Three Months.

 

This post is overdue.  (Graysen is four months, four days old today.)  Better late than never.

At three months, Graysen likes to smile at everything. Especially his bear mobile and his big sister.

He giggles when I suck out his nose with a bulb syringe.

He coos and gurgles when we talk to him.

He cries when he's lonely.  And during tummy time. And when the bear mobile music stops.

He loves attention from anybody, and being sung to.  We love when he's cuddly, his sweet smiles and his happy sounds. We also love that his reflux is not so bad any more and that he's sleeping for 6-7 hours at night (Yay!).

He's growing so fast!

Here's Your Host...

This is Madison pretending to be Cat Deely.

(I watch a lot of Hulu while I'm feeding the baby.)

She cocks her head and says, "Ladies and gentlemens, so you think a dance!" and then tells me, "Mom, you say 'yay.'"

Please note the best post-nap hair ever.  And yes, that is a plastic eggplant microphone.  Cat Deely's got nothing on that.

Sundays

 

Sundays kind of wear us out. 

  

Because of our church schedule, Madison doesn't get her afternoon nap, and we don't get home until nearly 5:00pm.  Every week the kids fall asleep on the way home.  We transfer them to the living room and let them keep on sleeping.

And then Micah and I eat dinner alone. 
With no interruptions.
And we love it.

It's like date night.  It's quickly becoming my favorite part of the week.  Tonight we made ourselves chocolate chip waffles and blueberry italian sodas.  Being the parents is AWESOME.

sleep ?

Last night, Graysen put in a full six hours of sleep.

Madison was up screaming at 4am with an earache.

Oh the irony. 

Hoping for more sleep soon. It's so hard to wake up tired every morning. 
Lucky for me I have a Mr. who let's me sleep in on Saturdays!

Growing.

Today

Graysen is 2 months old

Eight pounds, 8 ounces

20 inches long

(And grumpy, because he had to get shots.)

 His eyes are getting lighter, his eyelashes are getting darker, and he's getting chubbier all over. His cry is getting louder, although it still sounds like a squeak toy and still makes us laugh.  He's sleeping a lot less during the day and a little more at night.  When he's awake he's so alert and  focuses on our faces and follows our voices, and makes a sweet little open mouthed "O" face.  We haven't gotten any smiles out of him yet, but we try real hard.  I'm willing to bet the first person he smiles at is Maddi.

He loves the binkie. He loves to be swaddled. He doesn't love tummy time.  He'll push up on his arms so hard that he rolls onto his side or back.  He's the strongest little thing. When I put him up on my chest, he pushes off and leans away from me, holding up his head and looking around.  Except when he's asleep, then he kind of burrows into my chest and I press my cheek against his little peach fuzz and smell his baby smell and wish he could stay this little forever. 

Unfortunately, he's also started having issues with acid reflux, which makes us all pretty miserable sometimes.  He spits up and gags and sputters all day long, and lately it's started to cause him a lot of pain, which means not so much sleep for anyone.  At least we know somewhat how to deal with it, since Madison had the same problems with reflux, and we're hoping he grows out of this stage sooner than later.  No fun to see our baby hurting so much.

So far my some of my favorite things about Graysen are the way he turns toward my voice when I talk, and gets really quiet when Micah sings.  I love how he just stares at his sister, and when he pokes his little tongue out.  I especially love the way his fuzzy hair sticks straight out in little tufts after he's been sleeping, and how he grabs onto my finger and hangs on so tight.  He's such a sweet boy, and we love him like crazy!