Three Months Old!

See how big he's getting!  So you don't have to scroll down to compare I am putting first his one week picture then today - three months!

3 month stats

At three months, our Donny weighs 13lb 10oz and measures about 23 inches long (you try measuring a wiggly Donny with a paper tape measure and see how accurate you'll be!) He sleeps eleven hours every night from 8pm to 7am. He smiled and talked to us today for the first time while bathing.

Almost Three Months old!

Our topic for today's entry is my son's growing belly.  Over the last couple of weeks he's put on quite a bit, thanks to the advice of a friend who told me to let him eat as much as he wants. The first time we let him eat until he had enough he ate 10 ounces!  I guess he was hungry! So... he eats six to eight ounces at every feeding.  He's happier, and pudgier!  So cute!    He's always hiking up his clothes - usually he has a sleeper or a onesie on, so this chance to expose his midriff and thighs was great fun for him! Donny has been coming to work with me, but since my office is too small for both of us and his swing, he has been hanging out just outside my door in his work swing.  He loves it!  Takes all his afternoon naps there. I am able to work and keep an eye on him.  By the time he needs to be held and fed, its my break time anyway! He has decided that he is a big boy now, and doesn't need to be scared when we undress him for diaper changes and baths.   This makes life more pleasant for all of us! He's winking at you!   And he looks so grown up in big boy clothes!    He is starting to interact with his toys more, although I don't think he knows he's holding them when they flail about.  But he watches them! And here's that fabulous belly once again.  Notice that he is starting to look more like his daddy.

New favorites

Donny loves his Baby Bumbo which helps him sit upright.  Andy calls it his spit up seat because he spits up as soon as we put him in it.  We snapped these pictures as he was sitting on the island looking at the pots hanging from our new pot rack.   We also took him to the doctor for his two month check up this week.  He weighed 11 lb 8 oz and measured 21 3/4 inches long.  That puts him at the fiftieth percentile for head size and weight, and the tenth for height.  He also got his shots :( which he did not like.  He loved the oral vaccine though, and cried for more.  He was a bit fussy before bed and had a small fever in the night and needed a little tlc at three am.  Otherwise, he did fine with his big doctor's appointment.

Our vacation continued...

While we were in Wisconsin, Donny and I went to our first Don Shire concert.  Donny liked the trumpet music and watched his grandpa playing almost as much as he looked at the stained glass windows.  But when Grandpa played the shofar he was not okay with that!

 

Fortunately, he likes his Grandpa anyway!  I really enjoyed the whole concert, except for the millions of flies that were buzzing around in this beautiful old Baptist church.  Grammy took Donny out after the shofar incident so that Andy and I could enjoy the concert.  It was good to finally get to experience my father in law's work.  I especially enjoyed the hymns (he played two of my favorites: It Is Well With My Soul and The Old Rugged Cross) and his interpretation of what it will sound like when the trumpet sounds and the saints are called home.  I got goose bumps just thinking about it!

Other highlights of the trip for me were bonding with Julie (Andy's sister), cuddling with my new neice, watching Donny "drive" the John Deere, dressing Donny like a lumberjack and eating breakfast at Paul Bunyan (they have no menus because they serve you family style with all you can eat platters of sausage, biscuits and gravy, flapjacks, eggs, french toast, OJ, hash browns, ham...), hanging out on the back patio and in the hot tub, trying to convice my nephew Michael that a butterfly net is not called a "hallway" and that his Culver's fish was not "blueberries" or "chicken," and watching the ever changing faces of my little boy.

         

Andy's highlights included his fishing trip with his dad and Zach (I'll let him tell you about that), cuddling with his new neice, watching the history channel in the den (we don't get expanded cable at our house and he's a history junkie), showing Donny and I around Silver Birch Ranch (the camp he grew up attending next to Sawyer Lake), teaching me to steer a canoe, and sampling his parent's cooking.

    

It was such a blessing to get to go to Wisconsin this summer.  I needed the rest and the break from cell phone and computer, and came back from our trip rested and much more healed up than when I went.  (Even with the long trip home routing us from Green Bay to Chicago to Dallas to Portland getting home after 1 a.m. Pacific time which suddenly felt like 3 a.m. to us) I wish Wisconsin was closer to the Northwest so we could go visit more often.  I feel at home there and love spending time with the family.  Thank you thank you thank you to Don and Kathy for using precious air miles to fly us out there first class.  We couldn't have had a vacation this year without them!

Our family vacation

We just got back from our first vacation as parents.  I couldn't believe how much stuff we had to take!  Last summer we carried on all our luggage.  This year we checked two big suitcases going and four coming home.  PLUS a stroller, carseat, diaper bag, and backpack. Juggling it all was manageable, but getting through security was a long process!  I kept trying to imagine doing this with two kids... I guess we'll cross that bridge when we have to!

Our first adventure was a visit in Chicago with Andy's great aunt Arline.  Donny smiled at her as soon as he saw her!  We were so proud of him!

Next, he met Andy's Aunt Nancy and Donny's Great grandma and grandpa Johnson

 

They were delighted with their "littlest peanut."  He was dressed in his Chicago Cubs baseball colors in honor of his Great Grandpa Earl who is a lifelong fan. 

Next we went back to O'Hare where we suffered through a 6 hour flight delay. The parents were more upset about this than the baby.

 

We spent the remainder of our vacation in White Lake and Appleton, Wisconsin with Andy's parents and his sister's family. Grammy bought Donny this cute bathrobe.

He got to meet his cousins Laura, Zachery, and Michael

  

And of course Lindsey, his cousin who is three months older than him (and about the same size!)

  

There's lots more but I'm out of time for today!