Here is Jack at 16 weeks…
(May 17, 2012)

I enjoyed my first Mother’s Day by getting to sleep in! R kept telling me to go back to sleep every time I would wake to care for Jack and I didn’t know why until I finally got out of bed at, like, 9:30am and found these beautiful flowers and cards waiting for me…

And my two favorite guys were smiling at me…

Our bedtime routine is quickly becoming one my favorite things. First, I get Jack in a bath (which is one of his favorite things). Then Daddy arrives home and we all sit together on the bed and Jack drinks a bottle while we read a story. This week we started to read a lot of Curious George, which was fun. It is a joy to watch Jack listen more and more intently and look at the pictures. Finally, Jack gets swaddled, I often sing a short song, kiss him, say, “Good night, sweet dreams” and then I leave the room. R then does a little soothing before placing him in his bed with his Sleep Sheep playing. And we cross our fingers. We’re still working on sleeping through the night (or longer than 4 hours).

We’re tired, but with these cute chubby cheeks waking you in the middle of the night, it’s hard to complain too much…

Can you believe our boy is already 16 weeks? We can’t.
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