Pacifier or no Pacifier

Caleb is now 10 weeks old and he doesn't seem to really like a pacifier, most days. However in the last week on three different occasions he wanted and loved his pacifier. So I would try again the next day and he would chew on it but not suck on it, and when I took it away he didn't care. I keep trying to give him a pacifier since all other babies love their pacifiers but I don't think he wants/likes/or needs a pacifier.

He fell asleep almost immediately after getting the pacifier.

Here he is holding the pacifier

I don't know if you can tell, but he isn't sucking on the pacifier. Which means if falls out every two seconds or so. Some days when this happens he cries until you put the pacifier back in his mouth and the cycle stars all over again. Other days it falls out and he doesn't notice.

Oh and a bit of back story. I tried giving him a pacifier when he was born and he did not like it. I tried again for a bit. Then gave up on them because we were having trouble with breast feeding and I wasn't feeding him often enough and I was trying to read his cues and was concerned that a pacifier was interfering with my ability to read him. Then he would bring his hands to his mouth kind of gumming on them and sometime sucking so I tried a pacifier again. That was a few weeks ago.

So does this mean my child isn't a pacifier kid? Do I have the wrong type of pacifier (I've tried two other types which he had even less interest in)? Did I ruin his ability to take a pacifier by not trying harder earlier? Does it even matter if my child uses a pacifier?

Caleb hanging out with Daddy after work

This was after Caleb's shots :( notice the band aids.

on Christmas day

Our Christmas card photo, this picture took a while to get.
Notice my hand bracing in case the little man looses his balance or Max hears a door bell.

Well I thought we were doing really well with sleeping. I even bragged to a few friends at church. Evidently Caleb didn't want me to get a big head, so he decided to wake up about three more times during the night than "usual". The last few nights have been not so wonderful. He's been waking up every two hours, sometimes after an hour. Chris says he thinks Caleb is going through a growth spurt. Which I hope is true because then it means this is just temporary and not that we have regressed in sleeping during the night.

It seems that just we I think we are getting the hang of this and we have some semblance of a pattern established, it changes. At least I can't be mad at Caleb cause he is just too cute. He has started smiling. It is wonderful. Now this does not happen all the time but it is nice to see that he is getting more interactive.

In other news Caleb can now roll from his stomach to his back. Still working on going the other way, which it looks like will be quite some time (those arms keep getting in the way).

He looks so big in a big boy outfit.

looking serious

playing with his hands (this only lasted a second or so)

an adorable smirk