This week was quite fun, but definitely busy. While we certainly kept up the routine of eat, play, sleep - tyler definitely had more awake time than he has had the past few weeks. We had a few afternoons where he happily played on the playmat for 20-30 minutes cooing and reaching for the dangling toys. In fact, he actually caught the stars dangling from the playmat (although probably not purposefully yet).
My parents arrived late in the week to stay for a long weekend, so we definitely had a full house. Austin really enjoyed having 2 grandma's in the house which he dubbed 'new grandma and old grandma'. He was also pretty fascinated by 'Pop', who clearly was the favorite grandparent. Austin frequently would check on him and offer him toys. We all piled in the van on Saturday to drive out to Austin's cousin Zoe's first birthday party. We hadn't seen them in a few months, and for the first time the two kiddos could actually interact a bit!
After tiring ourselves out at Zoe's party, what better than to have another party the next day at our house! Robin and Aleigh threw us a 'welcome baby Tyler' party instead of a 2nd baby shower. Tyler slept the entire time, but everyone loved seeing him. I think Austin thought it was a party for him because there were plenty of kids his age to play with all day. The house looked like a toy tornado hit it after everyone left, but we all had a great time and were so thankful that our friends and family could come visit and celebrate our newest addition!
The cousins!
Most of the nights were still 3 hours stretches of sleep - although he surprised us a few times with a 4-5 hour sleep. The biggest annoyance of the week was thrush. Again. We noticed Tyler's tongue was a bit white and at first didn't think anything of it. But after 2 days of that I realized that like Austin, Tyler had gotten thrush. We got a prescription from the pediatrician and are working on clearing it up. He doesn't seem to be too bothered by it, other than some fussiness while feeding. The second annoyance of the week has been his gasiness. Mostly at night, the poor kiddo gets bright red in the face and kicks and cries. The pediatrician says its normal and probably not related to my diet, but I did decide to cut down on dairy and caffeine and see if that helps him. Without the gassy fits, he's a pretty happy chill little guy!
Who, by the way, isn't so little anymore. Where did that cubby face come from?
Thankfully, the day before my parents left we remembered to get a photo with the grandparents and grandchildren.
Again, we are so thankful to have had so much help all week, and are happy to continue to host 'old grandma'. Its been really nice to get a break throughout the day and have some company now that Mike's gone back to work. Tyler seems to like having her around too!
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