Our Life: Killian at 3 months

We are so in love and I'm amazed at how fast babies change. Month in the month leading up to his three month "birthday" Killian has become more and more social. He has been on his first family vacation (Great Wolf Lodge) and taken an airplane ride to visit family in Seattle.

Wolf ears at Great Wolf Lodge!

Prefers to check out the world like this.

Glass museum in Seattle.

Playing with Uncle Kendall in Seattle.

LOVE THIS picture of the little man with Grossmama!

Enjoying the cool - hanging out on a blanket in a grassy area under a tree. Heavenly. He was mesmerized by the way the branches moved and the way the grass felt on his feet.

Solqualmie falls. Another beautiful day.

Waiting for our plane to head back to Dallas. He was not interested in sleeping on either flight but was sweet as could be with everyone.

Here are some highlights of development:

* long pauses when he is thinking of something big to say; louder when talks; verabalizes to get attention if not getting enough attention at the moment

Talking to his crab toy on the bouncy chair.

* blowing bubbles
* holding my finger during feeding

* still working on getting that thumb/hand and rubbing his ear when tired

* July 26 - he started blowing raspberries at me; swatted at and successfully hit a toy on his play mat (while holding on to the arches)

* July 27 - discovered tongue and started playing with it, refused to eat somewhere other than our "normal chair", refused to eat in our normal chair when he could hear a new person talking (other than sisters)
* boo and ba noises
* Can lift his head, but so not a fan of tummy time.

* Prefers to ram his face into the mat as he tenses his body and digs his toes in...sort of working the army crawl instead of actually lifting his face. If this is not successful, he'll just fuss for a second and then lay there as if to say, "I know what you want me to do but I'm not interested."

* August 5 - laughed for the first time
* Tried out the jump thing but his legs are still too short

Sleep
He knows his cues for sleep. Since he was just a few weeks old, Kilian knew what was going to happen when you put him on his swaddling blanket. You could see his body relax as he realized you had figured out exactly what he needed. This was a welcome relief for me after spending so much of the girls' infancy having no idea what to do to stop the tears! When Killian was tired and we would change him before naps he would get angry, very angry. As if he was protesting the fact that he was laying on his changing table and not in his bed. Once he was in his wrap, he'd calm down instantly and usually fuss less than a minute when put in bed before falling asleep. As he has gotten more social, this routine has begun to change. We go in his room and turn his light off on the way to the changing table and I can feel his body tense up. I lay him down to get a clean diaper and he begins to scream. I pick him up and put him in his crib and he gets even madder and will cry for a full ten minutes sometimes before realizing that, "yes, I do need to sleep." However, he does pass out, sleep well, and wake up happy. I'll take it!

So far his pattern has been to take two 45 minute-1 hour naps in the morning with about the same amount of time awake, a 2-3 hour nap around lunch time, and then a tiny 45 minute nap in the late afternoon. He'll then nurse and go down for 8-11 hours before he wakes up again. He almost always wakes at 5 (whether that be his first waking or his second) for a very quick bite and then settles again until 7:30 or so. Good thing he sleeps so much because his sisters are all over him whenever he is awake. As soon as they hear me going to get him, they run in there screaming, "Killian!! Killian! Killian's awake!" They hop on the crib and start talking to him..."Hey little guy. You're awake. Get those stretches out. Hey little man..." Then starts the, "Keeley's there, I can't see him. He's looking at Kayden...why won't he look in my eyes." I pick him up and get ready to change him and Keeley moves his changing pad to the floor so they can get even more all over him. So far I've been surprised because there have been no girls climbing in his crib. That was one of the first things Keeley figured out after Kayden was born - she was climbing in sister's crib before she ever tried to get out of her own. He really loves his sisters though and just smiles and stares at all this commotion and all that comes after.

Attempting his "photo shoot" I got all of one picture