Our big guy is 3 months old!

Our big guy is 3 months old! We can hardly believe so much time has passed already.  I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – time is flying and needs to slow down a little.  Mitchell has really started interacting with us in the past few weeks.  Gone are the days when he spent most of his time sleeping.  He’s awake all the time now and he loves to be held and for us to talk to him.  He seems fascinated by people’s faces.  I love to talk to him and make faces and then watch him react.  His eyes widen and his eyebrows raise.  He looks perplexed…and then he wrinkles his nose and breaks out a little grin.  It’s adorable and I never get tired of it.  He’ll ‘talk’ back at us too.  I was talking to him and he said ‘ah’ and ‘ooh’ so I repeated those noises back to him and he kept right on baby-talking to me.  We joke that he’s not going to be able to get a word in edgewise with a chatterbox for a sister, but if this keeps up we may have two chatterboxes on our hands!  Last Thursday, I got Mitchell to giggle for the first time by tickling him.  It wasn’t a very big giggle, but I was excited anyway.  Evie heard him and couldn’t wait to make him laugh too.  I had to remind her to be gentle when tickling him and when he gave her a little laugh, she just lit up.  Since then, we’ve gotten Mitch to give us little laughs more and more.  A few nights ago I really had him giggling when I was tickling his belly.  

He is such a happy baby most of the time.  He rarely cries for no reason.  He’ll fuss when he’s hungry, tired, needs diaper change or wants to be picked up and held.  But he’s very content most of the time.  I can lay him on his play mat and he’ll stare at the ceiling fan and kick his legs.  He loves to be in his swing and he really likes it when I prop him up on the pillows on our bed so he can sit up and see the whole room.  He enjoys taking walks in the stroller and being outside.  I mentioned before that he likes to sit up and I wasn’t kidding.  Almost since day one, we’ve remarked that he has incredible head control and a really strong neck muscles.  He also has really strong legs.  He’d rather be in a sitting or standing position than laying down.  So far, he’s been a great sleeper at night.  He doesn’t sleep through the night all the time, but he’s done it several times now so I think we’re on the right track.  Mitch is a good eater too.  For as big as he is, it’s surprising that he doesn’t’ eat more.  People are always asking me “Does he eat all the time?” because he’s such a big guy.  But he really doesn’t.  He eats about every 3 hours and if he takes a bottle, it’s usually about 4- 4.5oz.  This is almost exactly what Evie did and she was a smaller baby at this age. He fits into his 6 month clothes and I think we’ll probably be moving into 9 months sooner rather than later.  It’s strange because he’s so big, but still so young, and sometimes I feel like we forget that and treat him like an older baby or expect him to be doing stuff that he’s just not ready to do.  We’ve been putting him on his belly and give him lots of tummy time, but as of now, he hasn’t rolled over.  He’ll move himself off the mat or around in circle, but that’s about it.  He’ll get there!  

 

 Unfortunately, Mitch wasn’t feel great on his 3 month birthday.  I think he’s coming down with a cold and he spent the night coughing and the day sneezing.  So far no fever.   I’m hoping that this will pass quickly and that he doesn’t get any worse.  There is so much sickness going around right now that it’s hard not to worry.  Even though he wasn’t feeling the greatest, he still gave me a big smile when I took his picture.  I just love this little man to pieces!