Three Months

Yesterday Paxton was 3 months old! He’s changed so much over this last month!

This month’s milestones:

• He’s holding his head up!
• The past 3 days he’s been enjoying his tummy time! This past Wednesday he held his head up more than 5 minutes continuously!
• Wearing 6-9 month onesies & rompers (can squeeze into some 3-6 still) and mostly wearing 0-3 bottoms still!
• Wore his last size 1 diaper this past Thursday!
• Still wearing Bum Genius diapers on the smallest setting.
• Exclusively cloth diapering and loving it! He only wears disposables on Sunday to church and sometimes when we travel overnight.
• Sleeping all night long! I feed around 10 and have him down around 10:30-10:45 now. He sleeps until 7:00-8:00 most mornings! (Some mornings I have to wake him up, especially if we are going somewhere…I think it is just wonderful that I have to wake up my 3 month old!)
• He smiles at us all the time! He’s laughing more and more!!
• He talks and talks and talks! He carries on conversations with us and even with himself!
• He’s traveled to West Tennessee twice this month!

• His baby dedication was July 4! He was just perfect for the dedication and all of his grandparents were there!
• He’s been playing on his playmat and interacting with his toys!
• He’s a thumb sucker! We finally gave in to it after he was sucking it through his scratch mittens! He only sucks on it when he is sleepy though.
• We weighed and measured him yesterday and he was 14 pounds and 26 inches long! (13 pounds 4 ounces and 25 inches long at his 2 month check-up…his growth is slowing a little.)
• He went swimming for the first time at Nannie and Grandaddy’s! He loved it!
• He just loves his bath time! He never cries but he sure does fight when I wash under his neck! I took a bath with him this past week and he splashed his feet in the water!
• He sits in our laps and listens when we read to him! I try to read him a few little stories everyday and we started reading Little House in the Big Woods this past week!
• He enjoys the Moby Wrap and we bought a new sling this week and he’s doing good with a hip carry in that!
• Has a beautiful complexion! That is one of the things I hear the most from people!
• He is a wonderful easy baby! We’ve been so blessed!

Our little man in his Bum Genius All-in-One!!

Our Big Play Day

Paxton and I had a wonderful playtime yesterday afternoon! He held his head up continuously more than 5 minutes! Up until yesterday afternoon, whenever we’d put him on his belly after about 30 seconds he’d be crying in protest! He really seemed to enjoy it and was checking out all of his toys!

Checking out his bunny and the carrot with his bunny rattle in hand!!

He was just studying the carrot! I loved watching him really explore all of the different colors and textures on his playmat!

Look at him! He looks so big, it almost looks like he is going to get up and start crawling!

Of course after holding his head up continuously and then having some more playtime on his back he was just wore out! His play mat makes a nice little napping spot too!

If you missed it, I shared a video of him “talking” yesterday!

Our Little Talker

4 Weeks Old

Today was a good day! It wasn’t too stressful and I was able to spend quite a bit of snuggle time with my 4 week old baby! I can hardly believe that he’s 4 weeks already but at the same time it seems like he’s been here forever! We love him so much and it’s fun (and a little bit sad) to watch him grow!

Right after daddy left for work Paxton was bathed (nothing better than the smell of baby shampoo in his hair), dressed and fed! Our day consisted of laundry, snuggling, feeding, washing cloth diapers, and looking over finances!

Around 3:30 I sat down and listened to the end of the Dave Ramsey Show and rocked Paxton to sleep! He was wide awake until I started singing to him! Once I started singing his eyelids started fluttering…I suppose he doesn’t mind my horrible voice! I sang Jesus Loves Me, Jesus Loves the Little Children, Amazing Grace and Blessed Assurance! He will know hymns, not just “contemporary” Christian! At 4:00 he was fast asleep and I needed to do a little ironing so I laid him down and couldn’t resist taking a picture of his cute little bottom!

Precious in his plaid shorts! I’ve said that it’s much more fun to dress a girl with the hair ribbons, dresses, cute socks and shoes but I’m enjoying dressing my little man especially in jeans, rompers and plaid shorts!

Nothing like a sleeping baby!

Shortly after daddy arrived home we went to change his diaper and he got us! (It scared us both!) And then when we pulled the diaper up to try to change him again, he got us again! Needless to say, there was pee everywhere so we had to change his clothes!

His second outfit…not as cute as the plaid shorts!!

Here is our 4 week old baby! (He looks so long in this picture!)

I love this shot that I captured! He looks like a little boy, not a baby!

And since I had him dressed in his “Thank Heaven for Little Boys” sleeper I had to take a few pictures of him!

These past 4 weeks have been wonderful! I still can’t believe that I am a mama at times but it is wonderful! I tell him probably 10 times a day “I’m your mama” and I say “I love you” probably 25! And he gets lots and lots of kisses on his forehead, cheeks and nose too!

2 Weeks Old

Today Paxton is 2 weeks old! He has been a great baby so far! He is eating and sleeping very well!

He sleeps sometimes at 3 or 4 hour stretches during the night which is wonderful for his mommy! He typically eats about every 3 hours during the day but the past 2 days he was eating every 2 hours, I suppose he was going through a little growth spurt! Today he spent most of the day sleeping and I had to wake him up about every 4 hours and then he still wasn’t very interested in eating then…could be bad for mommy and daddy tonight!