At three days old, Kurt took off his watch and put it right in front of Lukas’ face and Lukas not only followed with his eyes but also actually turned his head a little to follow the path of the watch. Kurt’s mother stayed with us for two weeks after Lukas was born and he amazed her with how well he held his head up when only a few days old. We even caught him making sounds that bore a striking resemblance to laughing in those few days.
Lukas smiles when he sees me, although he’s probably just thinking, “Lunch has arrived!” The other day I was talking to Lukas and I swear the boy really laughs already. He grinned and made a small laughing like sound. It was like he was thinking, “That’s funny, my food is talking to me.” He pretty much has a one-track mind. Food. You can tell this by the boy’s rolls. Dude has rolls on his rolls.
Lukas measured nineteen inches at birth and weight in at nine pounds and two ounces. At his one week appointment he was already well on his way to gaining back any weight he has lost after birth. He weigh nine pounds and the nurse measured him at twenty-one and a half inches. Obviously he didn’t grow two and a half inches in one week. The nurse said that the length/height is all an estimate until the child is about five years old, but with her method of measurement, I’m thinking twenty-one and a half inches is more accurate. Instead of laying a measuring tape next to the wriggling baby, she marks the paper on the patient bed at the top of the head and then stretches the little kicking legs out and marks the paper at the bottom of the feet taking the measurement between lines.
Before going to Lukas’ two-week appointment, Kurt and I guessed The Boy’s weight and went by The Price Is Right rules, highest guess that does not go over, to determine the winner. Kurt guessed ten pounds four ounces and I guessed ten pounds eleven ounces. I lost. I was half an ounce over. Boy weighed in at ten pounds ten and a half ounces. He measured twenty-two inches at that appointment.
On December thirtieth we took the boy in for an unscheduled appointment. It’s very common for breastfed babies to develop breast buds because of the hormones in the milk, and I knew this. What I didn’t know was that those buds would actually feel like solid lumps. The bigger concern however was that one lump was a little smaller than a dime and the other side was about the size of a quarter. My boy had lopsided man-boobs. The doctor said the unevenness was unusual but that there weren’t any signs of infection so he should be fine. He told us to watch for redness and warmth, basically to watch for signs of infection. The booby buds went down completely after about a week. There is no need for a manzier yet. At that appointment Mr. Man weighed in at eleven pounds four ounces and a half ounces.
At his two-month appointment yesterday, Lukas was in the seventy-fifth percentile across the board. He weighed in at thirteen pounds and eleven and a half ounces. He is twenty-four inches long and his head circumference is fifteen and three quarters. He did really well with the shots. He only cried briefly after each one. They hit him with force in the evening though. He woke screaming from a sound sleep and it was tough calming him down. He looked a lot like Sophia did after her shots only bigger and with less hair.
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