3 Months Old

Will is already 3 months old!  He is growing like a weed, and is already outgrowing some of his 6 months clothing.  One evening he was particularly fussy and nothing seemed to calm him.  Then I noticed that he kept trying to stretch his legs out, but never could quite get a full stretch in the sleeper he was wearing.  So I stripped him down and put him into a 9 month sleeper, and he was 100% better.  We're happy that it is getting warmer outside so he can start wearing shorts, and length won't be quite so much of a concern.

Will is really starting to want to be in the middle of all the action.  He still loves his swing and is usually fairly content swinging by himself, but if he starts to fuss it's usually just that he wants someone to come over and talk to him.  He'll usually stop fussing right away, and switch over to big smiles if someone talks to him and pays him the attention that he needs.  He's giving us some good smiles in the pics above.  Ellie loves to sit by him and have little conversations with him.  She'll raise her voice up into the higher baby talk and say, "Hi, Sweet Boy.  You have something to tell me?" and then Will will "goo" and "gah" back to her.  It's adorable.  Ellie was even the first to really get the big giggles out of Will, though we've all learned how to get him to laugh now.  Jason is great at finding his tickle spots, and there is nothing sweeter than hearing little baby giggles.  Unfortunately, Will inherited the same hiccup response to laughter that Ellie has...whenever they start laughing too hard they always get the hiccups.  Bummer.

Will has also improved in the sleep department.  He goes down around 8pm and will usually wake only once during the night between 1:30 and 2:30 to eat, then goes back to sleep till about 6am.  Sometimes he'll wake a little earlier at 5:00am, which sounds terrible, but is actually not too bad because then he'll go back to sleep till after 7am, whereas if he sleeps till 6am he's usually up for the morning at that point.  Both of the other kids had their first, random, sleep-through-the-night by this age, but Will has yet to grace us with that event.  He did however give me the first gift of Mother's Day and slept till 4:30am on that Sunday morning (at just shy of 10 weeks old).  That was the longest stretch he had ever slept (8 hours), and I suppose that probably counts as sleeping through the night.  Unfortunately he only did that a couple of nights, then went back to waking between 1:30 and 2:30.

Will is filling out all over and is starting to get some chub.  I just love little, squishy, baby legs, and I could smooch on his sweet cheeks all the live long day.  Love him bunches.