Houston...we have a temper!

Things are about the same in Jeremiah's world. We're still waiting for him to get his little arm out of the way and roll to his tummy. Here's a pic to show you how close he is.

He has a had a few nights in the last week that have had a rough patch. For example, last night at about midnight he was fussing a bit, then more, and when John couldn't find his nuk, all heck broke loose. John later discovered that Jeremiah had been sleeping on nuk. However, by that time he was flaming mad! We are discovering that he has a bit of a temper. This hysteria was quickly calmed with a little snack and then he was back to bed for the night.

John stood on the scale with him tonight and we are estimating that he weighs about 15 lbs. He goes to the doctor on Tuesday so we'll have some official stats for you then. We're also thinking about starting the cereal routine in the next week or so. That's sure to make for some interesting blogging.

I'll leave you with this picture. I'm not sure what John did to make him make this face but you can write your own caption.

Thanks for visiting! We appreciate everyone who comes out to see what our little man is up to!

So close!!!

Jeremiah has made it official that he is rolling from his tummy to his back. John and I have both witnessed it - two times within a five minute period - so there is not denying. He is also really close to going from back to belly. He is teasing us, but can't quite get his little arm out of the way. Frankly, I think he just really enjoys watching us come running when one person yells "come here!" only for him not to go all the way over. We don't want to miss watching him do it.

He has managed to "sleep through the night" all week. I put that in quotes because he does wake up but usually just to have his pacifier reinserted. We haven't had to feed him a middle of the night snack since last Friday.

I recently saw this entry on a board that I frequent and it made me chuckle because anyone who has lived with either of us knows how much we hit the snooze button. I don't think we've been this bad yet.

For some reason, DD decided she didn't want to sleep much last night. She woke up almost hourly starting around 2 a.m. At some point in my sleep-deprived night, I'd hear her cry through the monitor and I was trying to snooze it! I remember thinking, "now, how do you make this thing stop?" I actually turned it off and turned it back on and was baffled as to why there was still noise coming out of it. Then, I remembered, oh, I have to go in there to make her stop...it's not my alarm!

Wildman Todd

Jeremiah had a pretty exciting weekend, enjoying a visit from Grandma and Grandpa Todd and uncle Matt. He spent most of his day Saturday with Grandma Todd. They played and she was even brave enough to give him a bath so she got to witness "Wildman Todd", my new name for him when he gets "crazy" in the bathtub.

His busy day with Grandma must have exhausted him because he went to bed around 8:30 and slept until nearly 7:00 a.m. Then, we went to Champaign on Sunday and he slept through the whole trip - nearly 3 hours, including lunch out for us.

His schedule seemed a bit out of whack at the sitter's yesterday so we figure he is throwing us another curveball. He needs to keep us on our toes regarding his schedule. A few kids at his daycare have been sick so we're keeping our fingers crossed that he doesn't get it.

We picked up his 3-month pictures yesterday. I couldn't pick only one to show you so here are 3. He was really in to smiling that day!

Happy First Valentine's Day!

Although John claims that I set him down a certain way to make him do it, Jeremiah rolled over last night from his belly to his back. Unlike the "mistaken" rollover he did at 3 weeks, this seems to be his own effort.

We've all been at home for the last two days with a blizzard going on outside so he has probably had plenty of us. We think he just wanted to be left alone with no toys in his face for a while last night. He'll go back to the sitters tomorrow and Friday and then he gets to spend the day on Saturday with Grandma Todd.

We had his three-month pictures taken over the weekend and we'll share those soon. He was great and hammed it up for the photographer. In the mean time, here he is sporting his Valentine's Day bib from Uncle Matt and his friend Molly.

Baby it's cold outside!

We've been quite busy at our house and that means that we don't get to the computer. We're sorry that it has been a while since we gave an update. Last week John was in Springfield for business for three days so Jeremiah and I held down the fort. He was so well behaved but by Thursday he was ready for his daddy to come home. He was real quiet on Wednesday night and Thursday morning. He knew something had been out of sorts.

His arms and legs are constantly moving but he has not quite mastered putting all the movement together to roll over yet. Grandma Schnitzler has been "practicing" with him during her recent weekend visits. You can see in the picture what a great job he does of holding his head up during tummy time.

Jeremiah's weeks are never short of adventures at the babysitters and last week he got to go to school to watch the babysitter's daughter Rachel do a school program. He must be relatively well behaved for the babysitter to be willing to take him.

John and I both had to usher at church on Sunday so one of our great church friends, Carol, watched him during church. They drew quite the crowd after church and he was so good for her. He was actually very good all weekend at church because we also had a Faith Stepping Stone class for new parents on Saturday and he was perfectly behaved for all four hours of it.

Today the daycare was closed because Shelly had several doctors' appointments so John stayed home to have an all guys day. That was probably for the best as the windchill was nearly 20 below when I left for work this morning. It was so much easier to not have to take him out.