Calvin Tyler: Thirteen weeks old

Calvin sure is a happy little guy lately. He loves his sleep, but in between naps, he's happy and smiley. This week his schedule was three 30-60 minute naps and then one giant 2-4 hour nap each day. Sometimes this was the first nap of the day, but usually more towards mid day. He still doesn't like to be up more than about 60-90 minutes at a time. He sometimes ends up being awake for 2-2.5 hours in the evening only because we are trying to not let him take a nap at 7:00 at night. We try to time it that his last nap is around 5:00, but sometimes that just doesn't happen.

The big news this week is Calvin moved to his own room and we are all sleeping great! He's been in there four nights. The first night I woke a lot to stare at the monitor, but now I'm feeling refreshed after a better night of sleep. Calvin grunts and kicks from about 4:30-6:30 every single morning in his sleep. This meant I was basically awake form 4:30 on each day. We can't hear this through the monitor so I am able to go back to sleep after his 4 am feeding. The boys also spoiled us by both sleeping until 7:30 Saturday and Sunday!

We got to be outside a lot this weekend and Calvin is starting to like the outdoors more and more. He will sit in his stroller and watch big brother play. He really likes it when the neighbors stop to talk to him. He is a social little guy and is all smiles when people peek into the stroller and talk to him.

The other big news is that Calvin's allergy tests came back as negative! The doctor did warn us that false negatives could happen this early, but we are hopeful that isn't the case. We also have the green light to do the early introduction of foods beginning at four months since allergies are in the family. The current research in the allergy field is showing that severe allergies can be avoided by introducing common allergens in between 4-6 months. I'm planning to talk with our doctor at his four month check up and our allergist to get their advice on how to do this.