Liam- 3 Months

My little 3 month old is a joy. 

He has an incredibly cheerie disposition. 

He loves to smile and laugh. Sometimes his laughs are soundless, sometime they are from the bells. Precious!

He still spits up constantly. But he usually smiles about it. 

He has wonderful head and arm strength. He is a fan of tummy time. He is an observer. 

Every so often he looks at you and widens his eye's. Heart melted!

He looks like his sister most of all. But also like a mini Zach. 

He crinkles his forehead old man style - I love it. 

He's not much of one for grabbing things, but he will reach for his animals on his bouncer, and pull out his binky (which he has gotten better at taking).

He is a chatterbox. He gets in moods where he will coo and ah-goo for as long as he can hold an audience. If you do it back to him it gets him laughing. (see above)

He has lost a few weight percentiles but is definitely growing. (He is now smaller than his baby friend who was born 3 weeks later and 2 pounds lighter to put it into perspective) Please don't be confused though, he is still a tall little chunk.

He loves to be held. Always! And I wear him a lot (but I would probably wear him more if he would stop spitting up down my shirt- yuck!)

He is very tolerant of being handled by his sister

He hardly ever complains. Unless he is gassy- that makes him mad. Also, he has the stinkiest farts of any baby on this side of the Mississippi. I don't know if that's official, but we'll just say it is. It would probably help if his regular pooping schedule was more than once a week. (apparently that can be normal for breast fed babies)

He is starting to sleep for longer stints at night. Starting usually between 11 and 12. Usually I get one 4-5 hour feeding break. After  after that he'll go right back to sleep after eating until his 2nd breakfast a around 9am. He also spits up less at night. 

But he makes up for it in the morning. With puking unseen since taking care of friends with low tolerances at high school parties. 

On another note. I miss my green chair. We put it in the basement while some friends stayed with us for the summer. But I miss taking pictures of my babies in the green chair in their bum genius diapers. Unfortunately was never able to get the smell all the way out. But I am feeling an itch to try again. And the chair will be back soon. (I just hate that I missed 2 months worth of pictures in it)

Liam- 2 Months

Liam had his 2 month appointment on Tuesday the 5th (8 days after he turned 2 months old) His stats from that appointment

13lbs. 2 oz.

24in. 

He's 75th percentile for height and weight. He's dropped a few percentiles for weight and stayed about the same for height. But I have a feeling he will make up for lost time soon. 

Some facts about Liam at 2 months:
He is cooing occasionally.
He spits up puddles.
He kicks his legs constantly and is really gassy.
He has beautiful big smiles and is gernerally very content.
He has wonderful head strength and is very observant, constantly looking up and around.
He just started sleeping several hours at night.
He is starting to reach around his face for things like his binky.
He likes to suck his knuckles.
He likes to be held and to be worn.
He seems very jittery and startles easily, although his startle reflex is slowly waning.
His legs are always tightly crossed together. Its my favorite thing when he's sleepy and you pick him up and his legs stay tucked.

I love this boy!

Liam - 1 month

My son is over a month old. Here are some observations from his first month. 

• He spits up- a lot. And when I say a lot I mean that I have no idea how he is growing at all because he seems to regurgitate his entire meal after every feeding. 
• He is very gassy. This is probably the only thing, other than hunger, that upsets him. But he kicks his legs and works it out... sometimes very loudly. 
• He is a bit of a nocturnal creature, usually having his last awake period of the day from around 11pm to 1am. I usually stay up late whit him; we're on a college kid schedule
• During the night he eats lying down and falls asleep in my arms. His gas and spitting up seem to be less of a problem at night. 
• He is a noisy sleeper. He breaths very heavily and snores a little. 
• He makes very sweet noises when he's awake. Especially when he's hungry. 
• He has a hard time latching on when he eats, he just gets so excited that it's almost time for food that he can't stop shaking his head. 
• He is content to sit in his bouncy seat for a long time, or even sleep there, but he would rather be in someone's arms. 
• He has not peed on his mom and dad too many times, but he did manage to get the wall of the midwife's office once when he pooped. 
• He holds his head up very well. I am amazed at how high he can lift himself off his tummy, especially if he's resting on someone's shoulder. 
• I adore the way his legs stay tucked up when he is moved from place to place. He managed to latch them around his car seat buckle the first few times I tried to get him out and almost lifted the seat with his grip. 
• All babies have a startle reflex but his seems to be easily triggered. He is a content but jumpy little guy. 
• He is not especially fussy and seems to be very well tempered. Is is very patient with his sister and all of her friends who like to bounce him, cover him with blankets, and shove his inky in his mouth
• He spent the first few days of his life resembling a turtle. Now I think he looks a little like a mouse. 
• He smiles often. Especially when he's dozing off and you lightly stroke his cheek.
• He only fit in his newborn clothes and diapers for about a week, and they were quite snug. 

We planned to hold off on giving Liam a pacifier until he was at least a month old lie we did with Haley, but he was constantly acting hungry and then spitting up his food, so we tried to hold him off with a pacifier so he could digest for a little while and keep some food in. If nothing else it gave me a little bit of a break from being a human pacifier.

I love almost nothing more than taking photos of my kids. They are precious to me and I love capturing little moment of their lives to be forever remembered. I love trying to turn everyday moment in to art. Sometimes my pictures seem to be sorely lacking. Other times, when I'm not even expecting it, I will get a picture that makes me smile over and over again, a picture that captures the essence of a moment, a day, a personality, a mood, or a time. With two kids it is a bit harder to set up photos like I did with Haley, but I have still tried to find the beauty in the mundane moments of life. I have never been great with words, so I hope I can tell our story through pictures. I will try to add more of these pictures soon, and hopefully I can set up a few more photos I really want to have in the next few weeks. As someone who would like to one day pursue photography, I hope to take advantage of the moment with my own children to try the ideas I have gathered from other more experienced photographers. 

The 1 month photoshoot. 

I am excited to see how Liam grows compared to a basketball. It will be neat to see him go from being the size of the ball, to being able to palm the ball in his hand.