Alden's age and I'm super excited for the "cousins" to meet.  :-)  Hopefully she'll let me post a picture of them together for you to see.

Last week I discovered that I wanted a certain kind of high chair that was very expensive.  Of course.  I spent a few days on Craig's List and found it for 20% of the price of a new one.  SCORE!!  This transformer high chair is so cool, and Alden seems to like it too.  (I don't know, maybe he'd like any one, but I am super pleased with this and feel very proud of myself for finding it.)  I'm not sure when we'll start him on food (AVOCADOs, according to both of my mothers, independently of each other) but it's not yet.  I do love having him at this height to talk to while I make dinner.  He seems quite pleased to watch and talk back too.  Except when Daddy comes in and steals the show.  Then Alden has eyes for only him.  :-)

We've been working on tummy time as I've read that several of my friend's babies who are younger than Alden are turning themselves over.  Alden has done this once, but not again that I know of...  He's not a huge fan of tummy time so I'll take any advice I can get.  (He likes to be propped up, but then he can't turn over.)  Anyway, I tried today, but he doesn't sleep very well at day care so a few minutes later here he is...

Fast asleep on the carpet.

Which brings me to my next point... he's sleeping 12 hours at night!!! (Well, 2 nights in a row.)  Crazy.  I don't honestly like it because I barely get to see him.  I pick him up from day care at 4:30 and he's asleep by 6, 6:30 at the latest.  [[I used to be so surprised that my students stay up until 10, but I kinda understand it now because I want to spend time with Alden and kinda wanna keep him up to do it.  But rest assured, I don't.]]



And, here's a picture of our little one in 6 month clothes.  At 14 weeks.  (3 months, 2 weeks old.)  SIX MONTH CLOTHES!!!!  (I really wish baby clothes were done by weight, the 6 mo label on my 3 mo old makes me... I don't know... feel like something is wrong.)




We have a really pleasant kid and he's smiles mostly, but just so that we're sharing all sides of our experiences.... we do see this face too.  But really... he's still soooooo cute!!