3 Months

Weight: 17lbs - we are not sure exactly since he didn't go to the dr but this is our best guess from weighing him.
Height: 25 inches - again not sure on this one since it is hard to measure him and no dr. apt this month
Eating/Nursing: Caleb is still a great eater and sleeper most of the time.  He usually eats around 7 or 8 for the first time in the morning and is on a pretty regular 3-4 hour schedule still during the day.  He sometimes sleeps all night from about 10-8 or sometimes gets up one or two times to nurse during the night, we never really know :)
Wake time: He continues to be more playful during his wake time.  He smiles and sometimes laughs whenever you come up and talk to him, even when we first get him up in the morning.  Then he starts screaming because he is hungry:)  He is starting to play with his toys and if we can help him he will hold his little toy seal and Sophie for a short period.  He is starting to put anything he can in his mouth and you can see him trying to figure out how to get many things to his mouth.  It is so cool to see his brain working on trying to figure out all these new things!  He is liking books more and more, he really seems interested in the simple books we have which are colors/numbers etc.  He also is making great progress with tummy time. We now have to start him on the back of his play mat because he scoots up to the top pretty quickly.
Napping: We are still struggling a bit with this.  He is pretty consistent that he needs a short nap every 3 hours or so.  Most of the time these naps are 15-20 minutes long but I am starting to see a trend in his morning nap being a little longer and hoping we can get one of the afternoon naps to be a little longer as well.  For the most part he takes about 4-5 naps a day and they range from 15 minutes to almost an hour if we are lucky:)
Night Sleep: Besides a few days here and there he continues to sleep great at night. We are working on regulating his bedtime which has been hard to do with company and daddy's travel schedule.  But I think we are settling into bath time around 8 and in bed by about 9 or 9:30, he then will sleep until 6 or 7, later he goes to bed the later he sleeps in it seems.  We are still swaddling him loosely at night since it seems that the nights we have tried to go without it he wakes himself up. 
Skills: He loves to stand up and sit up with assistance of course :)  When you are sitting and holding him it is just about all he wants to do. During tummy time he manages to scoot himself forward on his play mat and talks up a storm.  He continues to reach at toys and is still very fond of staring at his hands although I don't know that he has really discovered his feet yet.  If we help him he holds onto Sophie and is starting to really open up his hands to feel and grasp objects.
Language: He is starting to make lots more noise and sometimes it sounds like he is saying some noises that sound like a sound mmm, oooo,  eeee.  He loves to talk during tummy time and already so often he seems like he is really trying to communicate back when we talk to him!  He still loves songs and things like patty cake. One of his favorite things is when you blow on his face somehow, if you blow raspberries or anything like that he gets the biggest smile and often laughs out loud.  He sometimes will blow raspberries himself and always gets a huge grin afterwords like he is so proud of himself. 
Fun Facts: He is still our big growing boy and wears size 1-2 diapers (should be in 2's but we are still using up some 1-2's that we got before he was born as gifts) He is wearing 6 month pj's and mostly 6 month clothes.  A few of the larger 3 month things still fit him but for the most part he is in all 6 month cloths.  He loves to smile and always does when someone talks to him or when he sees a new smiling face :)  Light up toys seem to be his favorite these days, he loves his light up aquarium in his crib and his little light up singing toy.
A few facts for his "baby book"
9.5 weeks - first nap in the crib June 1st
9 weeks - sings songs with mommy, often coos and tries to sing with me as I sing him songs.
First Laugh on June 15th - blow raspberries at him nice and close to his face :)
Started playing with hands a lot at the beginning of June.
Started to discover and stare at his hands and stare at them constantly around June 16th.

 Here were a bunch I took one day...too cute to not add a few of them!

 Here is Caleb somewhat holding his seal that Jared named "Freddie"

 Napping in Mommy and Daddy's room in my pack n' play

 This one is a little dark because we didn't want to use a flash to wake him up but thought it was so cute that he fell asleep during story time!

 A little time on his play mat

Make new friends but keep the old...

One is silver and the other gold....I remember learning that song in Brownies and oh my how it is true!  I have been so lucky in my life to have so many wonderful friends from many stages.  Early childhood, college and beyond they are all such great friends and I can't imagine my life without them in it.  Two of those friends have been there as long as I can remember and one of them moved to Texas at the beginning of the year.  Funny how two girls from Chicago end up in Texas, never would have thought that in a million years!

Kristin, her husband and son moved to New Braunfels, Texas about 4.5 hours South of Dallas.  She had not been able to come up since Caleb was born and we finally found a time that would work.  She and her wonderful husband who so graciously watched their little boy Simon decided it would be a good idea to come when Jared was gone, during the week.  This was wonderful for me as it sometimes gets a little lonely around here during the week when Jared is gone.  Kristin came up on a Wednesday night and was able to stay until Saturday! 

We had a wonderful time playing with Caleb and enjoying each other's company.  We could not remember the last time we actually got to spend that much time together without anyone else really around.  It always proves my favorite point that no matter how much time passes with great friends it feels like no time has passed at all! 

We didn't get too many pictures but we did make some great food, something we have always enjoyed doing together that we learned from our mom's long ago who enjoy doing the same when they are together.

Here is the picture we just had to take of our seared tuna dinner with snap peas and rice noodles.  All Cooking Light inspired!

 Kristin and Caleb....

Had such a great time with you Kristin, love you and that you are closer to us now!  Yes, when you are a 15 hour drive someone living 4.5 hours seems like they live close by :) Can't wait to see you again and hopefully Abram and Simon too!

Worldless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

A little dip in the pool

Caleb had his first experience in the pool at Great Uncle Mike's and Great Aunt Janie's house.  It was a nice hot Texas day and the pool wasn't cold but wasn't Texas hot yet but he seemed to really like it.

Sitting on the side of the pool, smiling at Daddy and doesn't know what he is in for :)

 In the pool, I think he thought it was the bath and seemed to like it, didn't cry or anything!

Holding the ball in the pool, obviously not too interested in the ball. 

 Cousin Kelsea in the pool with Caleb!

 We put Caleb in the pool lounger and he was quite content....then we decided to make it look like he was in the pool by himself....

 Here he is in the pool "by himself" you can see Jared's leg if you look carefully since we really would never leave him in the pool or a float by himself.  Although we did show this to Jared's cousin Ryane and told her we just left him in the pool by himself and she believed us :)

We now have an appropriate bathing suit, swim shirt, hat and swim diaper for him to wear the next time he goes swimming which should be in a few weeks so more swimming pictures to come.   

Friends...

Caleb has lots of friends that are a few years older than him!  He also has a lot of friends that are very close to his age and some of them are yet to be born...coming in the next few months!

Here is a picture of one of his friends Brody holding him! He was also practicing for his baby sister that will be here any day.

Another one of his friends that he met this past week is baby Cameron. He was a few weeks early and compared to Caleb even baby Cam at three weeks is such a cute little peanut in comparison to our big baby!
Here are the pics of their first play date but there will be many more to share as baby Cam also lives in our neighborhood!  Congrats Colin and Danielle, he is adorable! I had to post all three pictures since they are too cute not too!!  Hard to believe they are only 6.5 weeks apart in age :)

Many more friend pics to come...

2 Months!

Caleb at 2 Months!!

Weight: 13 lbs and 5 oz (90th percentile)
Height: 23 inches (70th percentile) Head size 16 inches (70th percentile) The nurse practitioner who we saw instead of the Dr. due to the fact that he has been not sleeping as well the last two nights he might be getting ready for a growth spurt!
Eating/Nursing: Caleb is still a great eater and sleeper for that matter!  Since his one month appointment that pediatrician said we could stop waking him up at night so we have now let him sleep!  For the most part his schedule is that he eats every 2-3 hours during the day and then around 8 or 9 we put him down and he usually either wakes up around 11 and nurses or we give him a bottle so that his tummy is full enough to get him to sleep through the night.  Usually he starts to stir around 5 or 6 and then eats around 7 or 8 each morning.  Which is great that he is already sleeping through the night!  I am always hesitant to say this but it has been going on almost a month now so I think we are in a good routine at least for now, I know that things can change :)
Wake time: We are seeing more and more smiling and his personality taking shape during awake time.  He usually is awake for a good hour sometimes two after her eats.  During awake time he loves to play with his toys, lay on his play mat and look up at his cow that has a mirror on it, listen to his lamb that sings old McDonald.  He also loves his vibrating rocker seat and the two toys on that, he can smile and stare at them for quite some time and is starting to grab and reach for things as well.  He also loves his swing since there is a mirror above it and moving animals and staring at the ceiling fan in the living room since it is on a slow mode.  We also do tummy time which he doesn't love but will tolerate.  Reading books isn't always his favorite but we seem to always do that as he is getting tired so we need to put that into the earlier rotation and I think he would like it more. 
Napping: We don't have a wonderful schedule for this yet.  I almost feel some days like he is already ready for two long naps.  Some days he still is in the schedule of eating, playing and napping for an hour or so before he eats again but that usually doesn't happen in between each feeding during the day.  He often is awake for 3-4 hours and in that time can nap for about 15 minutes and then later on will take a longer nap.  When he starts to get fussy his favorite thing is to be held facing out and looking at what is going on while falling asleep. He loves to have something to focus on while falling asleep and hates to be held facing your chest. He also loves his mobile in his crib and I think that and his other little toy that clips on the side of the crib will really help him a lot when falling asleep.  We are going to test that out soon!
Night Sleep: For about the last month this has been pretty consistent with sleeping 8-9 hours at night.  He usually eats around 6 or 7 and then we give him a bath and start to wind down for the night.  He then usually falls asleep and sometimes wakes up at 9 or 10 to eat again.  If he doesn't then we usually wake him up just enough to give him a bottle so that he can make it through the night without needing to eat.  He then usually wakes up around 6-8am, he often starts making some noises about an hour or two before he actually wakes up.  We are very happy about this and hope it only continues to get better and more consistent as he gets older!
Skills:He is getting stronger and stronger and holds up his head like a champ!  He is reaching and grabbing for his toys when laying on his back and loves to play with them.  When we talk to him he really pays attention to our voices and likes to look at us.  He also will stick out his tongue at us when we do the same to him.  He is happiest when he has some sort of stimulation usually people keep him entertained the longest. 
Language: He is starting to communicate more and more. You can tell especially when talking to him that he is trying to communicate back and he will coo and talk back to you often.  He loves to play with his tongue and his mouth and try to imitate any movement that you make with your mouth from sticking his tongue out to trying to imitate kisses.  He is totally intrigued and you can see the wheels in his little brain spinning as he is trying to figure things out!
Fun Facts:  Caleb went on his first road trip this past month down to Houston.  He was a champ in the car and slept most of the way there with only one long crying stretch on the way back that the pacifier helped to calm. We have figured out that he loves to look around and watch what is going on and if we are in a new environment he will just watch what is going on for long stretches of time. This also wears him out and we get some good naps and nights sleep out of him after! 

We are having so much fun already with our little boy and it is so exciting to see how he changes on almost a daily basis although now I can really see why people say it goes by so fast as he already seems like he is so old :)

A few fun pictures of our little guy!!