Catching up on some fun events in wee Sullivan’s first months.
Here is a pic of Sullivan on his first trip to visit Auntie Carolyn, Uncle Kirk and cousin Ella. Ella and Sullivan (or baby Sul as Ella calls him) are watching a muppet video here with guest star Paul Williams. I can only imagine the kind of adventures these two are going to have in the coming years. Baby Sul sure is lucky to have such a fun and loving big cousin!
The Stats are in and here is how our little man has done during his first two months.
Height: 23inches, 3 inch growth
Head Circ: 15 ¼, nearly 2 inch growth
Motor skills: right on target
Hand Eye Coordination: great
Physical and Social Development: wonderful
Cuteness: beyond compare. (He was flirting and smiling at the nurses.)
Gas: off the charts (Doc has put him on new gas relieving formula. His Gavazzoni/Leberknight traits are becoming more and more apparent by the day.)
For those of you interested in percentages, Sullivan has pulled up in the ranks from around the 5th percentile into the 30th for both weight and height.
Dr. feels it was a great first two months for Sully. Now in his 10th week he is already off on his next growth spurt and new set of skills. Sleeping through most of today and gulping down larger and larger amounts of food to nourish his many daily adventures. He has even dropped one of his feedings at night sleeping nearly 6 hours at a stretch regularly…. so now Mommy and Daddy get even more sleep.
Here we are in week 9 and I made my transition this week back to work. Of course back to work for me does not involve leaving the house or even leaving my pajamas if I don’t want….but the work is still the same, however, and does involve my full attention and ability to attend to my clients needs, ASAP. So, on Monday I experienced my first working mom moment. I was giving Sullivan a bottle and my cell phone rang. I noticed that is was a return call from a perspective client and decided to take it even though baby was in hand. So balancing the bottle under my chin and the baby in one arm, I picked up the call and thus began the comedy. Why I thought I could juggle feeding and important business call is beyond me but I tried and unfortunately failed. Of course Sullivan, a usually peaceful baby, became fussy as soon as I picked up the phone. I tried to pass him off to Damon but he was working a deadline in his home office, the next room. He was experiencing technical difficulties with his MAC(as usual) and didn’t quite understand my frantic mom sign language for “TAKE THE BABY NOW!” So while my perspective client is sharing all of her home buying needs, assuming that I am giving her my full attention, I was actually running around the house trying to figure out where to put the baby while I finish this call…preferably a place where my client will not hear the screams when I lay him down and take his bottle away. Well needless to say I did find a place to set him down while I finished the call, he DID scream when I took his bottle away, and I DID miss half of what my perspective client had shared with me and had to ask her to repeat nearly everything….lucky for me this new client is a working mom herself and was very understanding. So, yes, working from home DOES have its advantages. One, I don’t have to shower if I don’t want, two I can still watch General Hospital at 2, and three Damon and I get to care for and enjoy Sullivan whenever we want in the comfort of our own home….Now if we could just figure out a way to press pause on the work button when both the baby is crying and important calls are coming in. That would then indeed be the perfect work from home system. Wish us luck!
Sullivan Carter Brown – Just plain cute!
Sullivan Carter Brown – Classical Dancer or Karate Master?