Nine Weeks

This week Tucker has spent a lot more time awake than asleep. And when he is awake he smiles and coos and babbles! Well, when he's not crying because he's hungry! We recently switched him from breast milk to formula and he's done quite well! With Hayden I nursed him up until he was nine months old. But this time around work is more hectic, Jason is working nights instead of days and the pumping was becoming painful. You would have thought after going through all of Hayden's colicky episodes I would have quit sooner with him  rather than so soon with Tucker even though he has been an angel compared to what Hayden was like! But for our family I knew this is what was right. Based off of what the girls at daycare were recording as far as how much Tucker was taking at a time, I started him out with 4 ounce at a time. This week he's drinking between 4 and 6 ounces at a time!

Something else I've noticed about Tucker is that he is a creature of habit. Hayden has always been a kind of easy going, take it as it comes kinda kid and has been perfectly happy and fine with not following a schedule. Tucker is the opposite. For example, like his father, Tucker fills his diaper every morning like clockwork! (Ok so Jason doesn't wear a diaper but there needs to be a lit candle in the bathroom every morning after he exits it!)  And every night he takes a bottle between 9 and 9:30 and sleeps til at least 3:30, sometimes longer! Next month we get to start cereal so I'm hoping he take it just as well as formula!

Another difference between the two boys is that Tucker seems to have a lot more baby acne than Hayden did. I think Hayden had a few spots but Tucker's is awful! It's all over his face, the skin behind his ears and even a little on the back of his neck and the top of his head! From what I keep reading/hearing it should go away on its own in the next couple of weeks. I'm hoping that it goes away sooner rather than later!