Already 3 months

Man where has time gone?? My sweet baby boy is already 3 months old. Caleb gets more active all the time now. He's awake way more than he sleeps and he puts himself to bed for the night at 8 pm or so which is crazy now both my kids go to bed at 8 and me and Anthony have the rest of the night to ourselves! I grow more in love with this sweet boy everyday.

Things to remember about this month:

We are  finally on an eating schedule of every 4 hours which means my cute chubby boy only eats 4 times a day but he's eating 6 oz bottles of breast milk

He loves the water during bath time

He still has baby acne really bad

He sits in his bumbo pretty good

He sits with us at dinner sometimes

He love to interact with Madison and she's the only one he will laugh for

Madison gave him his first fat lip

He does not like the carseat

He doesn't sleep on any schedule other than at bed time

Skills I noticed he gained this month:

• he is starting to bear weight on his legs
• Able to hold head up when sitting but still bobs forward
• When lying on stomach can raise head and shoulders between 45 and 90 degrees
• Holds objects but does not reach for them
• Clutches his own hands and pulls at blankets and clothes
• Follows objects 180 degrees
• Locates sound by turning head and looking in the same direction
• loves to Squeal, coo, babble, and starting to chuckle
• he “Talks” when spoken to
• Recognizes faces, voices, and objects especially mommy
• Smiles when he/she sees familiar people, and engages in play with them
• Shows awareness to strange situations

Summer Scavenger Hunt...A trip to the Discovery Science Center

The discovery science center's theme was midevil Lego's. it was super fun and just the right age timing for Madison! she played dress up, got to sit in furniture that was made from Lego's, they don't really have a "second theme" but they had several rooms where they had different stuff going on. in one room they had blocks and pipes for the kids to learn to build, just a bit further down they had a set of pipes at different lengths that when you hit them with a flip flop they made different noises and you could play songs like twinkle twinkle and itsy bitsy spider. we went with Kylie and brayden (and Brittany of course) the boys slept most of the time and then we went to the mall next door to have lunch. it was quite the day but we sure had a great time...so great in fact that both kids passed out on the way home!



 

Our sleepy boys did so great! Caleb was about 10 weeks old here.








This Lego area was so fun and the Lego's were huge!

 

 






















 

This was a pully system and each one had a value above it that stated how much of your weight you were actually lifting. madison had a ball on the "ride" and caleb is strapped to my chest with the moby sound asleep!
 

 

It really was a totally amazing day.  I'm starting to feel more confident taking the two kids out all on my own but i have learned it is certainly going to take some practice and getting used to

Summer Scavenger Hunt...A trip to the movies

This summer we spent a lot of time at the movies. we have a theater near us that does what they call a summer movie special. they play 10 movies over the course of 10 weeks and you buy the movies for $5 so $.50 a movie. All of the movies were played in the past year sometime. Madison hadn't seen any of them because she has no attention span. I thought what a great way to help her focus and sit for long periods of time. when we started this I tried taking Caleb with us and he did okay at first but as he got a little older it just got very challenging so I decided I would take Madison by herself and have a mommy daughter date once a week with her while my mom watched Caleb. Much to my surprise Madison did great! she loved the movies, sat pretty well, and i learned she's a big fan of popcorn! We also met up with Kylie, Brittany, and Brayden most weeks. It has amazed me at how he relationship with Kylie has grown...they are practically inseparable when we are all together.

Madison quarterly report June 2013

Now that we have Madison all settled in with a new teacher the teacher has to leave. She had a major issue with her pregnancy. But before she left she did us a huge favor by requesting Madison do more therapy so now she does speech therapy 1 time a week and occupational therapy 1 time a week each one for an hour.

Madison -30 months

Social/ Emotional
3/20/12 -8 months
11/30/12 -20 months

2/15/13 - 23 months

6/6/13 -34 months

Adaptive/ self help
3/20/12- feeding 8 months; toileting 12-15 months; dressing 12-15 months

11/30/12-  21 months for all categories 

2/15/13 - 26 months

6/6/13 - 33 months

Fine motor

3/20/12 -8 months

11/30/12  -16-19 months

2/15/13- 20-23

6/6/13- 29 months

Cognitive

3/20/12 -8 months

11/30/12  -20 months

2/15/13 -24 months

6/6/13 -27 months

Communication

3/20/12 -Receptive: 7 months      Expressive: 3 months

11/30/12 -Receptive: 24 months   Expressive: 9-12 months

2/15/13 -Receptive: 29 months   Expressive: 13-14

6/6/13 - Receptive: 29 months    Expressive: 28 months

Gross motor

3/20/12   -11 months

11/30/12  -26 months

2/15/13 -29 months

6/6/13 -29 months

I am beyond amazed at Madison's ability to gain new skills. She is working so hard and we hear and see her growth daily. It is believed that Madison has developmental apraxia of speech. This disorder causes issues with language, reading, writing, math, comprehension, spelling, and motor skills.