Anderson Family: Watch Me Grow: 3 Months

Happy 3 months to my sweet, smiley, pudgy little boy!

Who doesn't love a baby in a sweater vest??

Here's some highlights from month #3.

We finally weighed baby C. He's a whopping 14.5lbs! That means he's gained 6 pounds in 3 months. And he's got the rolls to show for it. I LOVE having a squishy baby.
Carter is a champion eater (hence, the rolls) and he still eats often, usually every 2 - 2 1/2 hours during the day. He will go longer stretches at night (4-5 hours) between eating which is nice for me. But when he does wake up to eat, I put him in bed with me, latch him on and we both go back to sleep!
We co-sleep full time and bed share part time. Translation: Carter sleeps in our room every night in a bassinet/pack n' play next to our bed. He starts the night sleeping there, but at some point (usually around 5am) he'll just stay in our bed after nursing. We love our snuggle time but to be honest I think we both sleep better when we have some space. If I'm too close to him for too long, he'll start fidgeting and fussing until I move over. Sheesh. He's already a bed hog.
I celebrated Carter's three month birthday by packing away most of his three month clothing. He's wearing all 6 month clothes now. And the funny thing is that these 6mo pants that fit him so well are the same ones that fell down off of Brooks when he was six months old!
Carter is full of smiles and babbles. He knows his Mama and Daddy well and smiles at us often. He's even starting to respond to Brooks. Just yesterday both of them were laughing at each other during lunch. It was great!
Carter has a fascination with the light fixture in our living room. Not sure why. There's no fan. It doesn't move. It's just round and shiney and he loves to smile and "talk" to it. Silly baby.
He's just starting to notice toys. We have a floor play mat that we'll lay him on occasionally and last week he realized that there's toys on it! He isn't grabbing anything yet, but will swing his arms and hands at them and watch them move. It's SO fun watching him grow and learn!
Carter took his first big road trip to visit Grandma Marty and Papa Dave for Thanksgiving. Overall, he handled the ride well. We made one big stop for lunch/supper and several small stops to nurse the baby. The ride there was rouger than the ride coming home though. The first day in Green Bay Carter spent most of the day nursing to recover. Grandma and Papa had a great time playing with C. And Carter loved Papa Dave's beard - he'd just press his face into it and close his eyes as he felt it.
Carter has become a thumb/finger sucker. He's not partial to any particular finger, just whatever he can get in his mouth - sometimes the whole fist. At first we weren't sure that we liked this new habit, thinking of how difficult it could be to wean him of it later. But when I found that this ...