Back to normality

Well, after the cub's world travelling, it's back to "normal" life...although life with a baby is never truly normal as it's always changing.

Since we've been back Leo's reverted back to his old sleeping pattern, going to sleep between 20:00 - 20:30ish and waking up between 5:00 - 5:30ish. It's always a bit hit-and-miss if he's willing to go back to sleep after his early morning bottle, something which isn't too great for Daddy and me if you're up with a giggling infant at 5:30 in the morning!

Leo tends to wake up very cheery, which always helps the day off to a good start. Thankfully I'm a morning person (Daddy not so much!) so I can really enjoy the most of his giggles.

This week I'm having a look at his recent waking/sleeping and eating patterns and trying to figure out if there's any kind of pattern to them. Leo's currently awake for around two hours before napping and is feeding roughly every three hours. We usually have some baby rice around 11ish with his bottle, something which is going really well now! After this weekend he'll be graduating onto purees...which should be fun! 

On Monday Auntie R came to visit with some delicious food (well, for Daddy and me, not for Leo!). Leo had been a bit grumpy but Auntie R and her blonde hair always make him smile (he's got a thing for older blondes...) and he quickly snuggled up and fell asleep on her. As he now weighs about 15lbs I'm impressed Auntie R managed to keep standing for so long!

Yesterday started off very well with a very happy, smiley Leo. It was terrible weather so I'd planned a day indoors for us, but this was quickly turned into an enforced sweatpants day as I did my knee in. Leo and I lounged around wearing our slobby sweatpant and generally not doing much of anything.

Then suddenly in the early afternoon Leo started crying. And screaming. And yelling. He was inconsolable! After several hours of crying I suddenly had the bright idea of giving him the teething toy Auntie C gave us a while ago, which I had stashed in the fridge. Our poor cub nearly devoured it and was soon a slobbering, drooling happy baby, taking out his frustration on the poor teething toy.

So it looks like teething's begun. All the recent hand chewing and drooling has told us it's been on its way, but yesterday's howling confirms it's now begun.

Unfortunately this doesn't mean a tooth's going to appear. As some of our cub's friends have shown us, this could go on for months and months and still he could be toothless...