McClain is 4 months!

At 4 months McClain seems to have discovered how to make some funny faces with his tongue and is really in to playing with his hands. Also digging his wee curly cue hairdo. I think in the top pic he looks more like me as a baby, and in the bottom one he favors Sam a bit more.

Other fun stuff my little man is doing at 4 months:

--He can sit up unassisted for a few, exciting seconds

--In addition to playing with his own hands, he's obsessed with everyone else's, too!

--After a lot of tricky nights over the past couple of months, he's getting the hang of putting himself to sleep in his crib, and sleeping in up to 10 hour stretches at night! (and we are very grateful to be able to catch up on some much needed shut eye)

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