3 Months

Gabriel is 3 months old today!  He still doesn't like having his picture taken.  He'll be smiling and cooing like crazy, but the minute you put a camera in front of him he becomes so serious.  We've managed to get a few smiles caught on camera though. . .

Stop pointing that camera at me!

One of his favorite things is sitting propped up and being able to look around.
A whole new perspective on the world!

As far as sleep goes, he's been going to bed between 7 and 8 pm and then getting up for the day sometime between 7 and 8 am (with some feedings in between.  We always get him up and feed him before we go to bed between 10 and 11 pm). While I bragged for a while that Gabriel was such a good sleeper, something changed in him after his little growth spurt a few weeks ago.  In other words, he decided that sleeping until 5 or 6 in the morning is just no fun.  Waking up around 1-2 or again around 4-5 is just too exciting to pass up.  Last night he only woke up a little after 3, but that was the first night in a while that he did that.  Hopefully that was the start of a new phase of better sleeping again.  He's also so much better about going down for naps (although he sometimes still wants to be swaddled up for those).

So peaceful

In other news, I went back to work this week.  I'm working nights for the time being.  While it was a rough week for me and very hard to leave, Gabriel got to spend some fun evening time with Dad (and poor Taylor had to start feeding him at night for the 3 nights that I'm gone).  He actually did much better with taking a bottle in the middle of the night than I thought he would. 

Gabriel was kind enough to help me fold laundry by keeping track
of the socks until I found the second one in the pair

He thought that tasting a few of them would be fun too

And then he realized that his friend the thumb was way more interesting.  His favorite
hobbies now include putting his hands and fingers in his mouth and staring at people.
So easy to please :)

Again spending time with his friend, the hand

There was no pediatrician visit this month (and thankfully he hasn't been sick), but we know that he's busy growing, growing, growing.  He's wearing 3 month clothes and size 2 diapers.  I can't believe how big he's getting.  Happy 3 Month Birthday Gabriel!

It's hard to resist kissing those cheeks

Growth Spurt

It's been a while since I posted anything on here, so I thought I'd mostly just share some pictures.  

Hanging out at Aunt Stephanie's house (ignore the blurry hand)

 Gabriel is doing great. . .just growing, growing, growing.  Taylor and I both thought that he seemed bigger all of the sudden, and he's certainly in the middle of a growth spurt of some kind.  Prior to this week, we've been putting him to bed between 7 and 8 pm and he's been sleeping until around 5 or 6 am without waking up (I'd feed him once before I went to bed between 10 and 11 pm).  Starting Saturday night he decided to start waking up to eat 2 additional times each night.  He'll just eat like crazy and then fall back asleep.  He's doing the same thing during the day.  Hopefully this will only last a couple more nights because I am TIRED.  At least he's napping much better now during the day.  A really long one in the morning about 2 hours after he wakes up and a couple more tiny ones in the afternoon.

He really likes sitting up on the couch so he can see everything that's going on

Still not a big fan of "tummy time", but he's liking it a little bit more since he can  look around and see things better than he used to.  And as I look at the onesie in this picture it also reminds me --  all of the newborn clothes are now in a box in the closet and the size 1 diapers are getting too small.  How is he growing so fast?

Sporting some super cool shades as we take a walk (maybe a little big, but they were "2 for 1" where we bought them and he'll grow into them)

Quite the stud

He loves talking to Taylor.  His face lights up when he comes into the room :)

Such a sweet boy

Nothing else really to report.  I wish that I had more pictures of him smiling, but whenever I get out the camera he likes to put on his serious face.  I need to remember to have it ready in the morning.  For some reason he's the most chatty first thing in the morning on the changing table.  I guess we haven't talked all night and he just has a lot to share!