Love

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this baby.  I cannot get enough of this adorable face!  I just want to kiss his little face all the time!

So much for that...

So we did the same newborn picture of both Kameron and Brenner in the striped onesie that we sent out for their birth announcements.  I was all excited to get the picture of Micah in the onesie laying in Travis' hands and he was NOT having that!!  So after several failed attempts and lots of crying and a squirmy baby, we gave up!  So here are the pics of the boys:

Kameron:

Brenner:

Micah:

 

Every time we tried to put his arm up, he would just throw it right back down and get mad.  At least in this one, he wasn't screaming, but he does looks a little scared about what we were trying to do!

Looking at these makes me realize that the boys definitely do have their own unique "look" to them.

Micah Update

Brenner calls Micah "Mikey" or "Micah Monkey"

When Micah is falling asleep, he always holds onto the collar of our shirts.  He has done this from the time he was born, and I didn't know newborns would start doing this so early.  It is SO cute.  Most of the time we swaddle him up to sleep, but if we don't, he always does this.

He is a HAPPY baby!  Seriously the happiest baby I have ever met.  If anyone will look in his eyes and talk to him, he just lights up.  I can't even describe the amount of joy it brings me on a hard day.  Here he is smiling at daddy!

He definitely got my big eyes.  In a lot of the pictures I have of him, he looks frightened, just because you see so much white around his eyes when he is looking intently at something.

He weighs about 14 pounds right now and is almost 3 months old.  He sleeps from about 9 or 10, until about 5am, eats, then goes back to sleep until about 8.  It's amazing. 

He does NOT enjoy the car!!  It's the only thing he really doesn't like, but he makes it very clear that he is not a fan.  Hopefully this phase ends soon.  :) 

He has quit nursing.  :(  He has been my hardest baby to feed.  When he was a few weeks old, he started becoming REALLY gassy and uncomfortable all the time, and he wouldn't get restful sleep, and neither would I since he was grunting all night long.  He was always turning red from grunting and stretching so much.  He would also spit up a lot, and wanted to eat every hour and a half...  24 hours a day.  So I was a zombie from being up feeding him so much at night.  So after talking to my midwife about this, she thought maybe I had a milk imbalance and he wasn't getting enough of the fatty milk.  So I started pumping and doing bottles, so I could make sure he got the fatty milk, and he became a different baby.  He started sleeping much longer stretches and was so much more comfortable, and hardly ever spits up anymore.  So that was GREAT news!  So I was probably nursing half the time and doing bottles half the time.  But nursing AND pumping was consuming a LOT of my day.  So we were so excited that he was feeling so much better, but then the little man decided that he liked bottles much better.  So every time I would try and nurse him, he would just scream and scream.  But then you'd put a bottle in his mouth and he would attack it and down the whole thing!  It made me really sad that he wouldn't nurse, but I just couldn't get him to do it.  So I am currently pumping and we're doing solely bottles right now, but we have a very, very happy baby on our hands, so there could be worse issues to have...

I just love this little baby SO much.  I am loving having a baby in the house again, I love just sitting and talking to him or snuggling him.  He's just such a little bundle of joy and is so smiley and chatty.  I feel really bonded with him and feel like every day I tell him he just needs to stay my sweet baby!!!