The Week of Hairy Tales

Lucien is 18 weeks old and is showing signs of development every day.  His hair growth has been pretty stunted until now.  It is long enough now that you can just barely make out a part.  In the back it is really long at the nape of his neck which causes a dark patch of hair on the back of his head - it's his baby mullet.  Pretty soon his hair will grow out on top and we won't be able to make out his spirals at the top of his head.  When Lucien was born Pau-Pau was interested in his spirals and told us that Lucien may be a naughty kid because he has 2 spirals in his hair.  Luckily it wasn't 3 spirals.  This week, Grandma Jean came over the other day and remarked on how much hair has grown in on his eyebrows.  She said "babies do not have eyebrows".  Is this true?  Well, Lucien must be getting his Conway eyebrows in early.

Lucien is still turning over a lot.  He is starting to turn back the other way so he doesn't stuck like he was the previous week.  He plays with his hands a lot more and loves checking all his little toys.  We think he has s

tarted teething or has some gum irritation because he keeps rubbing his mouth.  Lucien still eats his cereal once a day but now he takes rice cereal or the mixed grain cereal.  His digestion has become much better and his system is regular again.  The colic/reflux is pretty much non-existent these days.  

Now that Lucien isn't in pain anymore in the evening we started a night time routine to get him to fall asleep on his own.  He's getting too heavy to rock sleep each night.  His routine consists of a change into PJs, a feeding, being placed in the crib, a bedtime story, a kiss on the 

forehead, and a soothing CD to fall asleep to.  It also consists of his favorite thing to snuggle with - his little bear blankie buddy.  The first 2 nights he cried himself to sleep for about 10 minutes but since he drifts of to sleep without a peep.