Big Baby

Updated: 1/2/08
New pictures uploaded

Yvonne and I were marveling at how enormous our baby has become.  We were looking at his pictures from when he was just born, and he barely fit into his car seat.  Now he overflows from his car seat.  And that’s after we bought a new, bigger car seat cause he grew out of his infant seat.

From our measurements, Caleb now weighs about 20 pounds and he’s about 28 inches.  That’s about 85th percentile for weight and 90-95th percentile for height.  And remember, he was born 6 pounds 13 ounces, and was 18 inches long.  That’s 25th percentile in weight, and 10th percentile in height.  My how he’s grown.

7/1/07: Notice his feet and his head in the cushions

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7/29/07: Legs are a little longer, and his head fills the cushion a little more

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9/8/07: Can’t see his feet, but now we’re down to a single layer of head cushion

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10/18/07

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11/19/07: Caleb has outgrown the car seat.  Head no longer fits in cushion.  Legs hang off the end of the car seat

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11/25/07: New car seat.

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1/1/08

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Wail, wail

As I sit here writing this post, our munchkin is wailing his little heart out in Chris’ arms. Caleb decided about 2 weeks ago that he would not tolerate being put down for naps or bed by anybody but me. In the middle of the night, Chris has tried to get him back to sleep, but stubborn Caleb would wail an hour+ and then continue to wail in my arms until the only thing that we could find to soothe him would be to nurse him. Oh my. Now, Chris is trying to get him down for his second nap of the day (with his first nap ending in 25 minutes). In order to avoid listening to the persistent wailing, I went to take a shower… a really long one where I tried to clean all the soap scum off the tile and glass doors. After 40 minutes, he continues to wail in Chris’ arms with only nano-moments of gasping quietness. Why does this child not like to sleep at all?