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matt turned seven months yesterday!

so many things happened last month matt went swimming in cebu and batangas, rode another airplane to go back to australia and started eating solids! unfortunately for matt, he got a cold (and still has it) because of the weather here in canberra. he has also started being very bungisngis and more attached to me. he still hates his car seat but he has allen asleep a couple of times on it which is very promising.

thanks to his activity center i am able to get things done even if it’s just the two of us, even taking showers! lol his sleep habits are ok i guess, it’s hard to say cos his being sick has messed up his night sleeps.

some memorable pics from this month:

matt turned six months a few weeks ago and i haven’t had the chance to write a post about it until now.

while we were in the philippines matt has mastered rolling over, so much so that as soon as he wakes up in the morning he rolls over straight away. i have also seen him sleeping on his tummy on some occasions, although he usually goes back to sleeping on his back by morning.

we tried training him on the bottle a week before the wedding but he wouldn’t have any of it. instead he preferred drinking from the lid of the bottle, sort of like a cup. on the wedding itself he actually drank from a bottle, probably from being really hungry. he also got baptised on 19 july, and he really hated wearing a barong! LOL

he has also started getting upset whenever we eat in front of him, shouting at the top of his lungs and the only way to shut him up is to give him a boob lol he also puts anything and everything he can grab hold of into his mouth.

matt turned five months today and so much has happened since my last monthly post.

in the last month matt has started smiling a lot, even for me! he also started crawling (more like creeping) but he gets really tired when he does it. he’s also sleeping better at night, i think because he can now change positions by himself. we also went to the doctor and he now weights 17 pounds, 13 ounces and is 25 inches long! but the biggest surprise by far is that he is starting to cut a tooth on the right side of his bottom gums. he has also started to show interest in food, even trying to grab his daddy’s coke!

he still hates his car seat and the stroller, although he’s improved quite a bit, falling asleep on his own a couple of times on the stroller without having to be breastfed. he’s still boycotting formula and the bottle, but when he’s really hungry you can get him to drink breast milk from a bottle.

next month will be exciting because he will be starting solids when we go back to australia.

matt is now four months. as usual, it only seems like yesterday when i was typing the post for month 3.

in the last month matt has started smiling regularly for his dad, giggled a few times, started wearing size 6 months clothes, stopped drinking formula and started grasping his bib and the belt on his swing. he also enjoys bath times a lot more now, with me soaking wet after each bath. he is also starting to get a bald patch on the back of his head, i think he might be shedding some of his hair.

as for me i am no longer so sleep deprived although i still feel like i am, shedding some of my hair too and still not losing weight

matt is relatively easier to put to sleep at night, although days are still a bit of a struggle. his regular bedtime is around 9pm and he wakes up anytime from 7-8.30am. he still wakes up a few times during the night to feed, but at least he doesn’t groan and grunt as much anymore.

matt turned three months today (LA time). the last three months has been such a blur.

in the last month matt has been smiling randomly, crying less, outgrew more clothes, took his first domestic and international flights, went to LA, slept on his crib, started pooping every other day instead of 6 times a day, squealed in delight, can lift his head for a couple of minutes during tummy time, saw a paediatrician for the first time, got his second set of immunisations and started “talking” to us.

as for me i am still sleep deprived, my back is starting to suffer from carrying matt (he’s almost 14 pounds already), watched a movie for the first time and have been eating regularly since getting here in LA.

it’s a bit difficult to measure matt’s stats cos we don’t have regular visits to the doctor, not to mention they don’t use kg and cm here. but i’m pretty sure he’s gained a lot of weight cos he’s really quite heavy now and he is quite chubby already. he looks a bit like the michelin man

i hope he starts giggling soon and will smile a bit more and become less grumpy lol