Little brother

3 1/2 months

It's hard keeping up with a blog now that we have two of the little munchkins around.  We feel a little guilty about not starting one for DT, but there's only so much that we can do when we're both working full time.  It is so true that the second child doesn't have nearly as many baby pictures as the oldest.

DT is 5 months old now.  He just very recently started sleeping through the night.  We had to do the dreaded sleep training with him, but it was relatively painless.  We had to do it for our sanity.  He was waking up every 1.5-2.5 hours at night to eat, and he wasn't eating as much as he should during the day.  It took 1 hour and 15 minutes of crying at 2am the first night before he fell back asleep.  The second night he woke up again in the wee hours, but he cried for only a few minutes before going back to sleep.  He's been sleeping through the night since then.

He's looking pretty chubby these days, but he's actually smaller than Junior was at this stage.

4 months

DT seems more relaxed that Jr was.  DT is still sleeping calmly in his bassinet at 5 months, whereas Jr moved out by 3 months because he was shaking the bassinet so much with his kicking.   DT exercises his legs in other ways though.  He enjoys standing and jumping while you hold him in your lap.

4 1/2 months

We started solids a little early with DT.  Before he turned 5 months old, he started watching very intently as we ate dinner.  He would even start moving his mouth as he watched us chew.
Here's a video of DT's first experience with solids.  He's not yet 5 months old here.  Notice Mr. Cranky Pants Junior in the background. 

He screams pretty loud this one.  Here he is rolling over at almost 5 months.  He needs to use his voice to get the extra boost to complete the task.

Make new friends

First day!

On the way to his first day of daycare.

Mommy went back to work last month, so we enrolled Junior into daycare a few weeks before her start date.  The first day went pretty smoothly.  The second day was anything but smooth.  He realized that he was going away for the whole day, and he did not like that idea.  The first 2 days he refused to take a nap.  The third day we let him go with his blanket, so he was able to take a nap without too much trouble.  Eventually after about a week or so, he decided he liked going to daycare.  After he got home in the afternoon though, he seemed very cranky.  We finally realized that he was just really hungry.  The daycare says he eats all his food, but when they ask him if he wants more, he always says no.   They didn't realize that he eats as much as an adult.  He probably doesn't ask for seconds, because he wants to hurry up and go play.  Now we try to feed him a snack as soon as he gets home, and that seems to help calm the cranky monster.

More yogurt please.

Every once in a while he will come back with some art project that he made.  One of the first ones he brought back was a little pumpkin drawing that he colored in.  His daycare is a Spanish immersion daycare, so he learned that the drawing is a 'calabaza'.  Now his favorite Spanish word is 'calabaza'.  

"Arr!"

If you ask him what he did at daycare, no matter what he'll say, "Make new friends."  

Junior is 2!

Junior turned the big 2 last month.  We celebrated by having a party at a local park.  It was a low-key affair.  The weather was just perfect, and the kids seemed to really enjoy running around the playground.  Here are some pictures.