3 months! Now with pictures!

Johnny is 3 months old! These last 3 months have gone so fast and he's so much bigger! By our estimates from our bathroom scale he's 11 pounds now! More than double where he started at 4' 14"! (And a bit bigger than his last visit on July 11 when he was 9'7")

Here he is enjoying his always tasty fist

He's trying to tell me he's had ENOUGH of these pictures!

Such an agreeable little guy!

Pretty darn cute!

He's more fun every single day and we're definitely getting to see more of his sweet personality. He's a very good baby who's usually very happy unless he's hungry, then calms as soon as you feed him. He still sleeps for 6 hours after we first put him down at night, which we continue to be grateful for! Despite carefully calculating how much he needs for catch up growth and limiting his bottle feeds to that, he is getting some serious rolls and would definitely eat more if we let him! Bob was an insatiable baby according to his mom, so we know where he gets it! :) When I'm home he definitely tries to convince me to feed him every 2 hours, and how could I say no to this face? If I feed him before I leave for work and Bob is still sleeping and I put Johnny back to sleep, I have to tell Bob I fed him or Johnny will persuade him to feed him again an hour after I'm gone. He already knows how to manipulate us! :)

Close up of our handsome boy--his eyes are more blue all the time-I think they might stay blue, but we'll see!

Big stretch!

He's starting to really pay more attention to the world around him. He's always been a very alert guy, but now he notices so many more things! We just got him a little monkey to hang from his car seat that has a chime in it and he is very interested in this and the elephant that you pull and it wiggles back up, which also hangs from his car seat. He's now been to 4 fireworks shows, thanks to the Pioneer Day celebrations here, and the last 2 he watched a bit of--the bright lights captured his attention for a bit. The Bountiful fireworks were amazing! We watched them from Richelle's parents house, which is very near where they set them off and we had a beautiful unobstructed view and they were huge and incredible! We also went to the Bee's game on Saturday and there were fireworks there too, but they were REALLY loud. Louder than the other 3 shows, and very close, so Johnny did not appreciate these as much. I had a big thick blanket I held over his ears, but it was really hot and he was an unhappy camper for a bit. He settled down after a few minutes and was fine for the rest of the show. This was also after a 4.5 h baseball game, so he was a trooper. :)

He makes this face a LOT and really likes to stick his tongue out at us!

This goofy look cracked me up!

He is getting stronger every day! He holds his head up for 10-20 seconds at a time now, is far less wobbly when he does it, and is more tolerant of tummy time since he's stronger. He grabs at things much better now and has a very strong grip. (Mostly utilized for grabbing Daddy's chest hairs) :) He sits up better and longer when he's leaned up against the couch too, although of course he's a ways from sitting independently. He has rolled over twice already, but both times he had a little help with a slope.

This is a face we see a lot of too! :)

So excited! :)

This may be my MOST favorite--such a BIG smile!

He still loves many of the same things: Singing, lights, his crinkle book, mirrors, and is starting to enjoy the toys hanging from his play gym more and more. He's really noticing his mirror and the animals hanging off of it in the car more too.

He smiles soooooo much more! In the past month he's gone from a few smiles here and there to really being a great social smiler. Initially he'd smile for me but not so much for Bob, but now he's smiling more and more and does it for Bob too! It's really the best--I could just sit and smile with him all day!! He's had a few little laughs so far which we're loving. He is cooing more and it's so cute to hear him talking more and more!

This is the saddest but also just so adorable! He was done with pictures and gave me his big sad fat lip!

Starting to recover a little bit, but still wishing we were done!

He sleeps less all the time now, which is so fun because he's awake more to play with us. He is pretty adaptable and as long as we keep him up for a few hours before bedtime he consistently sleeps his 6 hours after we put him down for the night, which is great. He sleeps well in his carseat, in the stroller, in the carrier, and pretty much everywhere else, so it's nice to be able to go out and about and not worry about disrupting his schedule too much at this point.

Such a good boy to put up with another pic :)

It's so fun to have friends with babies close in age to our Johnny. Tessa, who is 6 days older chronlogically, but 2 months older gestationally, is a fun look into his future as far as what she's doing! Levi is 2.5 months older chronologically, and also really fun to watch--he is sooooooooooo smiley and laughs and coos and babbles and it's so fun to look forward to when Johnny will be at that point even though of course we're enjoying where he's at as well. :)

This summer has already gone by so quickly but we've already had a lot of fun thinking about all the fun things we'll be able to do with Johnny next summer! He'll be big enough to think the zoo and the Children's museum are fun, as well as the dinosaur park in Ogden, Thanksgiving Point, and so many more things.