Ivan is Three Months Old

Ivan is three months old these days. He's getting big. And by big I mean tall. He's a very long baby but not so much a chubby baby like Lincoln was. Ivan is getting more interactive as the days go by. He smiles and coos and laughs a lot now. He's getting really good at grabbing a hold of things in front of him, like the strand of beads we put on his chair, or my hair (that's a favorite).

He's doing a little better with sleeping. He usually goes to bed around 10:00 - 10:30 and wakes up somewhere around 3:00 or 4:00 and then again around 6:00 or 7:00. He has a fussy period at night that starts about dinner time and ends when he finally falls asleep around 10:30pm. He usually takes a morning nap and an early afternoon nap. These naps usually last between an hour and three hours. And then he'll take sporadic little 15 - 20 minute naps here and there throughout the day.

Ivan loves to be up and able to see. Sometimes he cries just because he wants to be up, so consequently he gets held a lot. He also like to be in his jumpy seat, and will stay in there contentedly for about 20 minutes at a time. (That is if we can keep Lincoln from pushing the swing.)

We are all the way switched over to formula now. No, I didn't make my goal of reaching three months, but it just wasn't worth the stress anymore, and things are a lot happier around here now that Ivan just takes a bottle. He has adjusted to the formula a lot better than Lincoln did too. It doesn't make Ivan constipated, and even though he is pretty spitty it's usually only right after he's eaten.

All of Ivan's beautiful dark hair that I worked so hard to put on his head is in the process of falling out. He kind of has the "Larry Ropelato" hair style going on right now, haha! But don't worry, he's still cute! (Ivan, not Larry.)

Ivan has also recently picked up the habit of sucking on his burp clothes. Lincoln never did this, so I don't know, maybe Ivan is weird. But sometimes when he's crying and he's not hungry, not poopy or wet, doesn't want the binkie etc, if you hand him a burp cloth (a clean one of course) he'll grab it, and stick part of it in his mouth and kind of chew/suck on it, and it calms him right down. So maybe that means he's destined to be a blankie baby or something. I guess we'll have to keep on the look out and see what happens. But it is causing me to have to haul around one more burp cloth than I already do. Oh well though, I'd rather it be a piece of cloth than a binkie I think.

Anyways, we love our little Ivan and watching him grow and develop his personality is so exciting. Here's to another month!