Jotham went to see Dr. Stewart yesterday and got a great report. He now weighs 8lbs 10oz and is 22in long. In 5 weeks he gained about 2lbs and grew about 3in! He is still well under the growth curve for his age, however, he is growing and getting proper nutrition and she feels he will catch up soon enough. He has now surpassed both his mother and father's birth weight, but he still has some growing to do to catch up with his Uncle Alan who was a 9lb 4oz baby!!! He's still in newborn diapers and clothes, but it's a far stretch from preemie XS diapers! God is good!!
He got 6 vaccines yesterday (one by mouth, but the others, as you can see by the picures were shots). I appropriately dressed him in his "mommy's little hero" suit because I told him he would be my hero and do a great job getting his shots and he did. He was very pleasant until the sticks came then he let out a loud yelp, but he calmed down really quickley after and went back to sleep. So, I told him he was Mommy's Hero today!
The funny thing was he might have yelled just as loud right after this picture was taken when daddy had to rip the band-aids off! I'm not sure which hurt worse, the shot or taking the band-aid off??!!
