McClain is 3 months!

Here's the little dude looking pensive in his three month pics:

Three months was a little rough because we figured out M gets bad reflux when I eat tomatoes/acidic fruits (pineapple, orange)--and it turns out I eat a lot of things with tomato sauce! We've had to get super creative with recipes so he's not up screaming in pain all night.

 Also at three months:

 --M is starting to laugh out loud (if you're really, really lucky and really, really funny)

 --His dark newborn hair is starting to fall out and blonde strands are coming in along the sides of his head!

 --He is figuring out how to suck his thumb and is starting to prefer it over his pacifier.

 --He will bat at and grab objects that are dangling above him.

McClain is 2 months!

Here's the little buddy at 2 months, right after he got his first round of shots:

So Serious!

At 2 months:

--McClain goes on his first out of town trips, to Cincinatti (for a concert) and to Nashville for the weekend to visit all our good buddies.

--If you lay him in your lap he often strains to sit up, he wants to be sitting up and looking around like a big boy.

--He is sleeping in 5-8 hour stretches at night.

--At his two-month appointment, he weighed 12 lbs 11 oz, and was 24 inches. Meaning he has grown four inches in his short two months on earth! He's in the 90% percentile for head size and length and 50% for weight.

--He's loves to make eye contact with and have "conversations" with every person in the room.

McClain is 1 Month!

Here's my sugar pie at one month :

I will be catching up over the next few weeks posting McClain's monthly stop motion videos until they're up to date. 1 month is a bit of a blur by now but at one month I remember through the haze of sleep deprivation that:

--McClain is smiling and cooing people

--He's sleeping in five hour stretches at night

--He has his first cold after a thanksgiving visit from his infected Uncle

--He will suck on a pacifier or his fingers if he's lucky enough to find them

--So far he is a night owl and sleeps his longest stretches after midnight!

--He smiles and laughs in his sleep