5 week check up

5 week stats:
weight: 11 lbs 3oz- 70th percentile (birthweight 8lbs 1oz)
height: 23 inches long-90th percentile (@ birth 20 inches)
head circumfrence: 15.75- I forget percentile (@ birth 14 inches)

We had our 1 month plus (he will be 5 weeks tomorrow) doctor's appointment today. As you can see from above he is growing wonderfully! The doctor was impressed with his growth and also his head and neck control. We discussed his fussiness and disdain for sleeping alone but I didn't really get any great answers. She thinks his fussiness/fighting sleep is due to being over stimulated which sometimes I agree with but not always so we will see how decreasing his stimuli goes. What little she did say about him sleeping with us was that he is still little and has time to change and right now it is ok to do, or at least that was the message I took home from it. Due to his fighting sleep she thinks that he will be a "...nosey baby. He is going to be crawling and pulling himself up early and getting into everything." I am fine with that as long as he is happy and entertaining himself. Of course I say that now, we will see what I think when he is actually doing it. That was basically all she had for me. We will go back in one month for our next appointment and lots of shots :( Donovan got his second in the series of 3 hepatitis B vaccines today, and he did pretty well. He screamed but only for a half a minute or so and then he continued with his fussing.

Today was the first time that I took Donovan somewhere by myself and I must say it went pretty well. I even was able to put his binky in his mouth and hold it in for a minute while I was driving. I am pretty sure doing that is a requirement to pass your mother boards so that you can earn your M.O.M. degree so I have that under my belt, which is nice. Donovan must have known that I was complaining about him being fussy to the doctor today because he has been a very good boy tonight. Tom gave him a bath all by himself (I played supervisor/paparazzi) and Donovan did not fuss even once. They were so cute together, I think Donovan even enjoyed it! I sense a new primary bath giver. Donovan did not even act like he was annoyed when I put lotion on him after the bath, which he usually does not like at all. Of course we couldn't get through the whole experience without Tom getting peed on. Well, he would have gotten peed on but he caught it when he was getting ready to dry him off and did his trusty hand over the pee stream trick to keep everything from getting soaked. The last bath we gave Donovan was the same thing. He peed when we were getting ready to dry him only that time Tom didn't realize Donovan was peeing until he was almost done. By that time Tom had pee down his shirt from about nipple line to shorts, his shorts were soaked and when he went to change clothes he realized that the pee had soaked all the way through to his boxers! He had to change his entire outfit. We are convinced Donovan pees like a adult man. (Why is it that pee makes it into almost all of my posts? Oh well, its my blog and it makes me laugh). Here are some pictures from the dad bath tonight.

Caught in the act.

Weenie shot! Note the hot pink bandaid that was covering his owie from today's shot. Real men wear pink!

Beer, umm I mean milk belly.

"I see your hiney, all nice and shiney..."

This is my new favorite thing to do after a bath, I hold him like this and look in the mirror at his adorable little dimply butt. (PS. Check out the head control!)

Close up of the cheeks. Gotta love those booty dimples!