August has started to interact more with objects, namely his pacifier (which he of course sucks on, but will also hold and try to adjust with his hand, and will sort of look for when it has fallen out of his mouth) and the set of rattles that one of our students got for us. Here are three videos from the last couple days of him with his objects.
I don’t have anything clever or witty to say about it.
This is one of two rattles we use to entertain him on the changing table. I also have used it with him while playing on the floor and couch. He has started to interact with it in a semi-intentional way.
We generally swaddle him at night, but during the day we don’t, and he spends most of his sleeping time with his hands up, in fists, like this:
I’ve been meaning to get a place set up to share just a stream of August-related photos for your viewing/downloading/printing pleasure. I was waffling between using an iCloud Photostream or Flickr and went with Flickr. You can find it at http://flickr.com/gp/rcniman/7P8M27/.
Unlike this site, it is only available to ‘family and friends’. However, that link should operate as a ‘guest pass’ and allow anyone using it to see the photos. So, just like the link to this blog, you may pass it along to other people we know. We just didn’t want our photos to be open on Flickr in a way that we’d get comments from random people we don’t know or find a photo of August used on some daycare website.
Here are a few videos from the past day.
First up, August does a good job of sleeping with a lot of noise in the background. He does, however, tend to startle a lot and move around:
Next, we have a video of Carly trying to burp him. But burping time often just means falling asleep time:
This is from last night. After Carly went to bed I thought he was about to be soundly asleep three times. After the third time I set him on the floor to swaddle him and his eyes instantly opened, 100% awake. He would proceed to happily stay awake for the next hour and a half. Here he is happily lying on the floor:
Finally, we’ve started to give him sponge baths. Here’s today’s:
I was wrong, August did find time to tweet tonight. Check him out on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/AugustZinn
We had a good time in August’s room last night, where we shot the latest selfie. Here are a couple videos of August enjoying being awake.
Carly and August both had checkups today. So the four of us piled in a taxi (note: putting a car seat into a taxi is a rather slow and careful action, so no actual piling occurred) and we headed to Cheongdam.
First, August got checked out. Here are his current stats:
In American that means he is 1 foot 8ish inches, 8 lbs, and has a decent-sized head. He’s regained a good bit of weight but has a way to go to get back to his birth weight.
Here is Oma with August in the doctor’s office:
Then Oma, August, and I sat in the waiting room while Carly had her appointment. I know he can’t focus very far, but he was fascinated by the colors from the big windows and all of the overhead lighting. He squirmed every which way to look at all the lights:
Back home, my coworker/friend Renee brought over a wonderful veggie lasagna for dinner and stayed for a visit:
As if lasagna and beef stew (for tomorrow) wasn’t enough, they also surprised us with a present. The giraffe is handmade in Illinois and one of the books (with the spider) was one of Renee’s books from when she was a child:
All of us are particularly tired tonight, so time for bed. August in particular seems a bit worn out, so I don’t think he’ll be on Twitter this evening.