3 Months Old Today!

The Shrinking Monkey...

Newborn (1 week old)

1 Month Old

2 Months Old (Actually a little closer to 2.5 months)

3 Months, the rest were all taken today

I think this picture (above) makes Nick look like he has a pretty good tummy, but it seems to be more the camera angle and how he's sitting, because it looks big to me

Nicholas is 3 months old today! He has grown so much in the past 3 months. At birth, he was 6 pounds 3 ounces. At his 2 month check up he was 11 pounds 1 ounce. I took him to a breastfeeding store and weighed him this past week (fully clothed and diapered) and he was 12 pounds 11 ounces. So he is a growing boy. He was 18 inches long at birth and at his 2 month check up was 22.75 inches. His pediatrician says both his height and weight at 2 months were 25th to 50th percentile, so he is nice and consistent for those. He has filled out so nicely and now has some rolls of baby fat on his legs. We are doing a combination of cloth and disposable diapers. He's in small size cloth (started with a few in XS) and has just moved to size 2 disposables this past week. 1's possibly would still work, but since we don't go through them so quickly, I bought 2's last time. He is still wearing 0-3 month clothes (the yellow giraffe romper is one of the smaller 0-3's he has). I think he is getting close to being ready for 3-6 so I'm starting to get everything washed and assembled in his room for him.

Nick has started showing a lot more interest in his activity gym and bouncy seat with lights and music recently. He loves to watch Emily run around and Emily has taken a new interest in him and likes to give him a kiss before bed and asks about him more now when he isn't around (napping). Nick is very alert and watches everything around him with very wide eyes. He has started to adjust his sleeping and is doing better at night, but I'm still up a couple of times with him. We are still working on lengthening his naps. He doesn't seem to be quite developmentally ready for a longer nap yet, so he still takes a lot of short cat naps. According to my favorite sleep "bible" the naps should start consolidating in months 3-4 so we're hoping that happens.

Nick has been a relatively fussy baby. It's tough to compare his fussiness to Emily's because the circumstances have been different. If he can be held all of the time then he is relatively happy (most of the time). I didn't have to put Emily down as a young baby, but Nick often needs to be set down because Emily needs my help with something. His fussiness is definitely improving, so I'm hoping that the next month brings more improvement.

Overall, we've had a great and busy first 3 months with Nick. He's a sweetie and definitely a cuddler. He'll move homes before he hits 4 months, but hopefully shortly after that we can fully get into a nice daytime routine with him.