8 week check up

Yesterday Hudson went in for his 8 week check up, and shots (we went a little early since we're flying next week). He got three pokes in his legs, and did pretty darn well during the process. He only cried for a minute, then came home and went to sleep almost right away. Little did we know that this was the WRONG thing to do. When we woke him up a couple hours later to eat, he quickly began screaming bloody murder - because of the pain in his legs. This crying - which i hope to NEVER experience again, wishful thinking i'm sure - lasted about 20 minutes, or in my mind, forever. It was horrible. After a call to the doctor and some infant tylenol, light massaging and icing, we were able to calm him down a bit. But like I said, it was horrible. Once the medicine kicked in, he did much better. Thankfully. It took me a little longer to get the knots out of my shoulders from that one though.

Beyond that, the good news is we got an update on his weight, etc!

Weight: 11 lbs. 5 oz. (60% nationally)

Height: 22 3/4 inches (55%)

Head circumference: 15 1/4 (35%)

So he is in the normal range of everything - though the doctor took one look at his feet and said he's going to be tall!! So we'll be expecting that growth spurt sometime in the future.

We are finding that he is fitting into his 3 month clothes now, which means i'm going to have to start changing his outfit several times a day to get enough wear out of all the cute things he has. :) It also means I need to assess what we have beyond that and make sure he has clothes for when those ones get too small! It's crazy to look at him now and next to the clothes he was wearing when he was born, already hard to believe he was that small!