Yay! Ezra is now 3 months old. I only hope the 3 month old Ezra is as much fun as the 2 month old Ezra. The 2 month Ezra was way more fun to be with than the 1 month old Ezra, so hopes are high for more fun times to come with the 3 month old Ezra!
Before we know it, he will be talking back, wanting to borrow the car, and asking us for money!
The first couple of times we put Ezra in his baby bath, he didn’t seem to like it much. There were tears and the pouty lip and sometimes screams of sheer agony. The boy did not like to be naked and wet. But now, Ezra seems to like his baths a little more. He kind of splashes around with his legs, and sometimes dips his arms into the water. This is good, because we decided that Ezra is going to get a bath when he comes home from daycare. Germs be gone!
Here’s his cuteness getting ready for his bath on Monday:
Today Ezra and I had more stand practice, which is the practice of Ezra trying to stand.
Practice beings with the stand up. I place my hand on either side of his torso and lift Ezra. Ezra’s legs fall and feet touch the ground then I slowly lower Ezra until his legs are locked, the joints don’t move. Once the legs are locked, I loosen the hold of both my hands to allow Ezra to almost stand on his own, but not loose enough I can’t hold him from falling. My hands never leave the sides of his torso.
After the stand up comes the stand, which can last anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes.
-v- and I have been stand practicing with Ezra for a little more than a month. We don’t expect Ezra to hit the ground and begin waking or running. Hell, we don’t expect him to stand on his own for he just learned to hold his head up and look around. We do it because it is fun to see him smile when he is standing. And he does smile when standing. He smiles a lot. It’s fun to see him try to balance as he sways back and forth with his smile. He smiles and looks here and there. His head shakes like a drunkard trying to walk home. His body goes loose and falls. We catch. And then like puppet with strings pulled, he pops body tight and stands and stares at us smiling wide.
Ezra makes a lot of noises we associate with joy when he is stand practicing.
Ezra also does spit up if we don’t wait a half hour after he eats before stand practice. I think the lack of balance causes the body and stomach to react for both are not use to standing. As a result, out comes lots of milk spit up.
Spit up doesn’t end stand practice. Once Ezra stops smiling, the stand practice is over.
Like all us tools working or going to school during the Monday through Friday time cycle, we now have a new tool that will be joining us in our endless job of keeping the system working. Today Ezra experienced his first ‘Monday’. A ‘Monday’ that began at five in the morning because Ezra hasn’t adjusted to daylight savings time. A ‘Monday’ morning that had -v- and I running around to get Ezra ready for daycare. I got tense and snappy, but we made it to the car. Once we made it to the car, Ezra realized that this was not a normal day. I don’t know if it was because he finally realized that he was experiencing his first ‘Monday’, or if he just didn’t want to be in his car seat that early, but during the ride to daycare Ezra did begin to cry. We arrived at daycare and parted ways leaving Ezra to look and smile at another baby. (The other baby had a HUGE head that I also found some thing to look and smile and made me want to point and express that the kid has a HUGE head!) Later in the day, -v- picked Ezra up from the daycare center. According to -v-, Ezra was siting in a chair being cool and calm in a vibrating chair while the other two remaining babies were crying. Ezra arrived home and was soon fast asleep.
Every day we are becoming more convinced that Ezra will be left-handed. The action that best supports our belief these past couple of weeks is Ezra rising and lowering and moving side to side his left arm while his right usually remains at rest by his side. He does this often. He will just be sitting there or laying on his back and without cue his left arm rises above and hangs there. Some times he tries to grab things with his raised left hand. But most of the time when he raises his left arm, Ezra’s hand is usually in the form of a fist making it appear he is raising his arm and fist in some sort of protest against the man.
Having completed a week with daycare and a week with mommy and daddy working the Money Jobs, Ezra can now enjoy his first weekend. Little does Ezra know that he is now and forever going to live in a world of weekends.
In a few days, Ezra will experience his first Monday.
The costume didn’t last long - it was a hit with mom and dad though!
I got some work done yesterday at home with Ezra. He was really well-behaved and agreed to sit and watch me work for brief periods. Otherwise, I mostly worked while he slept. Hopefully I can make this working from home work for me and Ezra, because it’s much nicer to be home with him a couple days during the week : )
We had to get dressed for the office so that we could be better workers, which meant he couldn’t just hang out in his pajamas all day. Unlike most office workers, Ezra demands a costume change half-way through the day.
Morning:
Afternoon:
