3 Months!!!

I can not believe my big baby boy is already 3 months old!!!  He is getting so big so fast and I want it to slow down.  He is absolutely just perfect and I still wish I could be with him all day long everyday!!  He does seem to be a little needy but it's really something I can't control.  When I pick him up after work and we go home I pretty much talk to him and play with him the whole eveing since I don't see him all day and he loves this and obviously wishes we could do it all day long cause he whines when someone is not in his face or holding him. I know I shouldn't do that but I just can't help it.  He does like his activity center so that will keep him occupied for a little while and for the most part he likes tummy time.  There are times he just does not want to be on his tummy or playing and he will let you know.   I have even been neglecting my husband in the evenings until Brody's bedtime (7:30-8:30 depending on how tired he is).  I don't know the last time I actually cooked him a good supper, I usually just throw a link of sausage in to boil.  And since I am still so tired I usually fall asleep on the couch shortly after Brody goes down (and wake up very grouchy to go to my bed) or just go lay down in bed while he is still watching TV.  He still does pretty good at night time with last night being an exception.  He just didn't seem to want to sleep at all last night so neither did mommy, but we don't have those nights that often.  He has gone the whole night 8:00-5:00 a few times but usually he still wakes up around 3-3:30 for a bottle.  Sometimes I can just give him his paci and he goes back to sleep but not always.  We are still having issues with him keeping his head turned to the right side but we are working on that.  I don't always make him turn it cause he does get fussy but I do try to keep it turned more than people (Bert) realize.  He has been sleeping with it turned to the left.  Sometimes we turn it when he's already passed out but a few nights he has fell asleep with it already turned all on his own!  He is still getting 4-5 oz bottles, but when he drinks all 5 oz he acts like he could really go for more so maybe soon we will be moving up to 6 oz.  About 2 weeks ago he was at 14lbs 4oz so I'm pretty sure were over 15.  He has really good head control.  This past weekend on tummy time I noticed him really pushing himself up on his arms and was just amazed at this so Monday I put him down again while Bert and Chris were there to see if he would do it again for someone else to see and he did!!!  He was on his activity center and I was kind of standing back a little and he had his head way up high looking at me pushing himself up with his fore arms.  He was just smiling away (if he could laugh out loud I bet he would of been) and kicking his little feet.  He kept pulling his legs up and pushing out like he wanted to get to me, so he has the concept of crawling down he just needs to work on it some more.  When he would push himself forward a little he didn't know to move his arms and he would face plant but popped back up smiling!!  I have also started pulling him up to a sitting position by his arms and he just thinks that is funny!!  I really think that I am going to have a thumb sucker on my hands, not exactly excited about this because you can take a paci away I just think it would be really hard to break him of this, but he hasn't quiet figured it out yet.  He really sucks on his hand a lot and a couple times I have caught him with his thumb in his mouth.  Now I know he doesn't know what he's doing yet but I just have a feeling.  And he loves his blankie!!  He always has that thing in his face chewing on it.  I really have to be careful with him cause he will cover his whole face up and that scares me a little.  I'm hoping to buy him some new toys in the next couple weeks. I have been researching like crazy for the best thing to buy him right now.  They have a kick and play piano that has really good reviews with babies his age but there is a jumperoo that has great reviews for babies starting around 4 mths and if he has good head control now he might be ready for that around 4 mths so not sure what we are going to do there.  I would hate to buy him a toy that he will only use for a month but I really think he gets bored sometimes with what he has and needs a change of scenery.  I guess I could always use this stuff for the next one!!

This past weekend was really busy for us.  Brody has already been to a JV football game to see his cousin Nick play but we went to our 1st Varsity game and he did really well!  He really likes being in his stroller so since Daddy just stands along the fence at every game we decided to stroll him in there and park!  There was only 2 times he got a little fussy, the first he was hungry and the second he was super tired and couldn't sleep through the loud noise.  He did doze off a couple times but at every good play he would wake up from the screaming.  Saturday we went to Victoria and did a little shopping.  I wanted to find him some wrangler blue jeans (like Daddy's) cause we wanted to go to the rodeo at Breckenridge later.  Well we had no luck but I did buy him a few new clothes since we are in 6 mth clothing already.  When we finally got home I barely had time to change us and get him fed and get there before it started.  We were about 15 minutes late but that has been happening a lot lately.  Again we took him in his stroller.  Poor baby was so tired when we got there and transferred him from his car seat he never woke up but when we got inside the arena it was loud and he was wide awake.  He only started to fuss one time and I got him calmed down pretty quick.  The rodeo's are never really long so I think we were out of there in about 2 hours.  He slept all night that night!!  I'm just really happy that we are both ok with taking Brody to different places and meeting new people all the time.  Sometimes I think he is a little overwhelmed but he does really good around a lot of people!  This weekend I promised him I would go one whole day without putting him in his car seat so we will see how that goes.  He doesn't hate it but you can tell he gets tired of going in and out of it. 

I did forget to mention in my last post that Brody has 2 new little girl cousins!!  Paislyn Brooke Drapela was born on Sept 19, 2011 weighing 6lbs 4 oz!! Congrats Nathan and Jessica!!  Also Rhemy Beth Beard was born on Sept. 17, 2011 weighing 6lbs 4.5oz!!  Congrats Robert and Kelly!!  We can't wait to meet both of these beautiful little girls!!

I will leave y'all with a few pics that Aunt Dory took today for Brody's 3mth Birthday!