Wow has the time ever flown by so quickly! To see the changes in you and how quickly you are developing into the charming little boy that will have our hearts, is something quite miraculous. You have brought a joy into our hearts and our lives that I would have never known until you were here. You have taught us so much about the pleasures of life and just how joyous a beautiful little boy can be. You are becoming “your own person” so quickly (sometimes making momma sad :( ) and you have been the biggest joy we could have asked for. I can’t believe that this morning at 8:33 three months ago we were sitting in our hospital room just having made it through the first night of you being with us on this earth.
We have learned a lot, and you have been very patient as we learned how to slip into this new role as a “parent”. In the beginning there was not a day that I wasn’t wondering a different question… still wonder runs my life, but you have helped give us the confidence that we will make the right decisions. We must be doing something right because you are just so wonderful, just as yourself and with your development. Just this morning you gave me a “blowing bubbles spitting noise” (I will have to think of a clever name for that) and I was just smiling like HOLY COW HE IS GROWING! You are really becoming a “boy” and enjoy even the manly activities of watching hockey with Daddy! You are absolutely fascinated with those little men moving around the screen! You have no interest at all in rolling over just yet but I can only assume that the day is on its way quicker than I am sure we wish it was :). Then you will be mobile and a whole new baby will come into play. I can’t believe how sweet your smile is and how it can make the worst of days become the best. You love to smile, however, the higher the voice that is talking to you the better :). You have began to talk and it can be a serious talk too.. I am not quite sure what you are saying just yet, but we will get to that day soon as well. You are beginning to understand the movement of your hands and arms.. Just last night you were in your bouncer and began to hit a baseball that was hanging for your playing pleasure. You batted at it over and over again, we were so proud! You can see the determination in your face as you get it into your head to do something. You really enjoy your bouncer…. You also love Gigi’s playmat with all of the wonderful jungle characters… You love Gigi’s bouncer with the glowing lights and characters of a rainforest.. You get your little limbs going so quickly you would think you are going to just run right out of that seat!
You have started laughing, and I can’t explain how wonderful that sound is.. granted, it has made your dad and I look like complete fools in our attempts to make you give us that beautiful sound! You love being independent! There are times that we are holding you that you give a little struggle and we have no idea why. Until we put you down… you just want to be freeeeeeeeee! I can tell that you will always be that free spirited and independent little man. Although don’t be too independent :)… you will never be too big for this momma to give you those baby smooches :)! At birth you were 6 lbs. 15 oz, At 2 months you were 13 LBS. 9 OZ.! You are growing like a weed and LOVE to eat… I think if you knew just how to make your tongue muscles work that you would lick the inside of the bottle :)! We are going to go buy a scale so that we can weigh ourselves holding you (although mommy really doesn’t want to weigh herself HAHAHA!) so we can see how you grow between doctor’s appts.! You are just so strong.. you have been holding that head since a few weeks old! It’s really amazing!
We noticed last night that it is almost time for us to take out the spongy part of your bathtub that we used for you when you were a newborn because you are fillin’ up the tub on your own. It’s funny how when you were little I just draped you over my arm to wash your back and your bootie… now you stand and bend over my arm…. Little things like that makes it insane how quickly you have changed. We always used to lay you on a cushiony folded up towel laid out on the kitchen counter to strip ya down right before your bath… last night we had to watch it because AS YOUR FEET HUNG OVER THE COUNTER, the top of your head was close to the backsplash of the wall! You are so very long!! You almost go the length of your changing table…. You have a rocking bouncer which you loved so very much to nap in when you were small… We had to fold a blanket to lay you on as it swallowed you when you were smaller like you were laying in a bowl… Now you look like the perfect size, NO BLANKET NEEDED THANKS.
You used to fit so snuggily in your boppy and loved napping in that too as we would lay a blanket over it which made you sink just perfectly into the blanket… making you snug as a bug. (I need to upload a recent boppy picture)
Now you almost hang over it when laying you on your back! You loooove snuggling…. I love when I am holding you, cradling you as I rock you to sleep and you turn into me and pull all your arms and legs in “snuggle bugging” I call it. You are just so sweet… I hope we have lots of snuggling in our future… You also love to be swaddled… we worked on not swaddling you this weekend because your arms are so incredibly strong that you want to be swaddled but then you don’t (which usually wakes you up) and try with all your might to get out. Most of the time you do :)… but then you want to be reswaddled hahaha… It’s crazy how we want something so bad sometimes until we have it, and then we don’t want it anymore :)… That lesson will never be gone from our lives :)… You might be a big, strong boy… however, you still look so small in your bed..
You are a ROCKSTAR with sleeping in your bed! You have been consistently sleeping through the night since I think it was right about 7 weeks… I had a plan all lined out (you will learn that momma is ridiculous with her plans :)… you might have to remind me every once in a while to lay off and that there is no planning when having kiddo fun!). For the longest time you ate between 8-10 pm and then woke up again from 2-3 in the morning to top off your little belly… I was fully ready for you to continue this when I went back to work but you had different intentions… You, being your heavenly angelic self, didn’t wake momma up for your middle of the night feeding one night… Then the next night, same thing.. and next night, still sleeping. To this day… almost 7 weeks later you have continued to sleep from 9-10 pm until we head off to Gigi’s! You are just simply amazing and such a great baby… Seems as if we can figure out what is wrong then you are content although sometimes I think you are just a little overwhelmed with this world and it makes ya a little fussy at one point during the day… Nothing unmanageable though. We are so very lucky and feel so fortunate to have you as our wonderful son.
I can’t believe that 3 months ago we were learning each other so intensely, honestly, your Dad and I were just scared as can be that we wouldn’t be the parents we were supposed to be… you were trying to tell us what you needed while being so new into this gigantic world…. We would work so hard to make you feel loved and comforted, and content. We all work together well… We will always strive to have your love and adoration as your parents… All 3 of us have grown into the great people that we need to be to make our family be what we want it to be. You bring us a love that we didn’t realize was missing until you were here. There is not a day that goes by that my mind doesn’t race with ways to make your life perfect. You have every bit of your dad and I’s hearts.. and all of our desire to give you everything you need and want (there will be more limitations to the wanting as you get older hahaha!). To think of what is ahead of us is both exciting and scary (you growing up :)). I hope that you feel every bit of the love that we have for you every waking (and dreamy) minute. We have endured a lot together from being so tired I don’t realize that you have pooped on me when you were 2 weeks old until your daddy laughed at me for it :), to having laughs together and you becoming the little man that God has blessed us with. We love you so very much… Our cup overfloweth over and over again… We love you to the moon and back… and back again… and back again… infinity. There will never be another to love you the way that these two adoring parents have before you even showed us your beautiful face. You are everything in this life that is beautiful and good. I love you son… I can’t wait for what is to come and how wonderful you keep growing to be.
He is such a cutie pie!!
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