Piglet

It's two days before Thanksgiving, and about two months since we last updated this blog. Braden will be eleven weeks old tomorrow! He now weighs close to 12 pounds, has two chins, no neck, a pot belly and little christmas hams for thighs. He was born in below the 5th percentile for weight and at his 2 month checkup he had jumped to the 20th. Its no wonder for the first six weeks of his life he nursed constantly, I mean he would literally nurse for an hour and take five minute break before crying again. I thought I would die. Luckily now has eased up to about every hour or two when he is awake , and it gets better all the time. He is currently lying on my chest, snoring. This is his favorite way to sleep, and some times the only way he will sleep. We can have the tv on, music up loud, the dogs can bark and he doesn't budge. Put him down by himself and his eyes pop open instantly. Oh well. we kind of went back and forth about having him sleep in the bed vs on his own, and ended up being so tired we just went with what allowed us the most sleep, which is him next to me in the bed of course. But its kind of nice because in the middle of the night as soon as he wiggles I wake up and feed him, so he just goes right back to sleep, half the time he never even opens his eyes. He has also started smiling and chattering little bird noises, which is beyond cute. He even makes angry yelling noises when he is displeased with me. Thursday we are headed to Marvins family for Thanksgiving the Friday we will be in Charlotte for a playoff game. Someone is awake and wants his diaper changed, so I'd better go...