Today, Carter is 3 months old. I am amazed at where the time has gone. Every day is filled with new discoveries and more and more we are falling into a new routine of life with a baby. At Carter’s 2 month check-up he weighed 11.95 pounds (average weight of a 2 month old) and his head and length was the average for a 3 month old. So far our kid is tall for his age, which is a huge relief to me. I always hated being the shortest one in the class. The doctor said he looks great and we were relieved that his first vaccination shots didn’t affect him too adversely that day. In fact, that night Carter slept for 8 solid hours. He repeated that marvelous feat for 4 nights then we had a couple of weeks of up-once-a-night feedings. Then this week we’ve been graced with sleep-full nights, even one of 9 ½ hours! I am super thankful our kid is sleeping through the night.
We’ve started to venture out more taking trips to Pampa to visit great-grandparents and Colorado Springs to visit cousins for the first time. Carter is an excellent traveler. The day trip to Pampa was really great. We left around his noon nap, arrived, visited, played, and came home when it was time for his evening nap. We tried not to mess up his schedule and it worked out really well. Last weekend, for Easter, we went to Colorado Springs to visit my sister-in-law, Shawnda, and my nephews, Ethan and Bryce. On the way up Carter slept from Amarillo to Raton. We stopped to change him, make a bottle, and grab some food. Shelby sat in the back with him and fed him. Eventually he fell back asleep and slept the rest of the way to Colorado Springs. It was so good to be with family and it was even better for us to get out of our comfort zone. We took Carter to Garden of the Gods (he slept the whole time) and he went to his cousin, Ethan’s, 3rd birthday party. Then we went out to dinner. Taking him out in public still makes me nervous. I’m afraid he’ll have a melt down and people will stare. Everyone keeps assuring me that it bothers me more than it bothers anybody else but still it stresses me out. Maybe that will get better. We celebrated Easter morning with pancakes and Easter gifts. The drive home was wonderfully uneventful.
With cousins Ethan and Bryce
With the Easter Bunny
The last few weeks we’ve had lots of fun changes and discoveries. A friend of my sister’s shared a Baby Einstein video with her. Carter loved it. Since then we’ve been given several others and Carter is in heaven. He sits and watches them intently. He has favorite parts that he reacts to each time. He especially likes things that spin. He makes a lot of noise when he’s playing now and is very loud! At times it’s hard to tell the talking from fussing. He’s been gumming his lips which cracks me up because he looks like a little old man missing his dentures. He’s come close several times to rolling over and I bet that happens in the next week or two. He grabs everything now and his hands are constantly in his mouth. Time to invest in hand sanitizer!
Family Picture
