18 Magical Weeks

This week has been fairly eventful, in a mostly exhausting kind of way.  Still in this strange sleep regression pattern, unfortunately.  We have to start off with a cute weekly picture of the little worm though!

• Pediatrician appointment update:  Gabriel was 10 lbs 15 oz (I won the bet over Craig for our previously-mentioned guesses!), 24 inches long, with a head circumference of 16 inches.  He gained a whole pound over the last "Polish baby scale" weighing we did three weeks prior!  During that time he almost DOUBLED his rate of gain!  Go Gabe!  He ended up at the 10th percentile for weight and the 50th percentile for height/length for his age.  Fine with us - a string bean like his father!
• We had our first baby fever event two days after his shots at his 4 month appointment.  He hit 100.4-100.7 around 5pm, but it went down within an hour after a dose of Tylenol.  No fever at all overnight (I checked every time he woke up just in case - thank goodness for the easiness of temporal thermometers!), but then back to 99.5 at 7am.  Another dose of Tylenol before I left for work, and we kicked the fever for good.  He was acting kind of mopey that first day, but he was back to normal by the following day.  I put in a phone call to "Dr Mom" (aka my mom!) the first evening just to see what too high of a temperature would be (she said 104) and to get some tips on monitoring him.
• We had a short visit from Godmother Chelsea during the week.  Can't believe her baby is due in a few short weeks!  We're so excited for them!  Gabriel can't wait to meet his new playmate!

 

•  Craig installed an update on my phone, which I'm still getting used to.  In the meantime, I played around with a "sketch" function on the phone's camera and got a few good shots:

 

• Gabe's new skill this week is holding up his bottles on his own!  Craig had been telling me that he was bumping the bottle up with his hands to make more trickle into his mouth, but holding the bottle on his own was new.  And pretty incredible, since they are fairly heavy 9 oz glass bottles!

 

Other pictures from the week:

Thanks for the hat, Ciocia Teresa!

Thanks for the pajamas, Teresa!

Showing some leg - first time he figured out he could reach his pants!

Mommy's favorite (don't tell Daddy)

Thanks for the pajamas, Aunt Ruthie!