Ok I will spare you the typical opening line on these monthly updates, but really?!
We think he is about 20 pounds and 27 inches! That's our guess since he dosen't have a doctors appt this month.
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| My BIG boy! |
Ezekiel James is continue to grow and change everyday! He is developing into his personality and may I say, he is a spiting image of his father! LOL! Which I guess I shouldn't be surprised about, but I am not sure if I am ready for him to be growing so fast because one "Mike" is more than I can handle right now ;-p
Zeke has a smile and laugh that will make your day and melt your heart!
He LOVES his to be naked!
So from about 7-8 every night is diaper hang out time! He will just sit and talk and giggle and grab his feet, its SO fun! Then its bath time and he is continuing to love his baths and he is starting to kick and splash and play with his toys! It's so fun to watch him!
He has really started to take notice of the puppies and will watch them and "pet" them. And I love it because Jaxon has really been warming up to Z a lot over the past couple of months. He will lay or sit by him, bring him a toy, check on him when he starts to fuss. I am excited to see how they bond over the coming years, bc I can see it starting to happen already! And Brodie continues to "guard" Zeke for us, he is such a good boy! I just love them all! So we started something new, which I stole an idea from the Wind family. We have Z hold a treat in his hand and let them puppies eat it, what better way to get a dog to like someone! lol! That's the way to Jaxon & Brodie's heart! But really as the dogs see Zeke as a provider to them like we are to them, they will continue to love him and learn that he is important in our house too!
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| My boys! |
Zeke has started to do this...
though he is still very wobbley. But he does hang out there for a few seconds all by himself!
And a lot of times we do this...
when we are at the store! Which will b the case moving forward here soon as he is almost grown out of his infant car seat and we will be upgrading to the next car seat soon!
A couple weeks ago we went to the Kalahari in Wisconsin Dells, we had a leadership conference there for the weekend. So we had a babysitter come with us to watch Zeke while we were in our meetings and then we took him swimming for the first time! At first he didn't know what to think of it...
But then he figured out that it was like a big bath!
And he just LOVED it! I think he was in this water jumperoo for like a half an hour!
And then...
He totally and completely crashed!
So I know he was totally exhausted after all of his swimming because he is such a people person, so he usually doesn't sleep when people are around!
He is still protesting rolling over for the most part, though he did it last night again. But I think it will come again soon! He is also showing signs of starting to army crawl, not sure if I am ready for him to be mobile yet! He continues to love his jumper and his curtians too, of course! He is really starting to get the hang of sleeping through the night again, thank goodness! In the last week or so we have had more wakeless nights than we have had wake ups! But if he does wake up its just once and I feed him and normally he goes right back down. Though there are a few times where he has been a party animal and been up for a couple hours, but that is pretty rare! We are starting to get back into a routine, well atleast in the mornings, which is wonderful! He will usually wake up at 6 am and then I will feed him and he will go back down until 8:30 am and then he will wake up and we will hang out until about 9:30 or 10ish and he will go back down for a good 2- 3 hour nap!
He still eats about every 2 hours and still exclusively gets breastmilk. Like I said before his doctor said that they new recommendations are for babies to stay on breastmilk or formula until 6 months. So I am in no hurry to get him on solids as he is still CLEARLY growing and is satisfied with breastmilk. Though I can tell he will be ready for solids when we start him because he watches us eat and even tries to grab for our food sometimes. But that will come soon enough, which means I need to get my booty in gear bc I want to make a bunch of his food!
We are hosting our first Thanksgiving tomorrow! I am so excited! We are having my parents, my unclebrother, sister in law, and nephew (and hunny!), my uncle, and Steph's dad! I was super nervous about cooking my first turkey so we were looking into getting a fryer, bc I have heard it is super yummy, so we ended up getting an infared fryer! It seems pretty fool proof and if it is anything like our infared grill they turkey should b amazing!
Then later on in the day we are heading over to Mike's cousin's in Roseville for dinner with his aunts, uncles, and cousins! It will be fun to bring Zeke there and for him to see everyone again! It will be a busy day, so I am hoping he naps well so he is a good boy all day! And I need to remember to take lots of pictures!
Hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving with your family and friends! We have had such an amazing year and we truly have so much to be thankful for! We are so blessed! To all of our family out there that we will not see on Thanksgiving...we miss you and love you all and can't wait to see you again soon!
