You have been quite the sleeper, at first sleeping almost all day and sleeping really well at night only waking up to eat twice a night about every four hours. Lately you've had more awake time during the day and more and more you've discovered how much you love being held and talked to. So you usually prefer that to hanging out in the swing, rocker, or any other moving contraption. You also like to be held in the wrap and will settle for a pacifier now and then. It's nice to see you stop crying as soon as I pick you up. You are very similar to Sofia as a baby, the way you look, the way you eat and sleep, but in this way you are different. Sofia always seemed to have good reason to cry and simply picking her up and holding her didn't necessarily put an end to it. She would look at me with a concentrated look that created a wrinkle in her forehead and often caused her to go cross-eyed. You look at me with a relaxed contented look and you've even started cooing around 3 weeks and now you're smiling! Yes, smiling and not even by accident or from gas. You actually like it when I talk to you, a sharp contrast from Sofia who didn't crack a smile until she was like one and half or something. Sorry Sofia, comparisons are inevitable.
You've lost a bit of hair mostly on either side of the mohawk and some on the sides of your head where you seem to sleep on the most. But, you still have some long hairs left and it's staying dark. Sofia's started out like yours but began falling off and lightening in color immediately. (You can see her at this age here). You're getting much better head control (something Sofia had as soon as she came out of the womb) and sometimes you gently stroke my arm with your little hand as a I hold you. It's SO cute. The other day, I even caught you moving, or should we say tapping your foot to the rhythm of your suckling as you nursed. Along with these developing motor skills, you've started pulling my hair and scratching the crap out of my neck. Your nails are very pointy and you have your Dad's weird genes to blame for that. But at least you got ear lobes from me and normal looking toes.
You've outgrown your first set of newborn clothes and your filling out nicely. You've been a bit boogery lately. You might have caught a little cold from your sister who likes to kiss and hug you at least a couple of times a day. You wouldn't believe the size of the mucous that comes out of those tiny little nostrils of yours. It's enough to frighten a grown man. The reflux/vomiting problem hasn't been as bad as I thought it would be. It's mostly just spit up and not as much has been coming out of your nose lately, so I'm very happy about that. You still get all choked up when you begin nursing though. It's like the milk is "going down the wrong pipe" and you can't breath and then eventually you're OK.
You're still sleeping in your little moses basket with Mami & Daddy and you seem to like that pretty well except before you return to sleep mode during the middle of the night, you have to make a lot of grunting noises for no apparent reason. This usually elicits a response from Daddy to the effect that he doesn't know what's wrong with you and why you won't just go right back to sleep. I think you're spoiling Daddy with your good behavior. Your poopies and silent gases are getting stinkier though. The other day, I started getting angry with the dogs thinking they had pooped in the house and I might have stepped on it because the smell was so bad and seem to keep following me around and then I discovered it was just you.
