He's getting so big! Our chunky Monkey weighs about 13.5 lbs and I haven't measured his length in awhile! He's growing out of 3 month clothes and is finally starting to fit better into the one size pocket diapers. He's been a really tough kid to diaper so far. He's stocky.. wide but short and even though his thighs are chunky, they're not chunky enough to get a good fit on diapers. Plus he's a super pee producer. Basically, if a diaper fits him in height and around his legs, it doesn't hold enough pee or keep the poop in well. If it holds enough pee and keeps the poop in then it comes up so high he can't wiggle very well to get his gas out, and it's harder to get a seal around his legs. Anyway, it's starting to get easier to get a seal around his legs but it's a work in progress. He's just been so different than Emerson in this regard.
He continues to be an easy baby. He rarely cries, although he's starting to get a little more aggressive in his communication when he's hungry. He still keeps life to a basic schedule of eating, sleeping, diaper change and smiling/cooing. So far, he will only take a pacifier when he's hungry (you know, when I don't really want him to have one, unless we're in the car and can't stop) but never when he actually wants to pacify.. then, only mommy will do. It's pretty rare though. Through most of the day he sleeps fine and needs just a little rocking/swaying to get to sleep at the most. Usually, I lay him down drowsy and he just falls asleep, we'll see how long that lasts. He needed to be swaddled most of the time until just recently. The week of Christmas/the week he turned 3 months, this changed. Previously, he'd get pretty over stimulated easily and the swaddling helped but by the end of the week he was much less sensitive to stimuli. Funny how it changed almost overnight.
What Harrison does that isn't as fun is this strange wake/sleep/fuss/sleep/wake/fuss thing from 10:30-2:00am. It's like clockwork. There have been a few nights where it ended at midnight but it's pretty reliable. I went through all kinds of worrying about things like reflux, intolerance to something I ate, etc (he also spits up more during this period), low milk supply etc.. until we realized the pattern. It is definitely worse if I've had any caffeine, like decaf coffee specifically (but thank heaven not chocolate or decaf black tea - probably because I ate/drank those things throughout pregnancy). I don't mind the alone time with him (or the netflix binging as I walk/rock/nurse etc) but the mornings are pretty rough sometimes.
Without further ado.. my chubby baby and a few with the adoring sister :). Only one more photo shoot in our (horribly lit) apartment and hopefully our house will have better lighting! Smiley as he is, it's still pretty hard to catch on camera. He has a pretty short window of awake and smiling before wanting to eat and sleep again.
