Two Weeks

These pictures were taken when Calvin was 5 days old, but he is now almost three weeks old! I can hardly believe it. He went in for his two week appointment last week, weighing in at 8 lbs 2 oz and 19.75 inches in length. He still has 3 oz to catch up to his birth weight, but he has grown a quarter of an inch! He is in the 11th percentile for height and 42nd percentile for weight. 

Calvin eats every 2.5-3 hrs pretty consistently, followed by some awake time and then down for a nap. He is staying awake and more alert for longer periods of time which has been a lot of fun. It took a few nights of hard work, but Robert feeds him and puts him down for bed at about 10-10:30 and does a long 4-5 hour stretch until about 3. I feed him and then he is out till about 6:30 or 7 and he is up for the day!

We had to give him a sponge bath for his first few baths and he HATED it, to say the least. He sure did sleep well those nights, though :). We gave him his first real bath on Sunday and he seemed to like it. He is pretty expressionless most of the time, but when he first wakes up he always does this cross-eyed frog face and it is my FAVORITE thing in the whole world. 

The only time he cries is when he is hungry (he takes his food seriously) or when he is overly tired and can't get himself to sleep. We figured out that he needs to start going down for a nap about 10 minutes early and he goes down easy, but if we wait he can get pretty mad. 

He is really strong. He started lifting up his neck when he was about 2 days old, and his grip is unreal. If he is laying on mine or Roberts chest during his "awake" time then he will lift his head up and just hold it there and stare at us for a good minute or two. We also have to swaddle him up pretty good or else he just breaks out of it and ends up hitting himself while he is sleeping and waking himself up. Swaddling is THE BEST. 

We are pretty in love with this kid.