Three Months

Our little Calvin is now three months old. I was looking at pictures from his birth-day and could hardly believe he was that tiny not too long ago. Our little friend here didn't have a doctors check up this month, but I know he has sure grown a lot!

Calvin is getting more and more talkative, which I just love. He is super chatty whenever he is on his changing table and right after I finish feeding him. He has three different phases; he is either incredibly smiley and chatty; really, really, really intense and quite, just staring at things (see black and white picture :) ; or hoppin' mad because he is overly tired. The past week has been an eventful one! He has started reaching and grabbing toys, rolling over from back to stomach and he got a TOOTH!

PS- I took pictures of him for almost 30 minutes to try and get him to smile. His kind of half smile at the top was the best I could do! He would only just stare at me :)

He was sleeping great, from about 7:30 to 5 and then back down till 8 until the past two weeks when nights were a nightmare (which we figured out was due to the tooth). But now he really is consistently sleeping through the night. We start putting him down around 7:30 and he sleeps until 7 or 7:30 am! It is beautiful. Our doctor said that once he was 10-12 lbs then he doesn't need the middle of the night feeding anymore and they usually just wake up out of habit. So that is when we started trying harder to get him to sleep through the night. So after some long nights he is a champion sleeper!

He is now eating every 3 1/2 hours and has dropped his evening cat nap and just takes 3 naps a day that are all roughly 90 minutes. At least once a day he will take about a 20 minute nap but wakes up chatty and happy so I usually don't put him back down.

He is almost out of some of his 3-6 month onesies already! He is still in his 0-3 month jeans, which fit him perfectly.  It depends on the brand, but almost anything Carters is getting on the snug side….especially his pajamas with footies because his feet are the size of an average 10 month old! 

He hates his carseat, so car rides aren't all that fun unless Robert or I are back there to help entertain him and keep him distracted. It also means that carseats in the shopping cart are a no go, so whenever we go into the store we strap him in the Bjorn. He loves loves loves to look around (which is why he hates sitting in his carseat in the cart), so I am pretty excited for when I can actually sit him in the cart!

We just love this little munchkin man more and more each month!

A Cabin Weekend

This past week Robert officially finished the first block of medical school, and passed! At UNSOM the school year is split into blocks rather than semesters, and rather than being tested on individual classes, you are tested on everything. On Monday he had a midterm, Tuesday a final and Thursday another final. The man was gone from 7am-11pm about everyday for 2 weeks preparing for the final; he was pretty nervous, but he did great and passed with flying colors.

To celebrate having our men back in our lives for a WHOLE weekend, we went up with some friends to their cabin in Northern California. We spent the weekend hanging out in the woods and letting the boys veg out and not have to think for a few days.

 Emmeline loves rubbing Calvin's bald head for good luck.

We also carved pumpkins:

 ...and decided that the pumpkins definitely reflect each of the boys' personalities.

I captured this gem right before we left for the Cabin. I thought he was asleep in the back of the car and apparently he was just sitting there, probably with a death wish upon me or something, haha. Ohhh Calvin, we just love you.

Two Months

Our little friend here has reached his two month mark. We went to the doctors today and were surprised to find out that it was shot month! I was under the impression that it was the following month- false. I was a little bit worried because I had no idea how he would handle it, but he was a champ! There were three shots; on the first needle his eyes grew about 10x their size and with the second needle he let out a huge cry and was incredibly tear stricken by the third. I picked him up and within about a minute he turned back into my sweet boy and fell asleep about 20 seconds after we drove away. 

Calvin nows weighs a whopping 11 lbs and 15 oz (39 percentile), measuring at exactly 22 inches (9 percentile) and his head measuring 15.5 inches (56 percentile). I felt like he had grown so much in the past two weeks I was really surprised to see that he is considered small for his age. I do think all of his length is in his torso, because in the past 3 days his 0-3 month onesies are a little small because they  pull down pretty far on the neck because they are being stretched in order to snap. 

 Over the past week Calvin was going through a growth spurt, which was not very fun on my part. At first I thought he was just struggling with his naps and therefore needing to eat sooner (he eats when he wakes up), and by the time I realized it was a growth spurt the kid was eating every two hours and only taking 20-30 minute naps. Naps are pretty much holy time for me, so I was a little bit so sad.

Good news is that our little champ is sleeping through the night! His first night was last Monday, sleeping from 7:30 pm- 5:30 am. I fed him and he went back to sleep till 7:30 am. Each night he will either wake up at 5:30 to eat and then go back down, or he will sleep straight until about 6:30 or 7 when he is up for the day!

Calvin loves his dad and always gives him a huge smile when he gets home from work, or when Robert surprises him on Saturdays by getting him up for the day rather than me! He also LOVES to use his legs. If we are holding him he prefers to stand on our lap rather than being cradled like a babe. When his is in the bath he is always kicking his legs and pushing off the edge of the bath tub like a little frog.

He is also incredible intense; he really only smiles when he wakes up and has eaten, and other than that he just stares intensely at things and people. My sister says that she feels like she is being judged (which is totally true! His stares are almost eerie), and other say that he must be a thinker. Either way, we love our little Calvin Wixom Davis!