The Séamus Weekly - week 22

It is so hard to believe that Séamus my love is already 22 weeks old!! Man his first year is just flying by!  He is officially 5 months old (as of Christmas Day) and we so enjoyed celebrating his first Christmas. 

 Eats: little man is still on the boob and we're going strong.  He nurses on demand so we don't have much of a schedule in place.  He is nursing throughout the day and night.  He has been starting to get distracted a bit while nursing so that is probably why he is eating more frequently throughout the day.

Sleeps: we have been transitioning him to sleeping without a swaddle which has actually gone fairly well, additionally we are trying to get him to nap more in his crib so that we can transition him in there for nighttime sleep as well.  He does pretty good in his crib so hopefully it will go well.  He is still waking at night to nurse a few times and has been nursing to sleep lately.  I am thinking that once we are successful with the crib transition, the not nursing to sleep will be next!

 

Goes: little Séamus, Finnley and I made it to MOPs for our Christmas meeting and he loves to check out all the ladies! We also made it to Thomas's brother's house for Christmas Eve dinner (a few days early), to Christmas Eve Service (love the candle light service so much), and over to my brother's house for Christmas Day.  We also met up with Thomas's Grandma at the Spaghetti Factory and it was so nice to spend more time together, just like Séamus is the only grandson on Thomas's side, he is also the only Great-Grandson...so he is pretty special.

 my MOPs table

 in the car for Christmas Eve at Thomas's brother's

 at Thomas's brother's for Christmas Eve

at the Spaghetti Factory

 at the Candle Light Christmas Eve Service

Wears: sweet little Séamus is mostly in 3-6 month clothes, though some of the pants are a bit big on him so he still has some 0-3 that fit him.  He is pretty much growing out of size 1 diapers and I'm trying to squeeze him into the last package of them that we have before we need to order more.  I have already updated our Amazon subscription to send us size 2 next month.  I am just loving all the of clothes that we have in this size and it's so much fun dressing our little man!  We had the cousins over and got every one dressed up in warm clothes to play outside...the only hat I could find for little man was an old girly deer hat, so he rocked it!

 

Does: he is absolutely loving tummy time, his exersaucer, and the johnny jump up.  The girls are having a blast playing with him as well and there is no shortage of entertainment around these parts!!

 

Mama: I am just so so happy to have our family complete and all FIVE of us got to celebrate Christmas.  It's so weird to think about me being pregnant this time last year and all we could do was imagine what little bean was growing inside of me.  Now he is here, I am back into all of my pre-pregnancy clothes, and we are loving this stage.  I keep thinking about our infertility journey, all the pain and heartache we experienced, and how that affected my pregnancy.  I'm putting a post together all about it and hope to have it posted in the new year.  But let me just tell you that all of it, while it sucked, was so so good because Séamus is the absolute best!!  I love our family exactly the way that it is and my heart just grows and grows every day watching my THREE children.  

Sisters: good golly these girls love their brother. Thomas and I are constantly telling them to get off of him and "that's enough kisses!!" I mean perfectly fine problems to have!!  Ellie finished up her first part of the year in Kindergarten and is doing an awesome job.  She is super into arts and crafts and drawing and I am not sure if there is enough paper in the world to keep up with her!  She has the best imagination and is such a kind and gentle heart.  Finnley is a firecracker and we love her.  Her vocabulary is growing and I just love listening to her sweet voice.  When she isn't throwing an attitude she is simple the best girl.  She loves to help clean up, is pretty OCD about things, and loves Minnie Mouse so very much.  You can pretty much tell that she has grown up going to Disnleyland!!

We had to do separate sibling pictures this week because Ellie dipped out early to spend some special time with Nanny and Papa and I didn't get my act together.

previous weeks

Séamus week 1, week 2, week 3, week 4, week 5, week 6, week 7, week 8, week 9, week 10, week 11, week 12, 13 weeks, week 14, week 15, week 16, week 17, week 18, week 19, 20 weeks, week 21

Finnley at 22 weeks

Ellie at 22 weeks

♥ Ashley