6 Week Checkup

Today Seth had his 6 week checkup (although he is actually 6 weeks and 2 days old) and he is certainly a growing boy.  He weight 9 lbs 4 oz and is 22 inches long. Both right in the 25th percentile for his age. He has definitely grown a lot in the past month. They gave him the rotavirus vaccine orally. I am praying for few to no side effects of the vaccine. So far he is a little more sleepy and less alert but nothing else. I am having BJ pick up some infant Tylenol at the store on the way home just in case he gets a fever later in the day from the vaccine. I certainly don't want to need it in the middle of the night and not have it.

I have been noticing this week that he is outgrowing his newborn size onesies and sleepers. Since they are for 5-9 pounds and he is over 9 pounds, that would make sense.  I am enjoying getting to venture into 0-3 month clothes since there is more selection there.  I would say that he will continue wearing his newborn pants for a while since most of them seem too wide for him.  He'll probably be too tall before he is too big for those, I'd guess, but we will wait and see.

Tonight BJ and I are going to the Mavericks game and the kids are staying with Nana and Papa. This will be the first time Seth has had to eat breastmilk out of a bottle, so hopefully he'll do well for Nana. 

Only one more week until I am going back to work. I have missed the social side of it, but it has been nice to only be a mom and wife without the pressure of work for the past few weeks. The kids have enjoyed (or they have seemed to enjoy) me being home to help with homework and such and being able to attend their school parties and eat lunch with them at school on occasion. Haley and I are working on memorizing multiplication tables and Daniel is working on improving his score on addition math facts on the computer. Katelynn has it pretty easy as far as school goes, but I have been reading to her and with her. She is supposed to start having homework in January. They are doing really well.

But we are all in for another adjustment when I start back to work next week. I will get to work on juggling it all again, plus a few new things. I think this time has made me more patient (or I hope it has) and I am praying for strength again to make it through the adjustments. I am sure it will all work out, it always does. God is just faithful like that.