Almost rolling the other way

Last night A decided to roll back to tummy and was determined to do it each time he laid on his back. Unfortunately, that pesky shoulder got in the way!

Roll Over

Here he was at 10.5 weeks rolling over.  He replicated it probably 10 or 15 times but hasn't been so interested in it lately.

3 months old

He just keeps changing!  Between his second and third month, our baby became a smile machine who loves to make eye contact, perhaps most with the baby in the mirror in his gym.  He grabs at toys with both hands and puts whatever he can into his mouth, most often part of his fist.  He's also started rolling his head around while lying on the ground and losing a lot of hair as a result.  And the biggest news is that at 10 and a half weeks he started to turn over!  He flipped from his tummy to his back and we have it on video (soon to come).  He probably has done it 10-15 times but in the past week has been less interested in it.  He is just starting to giggle for us and I think that might be unleashed in the coming weeks.  Ok, enough of this...the pictures are what you come here for!

Quality time with mom and dad

Sometimes while on maternity leave when it got to the point where I really needed a nap, A and I would nap together.  And often, Nanaa would join us as well.  B caught us.

One of B's favorite things to do with A is to read to him.  He was catching up on his national geographic subscription.  The look on A's face in the second picture is just my favorite.

Baby's first plane ride

When A was 9.5 weeks old we packed up and headed to Kansas City to visit my cousin/best friend/"sister equivalent" and her husband with their new baby and their 2.5 year old baby.  Our flight was really early, still kind of in the middle of the night actually, so that worked in my favor for A to sleep.  But really, who can resist sleeping on an extremely loud and bumpy sleep machine?

I tried to get a photo of his first plane ride.  This was the best I could do.  I had a really hard time even waking him to get him to eat.

We walked around the airport in the Ergo Baby carrier.  My coworker lent us the infant insert which keeps his head from flopping around too much.

We were greeted by my cousin and both of her daughters.  This one was on pacifier duty between the two infants.  She did a great job!

When we got there, he needed to do some wiggles.  This playmat was a huge hit...particularly the monkey!

I ended up putting him in his St Patrick's Day outfit before the end of the day.

My other cousin came over with his son who is 19 days older than A.  They enjoyed playmat time together.

 Triple tummy time!

We took a selfie for dad.  His cheeks look pretty enormous in this one.

My grandma and aunt came to KC for the day to visit and hold the babies.  My cousin and I got pedicures.  When we left, they were seated in these chairs.  When we came back, they were in exactly the same place.  Eventually, they switched babies.

 A's cousin was still in the very sleepy newborn phase, but he convinced her to wake up for a few squirms.

Before we knew it, we were on the plane ride home.  As you can see, it went much as the first trip.

At the end of our trip, we stopped into dad's office for a visit.  We paraded around and he met a lot of dad's coworkers.  The little man was pretty happy to see his dad after 3 days!  So was I!

Somehow my cousin and I didn't get a photo together.  We'll have to make sure to do that this summer!

Two months old!

It's been awhile since the two month mark but we've been busy.  We did manage to capture a few photos on the quilt again, this time outside on the balcony.  A seemed to be pretty distracted by the breeze and the sun so we couldn't get as many smiles as we normally could around that time.  At his 2 month appointment, he was 24 inches long and  weighed 12 lbs 3 oz.  That's 90th percentile for height and 50th for weight.  His head circumference was the 75th percentile.  At the doctor's appointment, his pediatrician commented that he was especially squirmy, and predicted (as it turns out, correctly) that he'd be rolling over by the next appointment at 4 months.  Looking back on these photos I see them as the beginning of the end for his thick, dark hair.  He's started going bald in more places than one.

Interacting with things

Just this week, A has started to interact with things.  

He loves looking at his black and white book.  He'll stare for a long time, then do a little spaz move, then go back to staring.

He also loves the items dangling from his swing.  We can't tell if he's staring at the bears or the ribbons that hang down, but he will stare, transfixed, for 20 minutes.

He has also started to reach for things that dangle over his head.  This video is long but includes a couple smiles and a giant spit up/sneeze combo.  His 2 month vaccinations included some spit up side effects that increased the amount of spit up on an already spit uppy baby by quite a bit.  He seems to be doing a lot better with it today, so hopefully we're nearing the end.