Happy one-month birthday, Arthur!
It's hard to remember now that we're in the throes of the terrible twos, but Beatrice was a really easy infant: she almost never cried and she slept through the night for the first time before she was even three months old. When I was pregnant this time I kept thinking, there is no way I will be that lucky twice. Well, I don't want to jinx it, but I think I am!
At this age, infants can change fast, but so far at least, Arthur is a really easy baby. He spends almost the whole day looking around happily or contentedly napping, and while he remains a very voracious eater, as long as he's fed, he's completely content. About every 2-3 hours he lets out a shockingly loud wail for such a small person, but as soon as he's had his milk he's perfectly happy again. While he's not quite the amazing sleeper Beatrice was at his age, he's not a bad one, either, and I think and hope he'll sleep through the night relatively early like she did. (Right now he usually gets up every three hours at night, but he can do four hour stretches from time to time and once as long as five hours.)
This month Arthur met a number of our friends, including Zac, Colleen, Jeff, J. Ryan, Kat, Lucas, Veronika, Chris, and Nadia, as well as his grandmother Marilyn and his aunt Gillian. (He'll meet his grandfather Richard next week.)
He continues to roll over every day during "tummy time"and he is also working now on rolling the other way, back to front, and a sort of stymied proto-crawling.
He also learned to drink out of a bottle, though he remains somewhat resistant to it.
Not only is Arthur early to roll over, but he's early to focus on and reach for objects. He's already fascinated by the hanging stars and planets on his bouncer seat, by the toy hanging from his car seat handle, and most of all by the stuffed dog my mother gave him - in fact, he was even hugging the stuffed dog while staring intently into its face as if mesmerized. He will also stare at people's faces, completely absorbed, trying to figure them out.
As you might expect from the brother of a busy toddler, Arthur spends most of his days tagging along on activities planned for Beatrice, whether to the baby gym, the park, or the pool, but in the month ahead I plan on signing him up for Beatrice's old Mommy and Me class so he can have a little more one-on-one attention.
With toys Beatrice brought to him
Arthur has been sticking out his tongue a lot right from birth
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