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Sean has been doing lots of new things lately! He’s really good at sitting up now; he can maneuver himself from sitting to tummy easily. He’s also been consistently rolling both ways. Today was a super day for him…after struggling for months to try to get him interested in baby food with minimal success, he SCARFED down 2/3 of a jar of sweet potatoes and a few tablespoons of rice cereal. He kept screaming at me because I couldn’t shovel it into his mouth quick enough! Also, check out what he’s doing as of this morning: All I can say is BOY GENIUS!

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Sean has his first ear infection. Luckily we caught it really early so it shouldn’t be that torturous. He HATES amoxicillin (the pink bubble gum one kids always try to get prescribed to them) but it’s only 10 days
Paul apparently had a lot of ear infections growing up; hopefully he won’t get his dad’s genes!

We went over to Jim & Cathy’s tonight to hang out and go swimming in their subdivision pool. It was Sean’s first time ever swimming and he LOVED it. He cracked up the whole time and loved being pulled through the water while he kicked like crazy! We’re glad that he had such a good time; especially since Mom’s pool will be in soon! Check out the unbelievably cute pictures below. Ladies, please try to resist his little manly body in his Hawaiian print swim trucks

There are 3 new videos of Sean on our youtube page!

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Also, new pictures:

These two pictures will break your heart!

When Big Sean visited a few weeks ago, we got a picture of him holding Little Sean just like he did when Little Sean was just 2 weeks old. He has gotten so big!!

Sorry! I haven’t posted ANY pictures so far this month. I apologize!

Here’s a bunch, from the past two weeks:

We’ve been taking small steps toward trying to get Sean to fall asleep on his own, instead of being rocked to sleep every night. He has put himself to sleep for a nap (when he can’t keep his eyes open) but never at night. He takes about 10 minutes of wiggling and rolling before he can get himself drifted off to sleep. We have been using our “aquarium” (even though it’s the jungle one, we still call it the aquarium) that we got from “the cousins” to get him used to hearing the music and associating it with sleep. He’s done really well and now falls asleep in our arms in about 2 minutes after hearing the music start.
Tonight was the first night that I fed him his bottle, burped him, sang him one song, then put him in his crib. 20 minutes later and without any cries or fussing, he’s sound asleep. Yay Sean! Hopefully he’ll continue to do it by himself…it’d save us a lot of time at night!

Colleen and Cate came from New York to visit this week. They watched Sean during the day while I was working and he had a ball with them! Check out this video of Cate holding Sean while Colleen tries to “get his neck.” He laughs so hard he can hardly get a breath! CLICK HERE

We’ve been struggling with Sean’s sleeping routine for a few weeks now. He decided that he likes to wake up 2-3 times/night instead of 1. The past 3 nights have been great. He slept all the way through the night 2 nights ago (8pm-515am) and last night slept from 7:30-4:15, then went back to sleep until 6:30. I feel much more rested (and I’m sure Paul does too) and Sean’s a happy camper. Still doing the Vick’s rub too; seems to be doing a good job!

Paul’s family is coming tonight to visit. Little Sean is very excited to see everyone and show off all his new tricks!