Team NeMO: Lately.....

Why yes, It has been a month since I last Blogged, thank you for noticing. I'm busy. You'll get over it.

Chase is now 3 months old (14 weeks today actually) and I think it's time I have to stop counting in weeks. I really should read up and refresh my memory as to what babies should be doing to make sure he is on track...but you know what, after Zachary, I really don't care. Not that I don't care if he develops or not, I don't care 'when' he reaches certain milestones. He will do it when he's good and ready.

With that said, what is he doing you ask? He's growing! We had a doctors appointment the other day and he was 15 pounds 3 ounces - since it was not a check up we did not get any other stats. To give you an idea on his size - Braden was about 15 pounds at 3 months, and I don't have a weight written down for Zachary at 3 months, but his 4 months weight was 14 pounds 14 ounces.

I cannot get over these rolls!

Why were we at the doctors you ask? He has a little rash on the outside of his elbows that will just not go away. We have tried "eczema" specific washes and creams, a low dose steroid cream, breast milk, coconut oil....and still it's not improving any :-/ it's not spreading, but not improving. We are going to re-visit the issue at his 4 months appointment, but our next stop may be to a dermatologist. I will keep you posted.

Waiting for the Dr

What else? Still holding his neck up really well. He has rolled over twice now, but both times I think were just the way I propped him up, so we are not going to count them. He does scootch himself around in a circle when he is on his tummy though. Still loving the swaddle wraps. I don't think I mentioned this, but right around 2 months I said he was "officially" sleeping through the night! And boy is it amazing! The big boys go to bed around 8pm. Then Chase is up with us until about 9-9:30pm eats, then sleeps until 6am-ish. Now he would love to stay awake for the morning, but he usually dozes off or just hangs out in his cradle until 8ish.

I could watch him sleep all day

Zachary is doing SOOOOOO goo with therapy. It's night and day. But with this comes back talking and our first glimpse at the terrible two's. He's really not that bad, just a little demanding sometimes. Until this week, he has never really had a name for Braden (brother, B, buh-buh, bray...nothing) but this week he started calling him "Ben", it's so cute, and Braden is a good sport about it. When Zach is yelling for Ben, he will answer, and does not skip a beat. So Braden is now Ben. I won't let it last, but until Zach's speech improves a little more, we will just go with it.

The boys finished up soccer and did a month of Kid's Crossfit at one of the gyms here. B LOVED it, Zach was a little spacey, but I think he enjoyed doing something with Braden.

Getting ready for their first day of Crossfit

Hum, what else, what else? I think that's really it for now. There is just so much I don't even know where to begin. O well, If you want to know something, ask ;-)

Now here are some more photos from the last month (PS - if you don't follow me on Instagram, you really should)