My sweet baby is 4 months old!  He’s starting to babble and coo and just be as cute as can be!  He’s sitting up and is thiiiiiis close to rolling over!  My little chubbo just can’t quite get that arm out of his way.

Happy to be 4 months old…

And here’s Maxwell at 4 months…

Spencer is a great eater…obviously!  🙂  He eats about every 4 hours – around 7, 11, 3 and 7 – and then again sometime in the night.  Sleeping is going…ok.  He has great nights where he only wakes up once around 2:00 but the past few weeks he’s been waking up twice.  Not fun!  We’re trying to let him cry it out and just working through it.  He clearly doesn’t need to eat during the night anymore so I’m sure it will work itself out soon.  I’m still swaddling him but he’s busting out of his swaddle more and more so I might move to the sleep sack soon.

I squeeze on these chunky legs and belly every day!  🙂

He’s such a happy little guy.  He’s an easy smiler – and his smile just lights up his whole face!

His belly laughs are the BEST!

He loves to play with his toes these days and is always reaching for them!

I could just eat him up!

Posing with Bear Bryant…

It’s amazing to me how this baby can be so different from Maxwell yet I still love him every bit as much!

Happy 4 months sweet boy!  We love you!

All previous monthly photos for both boys here.

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.

Spencer turned two months old yesterday and I am official in love with this baby.  He’s happy, he’s smiley, he’s chubby, he’s perfect!  LOTS of pictures below…

Spencer at 2 months…

and Maxwell at 2 months…

Interesting how much darker Maxwell’s eyes were by this point.  Spencer’s are still really blue – maybe he’ll keep the blue eyes!  I definitely think Spencer is bigger than Maxwell was at this point but we’ll confirm at the doctor on Friday.

I don’t want to jinx anything but, so far, Spencer’s just been such an easy baby.  He cries when he’s hungry and rarely cries any other time.  If he does cry, I can always get him calmed down within a few minutes – usually by swaddling him up, giving him a paci and swaying him to sleep.  He’s sleeping great at night.  As of the past week or so, he’s been eating around 7:00 pm and then I’ll get him down “for the night” by around 8:30 or 9:00 and then he’ll wake up again around 2:00 and then not again until around 6:00.  I’ll take that!  He’s sleeping in his room but I’ve been putting him in his Rock N Play Sleeper instead of his crib and I think he’s sleeping better that way.  It’s more cozy and it keeps him inclined a little which is good.  When he does wake up to eat at night, he eats and then just goes right back to sleep all swaddled up!  A dream baby!  🙂

This picture makes me laugh with his little arm propped up…

During the day, he’ll go between 3 to sometimes even 6 hours between feedings.  He’s great at taking a bottle when necessary which is nice.

We’re getting some great smiles and lots of coo-ing and it just makes me melt.  He’s definitely getting his brother’s (and dad’s!) long, thick, dark eyelashes (yay!) and has the cutest little lopsided grin.

Posing with “Bear Bryant” – thanks for the name suggestion Granddad!  A good complement to “Little Al”!

I love this little guy with all my heart and am so glad he decided to join our family!

Happy 2 months Spencer, we love you!

Maxwell’s 2 month photos here.

Spencer’s 1 month photos here.

I cannot believe Spencer is 1 month old!  He has been such a sweet baby and we are totally in love.  Sure, he can cry with the best of babies, but we can always get him calmed down pretty quickly.  He really only cries when he’s hungry…or needs to poop!  🙂  He’s eating every 3 hours like a clock during the day.  At night, he has gone some 4 and 5 hour stretches which is really nice.  He seems to sleep best when he’s laying on me or in my arms so that’s where he spends most of the night.  If he’s not there, he’s propped up on the boppy right beside me.  I can’t help but spoil him a little like that!  🙂

I actually left him for the first time on Friday and Susan watched both boys for a few hours.  Thankfully everything went great and Spencer even took a bottle with absolutely no issue at all!  Go Spencer!

We’re so ready for the holiday this weekend and can’t wait for so much of the family to meet our new baby boy!

Being 1 month old means one very important thing around here – monthly photo shoot!  You can see all the pics I took of Maxwell here.  I debated about whether to use the same chair for Spencer or find a different one.  I really want to use the other green chair we have so the pictures will match but not be exactly the same.  Unfortunately, this chair isn’t quite as padded as the one I used for Maxwell’s photos so not sure how that will work out with a baby that can’t sit up!  We got some cute ones this month with no injuries but I also took some in the other chair in case I change my mind next month!

Spencer at one month…

and here is Maxwell at one month!

I think they look a little similar but not too much alike.

Spencer was a pretty good – albeit slightly somber – model…

But then he started to get a little pouty…

and then really upset!

I think he was just lonely though.  As soon as I brought out his bear friend, he was in much better spirits!

Two buddies just staring at the ceiling…

Sweet boy loving on his bear…or just unable to sit up!  🙂

Love this little guy!

And now for a few in the other chair, just in case…

Happy 1 month Spencer!!  We love you!

tell me – which chair do you like best? also – mr. bear needs a name! suggestions?