Time hasn't stopped or slowed down yet, so here we are at three months old already! If I could stop time I'd keep Alex here forever..okay somewhere between here and nine months old these are my favorite baby months.
Alex doesn't have an official doctor appointment until the beginning of August so I don't have any official weight, height etc. stats. But I stepped on the bathroom scale with him this weekend and he's at at least an official 16 lbs, give or take some ounces cause who know's how accurate that thing is and it only measure to the half pound.
He's still in his 0-3 month clothes mostly because I haven't dragged the tote of 3-6 month clothes down to make the switch, but as you can see from his shirt he won't be squeezing into any of the 0-3 month for much longer!
Alex is sleeping most nights for a good 6 hour stretch, sometimes its longer sometimes its shorter. He still just wakes up to eat and goes right back to sleep so I'm not bothered by his sleep cycle at all. At least he doesn't want mid-night party time or anything! He's still sleeping in his rock and play through his first wake up then he comes in bed with me and stays there. I feel bad on the days when he's actually truly slept through the night and I have to wake him up so that I can feed him before I leave for the day. Nobody who is sleeping well should ever have to be woken up, especially a baby!
Alex still has a great easy going personality. He's generally content to sit and talk to a toy or a blanket so long as his belly is full and his diaper is clean. He get's a little bit fussy when he's tired and will usually go to sleep without help. (As in you don't have to do 10 things the exact right way and rock/shush/sway him to sleep most days)
He really, really wants to be able to sit up, he's spent most of the month trying to sit upright when he's put into anything that has him in a lounge position. (Carseat/swing/bouncer) He love to stand and still hates tummy time with a passion. Lucky him he doesn't even get a chance for much of it with a sister who can't be trusted around a baby on the floor. Eventually going to have to get out the baby fence to keep her away from him I think!
Still exclusively breastfed, I pump at work so he's still getting breast milk at the sitters, he takes about 4 ounces still every 3-4 hours. Or whenever he feels like it. When I've worked all day he wants to nurse 100 times between when I walk in the door around 6:30-7pm until he goes to bed around 10-10:30. I'm tossing around the idea of baby led weaning with him rather than dealing with/using puree's & cereal. I barely used cereal at all with Addison, mostly used just to thicken some of the pureed foods. I don't know for sure I don't have any experience with it and I'm not sure what his pediatrician will say about it. (not that I'll let her opinion on the topic decide what I do in the long run.) If you have experience with it, by all means, please pass on your wisdom!
Alex can all but roll from his back to his belly, that darn arm keeps getting stuck and he can't quite get all the way over but he's sure working at it. Goes along with can't get time on the floor to practice these kinds of things with the sister! :)
I'm not positive but I think Alex has eczema, we've been fighting a patch of really bumpy, dry, itchy skin across his forehead between his eyes for the better part of the month. (Almost like poison ivy rash) I keep on top of putting on ointment and lotion and it heals up, stop for a day or two and its right back. He's also got some dry red patches on the back of one of his elbows, his legs and his chest. Currently it's healed up and I'm trying to keep him all lotioned up to see if some of the other patches will also heal up. Believe me with my lack of spare time putting lotion on my kid 16 times a day is the last thing constantly on my mind. Trying to do it at every diaper change to keep it in my brain. I should make a doctor appointment specifically to figure it out but I'm not a worrier about things in general if it continues to improve I'll just ask about it at his next appointment. But everything I read points to eczema.
I still hate with a passion that I have to leave the kids to come to work Monday - Thursday. It's definitely been harder coming back this time than it was last time, and feels like it's getting harder rather than easier as the days go on. I pretty much HATE it. He's been doing well with the baby sitter though. Doing 100 times better with the bottle that he was in the beginning and so far he's been surviving the crazy that is her house full of kiddo's.
I just love this happy little man.
