Spencer: Three Months

Sweet, happy Spencer,

This month you have become the most interactive baby.  You LOVE talking, cooing, and LAUGHING.  Your laugh is the best.  You snort when you laugh.  You are tickelish under your chin, on your collarbone, and under your armpits.  You laugh in anticipation of being tickled.  

Every morning when I come get you out of your crib you are smiling.  You smile so big!  It melts my heart and every morning I am reminded that I am the luckiest mom in the world.  You were a HUGE surprise in my life and I honestly wasn't sure if I could love another baby as much as I loved Colin but God showed me that love does not divide, it only multiplies.  And you my son, have stolen my heart.

This month you have made a big change to sleeping exclusively in your crib.  And you are doing great!  You sleep a good 6-7 hour stretch, eat around 3am and then make another 4 hour stretch before getting up for the day.  You are much happier with an early bedtime of 8pm and you sleep really well too.  We are happy and know we are lucky that you are a good nighttime sleeper.  Naps on the other hand-- are short and not too often.  You cat nap a few times during the day.  A morning nap, an afternoon nap, and a post dinner nap are about all you need.  Each lasting for about 45 minutes.  Otherwise you are awake and happy as can be.

You are incredibly interactive though- you want to be talking to someone all the time.  You are not too happy about being left on the floor to play by yourself or left in your swing alone for too long if you can't see someone.  I don't blame you however it makes this "working from home" gig a bit tougher.  

You have no desire to roll over at all right now.  We keep coaching you and trying to help you but you are very uninterested.  I know you'll do it when you want to.  You like tummy time still but you usually look like you'll fall asleep if I leave you on your tummy long enough.  Again, no desire to roll over.  And your brother still ADORES you and you smile and laugh at him a ton.  I think your favorite time of day is when Colin gets home from school.  

I can't believe you are three months old already.  You have been such a blessing and pure JOY!  Don't grow up too fast my littelest!  XOXO Love, Mama

I Didn't Fall Off the Face of the Earth...

... I've just chosen to enjoy motherhood instead of blog.  And when I'm not being mom, I'm being a wife.  So life has been crazy busy.  And I love it.  But honestly I qthink about and miss this blog so much.  I'm hoping as Spencer gets older, I can find a little more time to stop by here more often.  Sure I'll still do his monthly updates and big events but the daily, or should I say weekly posts will be less frequent.  So as a reward for someone stopping by to say hi... here is picture overload (mostly pictures I haven't put on my instagram or facebook accounts)!
Both boys are 2.5 months in these pictures...

 Brothers

 Colin LOVES his red Chuck Taylor shoes!

 Obsessed!

 Colin's favorite teacher, Ms. Jen left his school.  This was one of her last days there and Colin was climbing all over her.  He just loves her!

 Learning to share is hard but Colin figured it out!

 Hi love bug!

 My littlest monkey!

 St. Patrick's Day

 First tub bath

 A little tummy time

 Loved his Valentine's gift from Ga-Ga!

 Valentine's Day donut from Mama!

 Dinner time!

 What else would you do with daddy's slippers?