For the most part Nicholas is a really good baby!! He nurses like a champ and has a really good appetite!! He weighs roughly 13 pounds!! Yup he is a big boy!! He has the chubbiest little cheeks, and his thighs are starting to get chunky!! He is wearing three month clothes, and fills them out pretty good!! (especially in length, not so much around the middle) He eats every 2.5 to 4 hours. For the last week he has had his nights and days mixed up, which means that at around 3 in the morning he is wide awake want to look around. Some nights its pretty frustrating, when all I can think about is crawling back into my nice warm bed. Zac is pretty helpful on these nights and will take a shift (if it occurs on a weekend) so that I can have a rest!! Most nights he will usually give me a good 4 hour stretch and sometimes a 3 hour stretch were I can get some sleep!
He absolutely loves his vibrating bouncy chair!! Every morning I put him in the chair in the bathroom, so that i can shower! He also likes the sound of the blow dryer. If he is fussy he usually settles when i start to blow dry my hair, but starts up again when I turn it off. this is great for me!! We have a swing for him, but it is hit and miss. On the days that he likes it, it is only for a very short time.
For the most part we have found that he loves just laying on the floor and stretching out in the evenings. We do tummy time with him, but he doesn't like it very much when it on the floor, but if i lay down on the couch and put him on my stomach he likes it much better and will raise his head!! He does pretty good at holding his head up and every day he is getting better, and lasting longer! He also likes to stand up, its so cute!! He will push up and stand for a little while but eventually just starts to squat!! For Christmas we are going to get him a free standing jolly jumper, I think that he will like it!!
He sleeps in our room, and some nights he ends up in bed with us! Which I said I would never do, but when he starts to cry and will only settle when I'm holding him I do it just so that I can get some sleep!! We have purchased a monitor and I am excited to get it so that we can start to put him in his own room at night. I think that I will sleep better, and hopefully he will too. We are just going to gradually do this, and if it doesn't work then he will probably stay in our room for a while longer.
He has such a cute little personality and I fall in love with him every day!! I love the way he gets so excited when it is time to eat and waves his head back and forth, then when he latches on he does this cute little giggle!! I love the way he sucks right into me, so close, when I'm feeding him!! I love that he already knows me as his mom! I love being able to know what he needs ( well for the most part)!! I love how he has started to do raspberries, although not so much a fan when he does it right after eating!! I just love being his mom!! I'm so excited to watch him grow and learn!! We love you Nicholas!!
