Week 12 - Routine and Exception

Tomorrow Noah will enter his 13th week. His awake/nap/sleep schedule during both day and night starts to become more predictable.

• Morning starts around 7ish, almost always super happy and talkative
• Stay awake and mostly happy the entire morning with little 10-20min naps here and there. Wants to do lots of activities, playing with mommy or daddy, jumperoo, and going around in the baby carrier. 
• Have a long nap (2-3 hours) in the early afternoon, then woke up, usually happy, stay active until early evening
• Early evening(starts around 5, 6ish)  is the worst part of day for Noah. He tends to be really fussy. This is the time when he demands to be held by mommy, and cry bloody murder otherwise.
• Fell asleep around 8ish. Before midnight he would wake up every 30-45 min for a little cuddle, then go back to sleep. 
• Sometimes request a evening bottle before mid-night, sometimes not.
• usually woke up once during the night around 1 or 2. then sleep till 5ish.

We started to put him to sleep in his crib a couple of days ago. He has been doing pretty well.

Eating is another matter altogether. Sometimes he would take the bottle without any fuss even when he was not drowsy. But sometimes he acts really confused, one minute he is sucking on the bottle vigorously as if he was famished, the next minute he would spit the bottle out and wriggling like crazy and crying too, then a few minutes later, he would drink up the entire bottle peacefully. 

but as long as he is hydrated(producing enough wet diapers) and not losing weight, i guess we need not worry.

Another development is that he started to pay attention to toys and the dog (cats are still not in his radar yet, maybe cuz they are too small and mostly stay on the ground which is not yet in his line of sight.)

Overall, he has become a much happier baby than his newborn stage. I finally feel like I'm getting a full night of sleep and can get through the day without any naps.