One month!

Well, technically one month and 3 days now, but Evan had his one month appointment at the doctor today. He is now 10lbs 11oz!! That's 3 whole pounds over his birth weight! That puts him in the 75 percentile for his age. He is also 22.5 inches long, 1.5 inches longer than at birth. Also 75 percentile for his age. He is thriving! He also had his second Hepatitis B shot today. He had been so good up until that point and when the needle went in the leg his face got bright red and he let out a good scream and cry. Tired him right out though, he was asleep by the time we were pulling out of the parking lot.

Evan spent the night in his room for the first time 2 nights ago. He seems to like it or at least we don't hear his disapproval! I have sure slept a lot better without him in the room. He grunts and snorts a lot when he's not quite awake but not all the way asleep yet and that was keeping me up a lot at night. Now I only hear when he cries which is really the only time he needs me. He's also sleeping a lot better during the day. Not quite sure why or how anything is different from last week but he catches cat naps, hour long naps and really long 2-3 hour naps throughout the day. We have had much more pleasant evenings now! One thing that has helped is that Sam and Christie suggested an exercise ball to us. We were over at their house Friday night and we knew they had used it to calm Sammie down when he was a baby and now they're using it with Charlie. It worked like a charm. I just sat on the ball and bounced while holding Evan when he started to fuss and it calmed him right down. We bought one the next day and it has worked to calm him down every time he starts fussing (unless he's hungry of course!). It relaxes him so he can start calming down enough to fall asleep.

As you saw from the previous post, the cats have been driving us somewhat crazy - mostly Bella. Since she can hop a double baby gate we shut her in the office and the other two were contained with just one baby gate. Well she pulled up a ton of carpet while shut in there which of course infuriated us. So almost immediately after Jack saw that he started to install the bi-fold door on the laundry room that he was so hesitant to install for months. It opens pretty easily so we have to "bolt" it each night with a spring loaded curtain rod. What a hassle!

We're embarking on our first road trip with him tomorrow! We're heading up to Maine for Thanksgiving and looking forward to the adventure!