3 MONTHS

On the 23rd Lincoln turned 3 months old. Let me tell you a little more about him: He is a "good baby". As you might know people ask about that all the time. "Is he a good baby?" or they will say "He seems like a good baby." It's funny because sometimes I think "What's a bad baby like?" but overall I say he is a GREAT baby! He hardly ever cries and when he does he makes these little moaning sounds like he's just sad or tired or frusterated. Rarely do we ever hear him cry so hard it seems like he's not breathing. That's only happened a few times namely when we got his shots. He's not dramatic at all.

He probably weighs about 14 pounds now. He has grown out of most of his 3 month clothes and I've started putting him in 6 month things. He has started doing a lot better sleeping at night. Once he falls asleep, which is usually about 8 give or take, he will sleep for about 5 hours. After that he will wake up every 3 hours to eat just a little bit. He's always super drowsy though and he isn't even awake when it's time to be burped. This is leaps and bounds above what it was like when he was tiny. I'm surviving very well. Once he wakes up he is all smiles. He loves us to hold him so he can stand up on our laps. He'll smile, squeal and do this little stomp with his left foot that's kinda funny.

He loves ceiling fans. It's funny. He loves to stare at our fan in the kitchen. On Christmas Eve I was changing him into his jammies on Sean's parents bed and they have a dark wood fan on the ceiling in the room. It was turning slowly and he was going crazy kicking all over. He is completely enamored by them. Also, when something catches his attention you can never steal it. You can be holding him up in front of you making all sorts of noise and he will just keep looking around at whats interesting. It always makes me laugh.

He is also quite a cuddle bug. We have a California king size bed that all three of us sleep in. Sean and I sleep on either size with regular size pillows and he sleeps right in the middle all sprawled out. Luckily neither Sean and I really move much in our sleep so it works out for us. Usually in the early mornings when I go to work Sean snuggles up with him and he loves it. He goes right back to sleep when he gets startled as soon as he feels us pull him in close. Sometimes when he's tired or not feeling as energetic he'll just let me cradle him even when he's awake and he'll just look around behind me or wherever.

It's so amazing to be a parent for the following reason: here we have this little tiny human that can't even talk let alone pick up an object that's been handed to him and I feel like I know him so well. I can tell whats bothering him. Different cries mean different things. We know what makes him happy and sad. And thats all he really needs right now is parents to take care of him and love him. We love it. It's an incredible blessing in our lives right now.