3 months old!

Guess who is 3 months old?!  My sweetest, happiest, most awesome baby boy, Spencer!

This little guy is such a lovable, squeezable little baby and I could just eat him and his sweet disposition up!

He’s starting to come into his own and look less like a newborn alien and more like a cute baby.  His eyes are still blue but sometimes almost look grey.  Jury is still out on his hair.  It definitely looks like it has shades of red in some light.  I might get me a ginger baby!  🙂

For comparison, here’s Maxwell at 3 months…

and Spencer at 3 months…

Both precious but look nothing alike, in my opinion.

Spencer is just a happy baby.  He really only cries when he’s hungry and it’s easy to make him smile and even laugh!

He’s CLEARLY a good eater!  He’s eating about every 4 hours still but going some longer stretches at night – up to 7 hours.  I mean, check out this belly…

Love that belly, love him.  According to our scale at home, he’s 14.6 lbs.

I’m trying to follow the same sleep principles from Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child that I did with Maxwell and that means really keeping him awake no longer than 2 hours during the day.  It seems to be working great.  The big difference between Spencer and Maxwell is that, with Spencer, I can put him into the swing awake and, more often than not, he’ll go to sleep on his own.  Maxwell had to be held and rocked to sleep.  Spencer really loves the swing and will take fantastic naps in it.  At night, he usually eats around 8:30ish and then I get him to sleep and in bed (which is still the Rock N Play Sleeper for now!) and he’ll wake up once in the night – sometime between 3 and 5:00 – and then go right back to sleep until around 8:00.  Pretty awesome!  He’s so easy to get back to sleep and there’s never any crying.  Yahoo!  I’m still swaddling him every night and he seems to like that.

While a very happy baby, he can get a little crabby when Momma won’t put the camera down!  🙂

He’s starting to interact with toys and loves to bat at the toys on his bouncy seat, watch his mobile or the birds on the swing, and bat at the toys on the play pad.  We try to do tummy time and he tolerates it.  His head control is getting to be very good.  I might need to try the Bumbo soon!

Posing with Bear Bryant…

He can also be quite a little chatty cathy making noises all the time!

One of his most favorite things though?  His big brother!  🙂  He loves to just watch Maxwell and I love to watch them both!

Happy 3 months sweet Spencer!  How did we ever get on without you?!

All previous monthly photos for both boys here.