Mommy and Daddy have been busy with all the bits and pieces related to closing escrow and preparing to move out of the condo and into the new house in the next few weeks. As a result we haven’t had a chance to update you on little Lennon and his adventures.
Two Fridays ago, we took a day trip down to Long Beach to visit Nana and Gedo. After a cocktail at dinner, Gedo got up enough nerve to hold the baby!
Gedo holding Lennon in Long Beach
While in Long Beach we took Lennon for a nice long walk on the beach and by the marina.. Of course he slept through it, as he always does. Baby is infamous for falling asleep whenever we take him on walks.
Of course, getting baby to sleep outside of his walks is not always as easy. After receiving multiple recommendations and a lot of praise for swings that could help, we took my coworker Beth’s advice and bought the Graco Soothing Center - a $150 super swing that lets baby rock back and forth at multiple speeds and in multiple directions. After spending all that money and putting the whole ugly thing together, we put Lennon in it.. and guess what he did? Screamed his head off! For the first couple days he absolutely HATED the Soothing Center… but since then we’ve convinced him of its merits (mainly by trying over and over again.. and by speeding it up to faster than what we’d imagine he’d find comfortable). The only trouble is it’s really hard to look cool and punk-rock in your skull and cross bones onesie while sitting in this goofy teddy-bear decorated seat…
Punk Rock, Teddy-Bear Head
Less than a week later, Lennon turned 4 weeks old… and then 2 days later, he became officially one month old! Wow! A whole month! He’s already growing fast!
Lennon at One Month
At one month old, Lennon was still attached to his umbilical cord. Typically the little remnant piece falls off around 10 days old.. but baby has been “attached” to it. We took him to the pediatrician and she did a little soddering with some silver nitrate solution to help it along. It didn’t come off in the office but by the next day, it did! That was on his one-month birthday, in fact. Mommy was very proud of baby for finally letting it go. Now he has a cute, perfect little belly button.
Now Lennon is almost 5 weeks old.. At this point he’s mastered making and holding eye-contact. He’s also figured out that there’s more to life than eating, sleeping and messing in his diaper. He cries and screams at more of a zero-to-sixty speed than before and Mommy and Daddy now spend a lot of time trying to decode what the screams mean. We’re starting to be able to decipher between the fake attention cries and the really serious cries. Progress!
Around now Lennon is also starting to learn how to smile at us.. And not the smile that newborns do when they are passing gas but actual real smiles that are reactions to us talking, playing or smiling at him. He hasn’t quite got it mastered but it’s starting to happen and even those little half-meant smiles are melting Mommy’s heart! Here’s today’s attempts at smiling…
More to come! For now though, don’t expect them too often. Mommy is soaking up her last days of maternity leave.. Trying to store up as many baby daytime moments as possible before she heads back to work in November!
