3 months old

Today, Atticus turned 3 months old! Here is what is going on for Atticus at 3 months:

1. He weighs approx. 14 and 1/2 lbs.

2. He is sleeping from 8 to 9 1/2 hours a night. While this is wonderful, naps during the day are harder to do (unless of course he is in the car or in your arms!). Oh and after sleeping all night or taking a good long nap, he still takes awhile to wake up - lots of stretching and groaning!

3. He is starting to play and entertain himself. He is reaching for toys on his mobile on the changing table and on his rocker. His rocker will rock faster as he kicks harder so sometimes those little legs get to going so fast and the rocker is rocking and his toys are swinging and he is so focused and excited!

4. He is cooing and gurgling a lot now. Sometimes it even sounds like giggling!

5. Smiling is constant and the best smiles come first thing in the morning when we go to get him up.

6. We have taken 2 trips to Sanger now, and he has slept the entire time he is in the car.

7. He is starting to roll over onto his side, but has no desire to keep going all the way over.

8. We are still working on raising his head while he is on his tummy. He holds it up great otherwise and is getting better at sitting in the bumbo.

9. He is raising his little legs up in the air and holding them there while on his back.

10. He is slowly finding his hands and putting the whole fist in his mouth. Sometimes, he gets just the thumb in there and goes to town sucking his thumb. He also just barely starting to clasp his hands together.

11. He is also drooling, and I can't help but think it's pretty cute!

So much is happening these days! See his 3 month monkey picture below!

And it was also GG's birthday today!

Meeting Memaw

This week Atticus and I went to Sanger to visit and on the way back, we stopped in Hillsboro so he could meet his great grandmother (my mom's mom), Memaw. He is her first great grandchild out of her 12 grandchildren. We also got to see Milly & Jesse again too! I think she is smitten with him!
Can you tell we met at the lounge in the outlet mall at Hillsboro to visit? The picture taking backgrounds were not ideal. :-)

Photo Shoots

So, when Atticus was 7 weeks old, we had his picture made. And, this past week as he turns 3 months old, we had his picture made again. Both times were great, although because he is smiling so much now, we were hoping for bigger smiles in his pictures! However, when too much is going on around him, he just cannot concentrate and prefers to see what is going on around him instead. But, we still got some adorable ones! Here are a couple from his 7 week photo shoot.

And here are some from his 3 month photo shoot. How different he already looks!

Busy as a Bee!

We have been very busy these last few weeks....

• We moved from our bassinet to our crib at 7 weeks (and cannot stay in one position all night!)
• We had a visit from our Aunt GG for an entire week!
• We took our first professional pictures - 7 weeks.

• We got a new pillow.

We celebrated Aunt Jill's 28th birthday.

• We took more baths...which we love, by the way.
• We took our first road trip.
• Like a typical man, we pouted while shopping at the Outlet Mall.
• We took naps on Grandma.

• We rocked with Melbo.

• We let Uncle Charley re-enact The Lion King with us.We visited Pop's school and met some of his friends.We met Tabatha and Stormy!

• We played with Aunt Molly.
• We scrapbooked (or some of us just slept).

• We had our 2 month appointment (12 lbs and 23 inches long!!)

• We celebrated the 4th of July!
• We played on our activity mat.
• We did a lot of serious thinking.
• We met another great-grandmother, Granny Irene.
• We ran around the house naked a lot! And then we giggled about it!We slept.
• And we smiled and laughed and made lots of funny faces!It's been so busy we haven't even blogged! Talk to you soon!