Big day today!!

Maxley is ((drumroll)) 7 POUNDS!!!! What!?????

I am not sure how this happened!! Seems like it happened fast but let’s look back...

2lbs June 15
3lbs July 3
4lbs July 30
5lbs Aug 16
6lbs Sept 24
7lbs Oct 19

Some jumps have taken a lot longer than others for sure. This means he had surpassed 3 times his birth weight of 2lbs 4oz and is still somehow in preemie clothes. My mom did start putting him in newborn some this week and it’s not horrible!

The other big news is that he giggled for the first time. I was making a funny noise and holding him in front of my face and he sorta laughed which he had never even done and then I asked my mom if that counted as his first giggle and I kept making the noise and he legit giggles. It was the best noise ever. He was being fussy and I was just trying to get him to stop crying!! Makes me happy.

Randi left this evening to head back home. We had a great week even though I feel bad we didn’t get to do anything fun. She said she knew what she was signing up for when she came. She was so helpful! It’s hard because my mom was here everyday with her when I was at work but my mom can work then if Randi takes over M duties. It was so nice having her here. Makes me wonder what life would be like to have in laws in the same town as them. I envy those people. I know a lot of people don’t like their in laws but at least they have their love and support close by.

We had the dietitian from our medical supply company come this afternoon to talk to us about her plan for him and about 2.5 minutes after she left the OT from capurnum came to asses him too. It’s insane how many people come to the house to work with him, we might be at 10 now?

Kaili is from Capurnum and she thinks that Maxley has a sensory disorder. Because he always needs to be held and the way he overreacts to certain situations she thinks he might be. She will keep looking into us and help with exercises we can do to help him feel secure and safe and what not with this disorder. Just pile it on the list of more shit. Poor kid. If someone could let me know when my break time is that would be great! Even the shittiest jobs get a 15 but I can’t seem to catch one.

My mother in law comes tomorrow and I am looking forward to seeing her of course but also getting a routine going and having Pam up to speed on things. Randi did such a good job but she was the first person to do anything for Maxley except hold him. She was the first to change his diaper or ask how to make a bottle or do his meds. She put him down for naps and calmed him when he cried. It was amazing having another set of hands who know how to calm him when he is losing it.

Randi is so funny. She said she would be holding him and he would be crying. She wouldn’t be able to calm him and would feel like she was doing something wrong or that she “broke the baby” but then she would look up and my mom and I and we wouldn’t even acknowledge that anything was wrong so she knew she was doing ok. She told me she thought if she was really screwing it up, we would come take the baby or correct her but she was a natural! An amazing aunt!