Benny is three months!

Benny baby is three months!

He weighs about 15 and a half pounds (!) and is 26 inches tall. Our boy is gonna be huge!

He is still eating every 3 or so hours during the day and then waking up once in the night and once early morning.

I don't technically have him on a set schedule yet but I need to get that going. We are thinking about sleep training him here in a couple weeks. Currently he naps in my arms most of the time and he needs to learn to self soothe because he's been waking up earlier because he gets restless and can't calm himself. I forgot how hard this part of parenting is...pray for us. Haha.

He holds his head up really well and is awesome at tummy time (when we remember to do it and when he's not in a bad mood.)

He loves being held or being in the baby carrier facing outwards.

He has the sweetest dimple! 

We blessed him in church a couple weeks ago. We had a lot of family that came and supported and the rain cleared up and it was a beautiful day at our home with lots of yummy food after. Thank you to everyone who came and helped! 

He likes looking at himself in the mirror on our baby swing. But the swing has to be going really fast for him to be content.

He kicks and flails and flings his arms like crazy. Especially right after waking up in the morning.

He has recently started smiling! Ahhh. He does the cutest big mouth smiles that absolutely melt me. He loves when you smile at him and talk to him in a high pitch voice. He's also done a few laughs but those are hard to come by at this point.

We started putting him in cloth diapers part time now that they fit him. He's the cutest in them!

So far it seems as though he hates his car seat and driving in the car if he's awake haha. My mom just said today when I was on the phone with her, “every time you're driving and talking to me I can hear Benson screaming in the background!” Haha. Hopefully he will learn to love it.

He still isn't very good at taking a binky. But we figured out the MAM ones stay in his mouth the best out of any other ones.

He is wearing 6 month clothes! He is so tall and chubby!

His hair seems to be holding on! We haven't noticed any falling out yet which is super exciting. Tucker had already started losing it at this point.

He has blue eyes! They're very pretty and I'm hoping they will continue to get bluer!

He has grown to love bath time, something he has in common with his big brother!

Last month he was put on zantac for reflux. He takes it in the morning and evening and its been a lifesaver! He is such a happier baby now.

He is getting bigger by the minute and we love our Benzy baby so much! 

Two months!

Benson is two months!

He is such a sweet baby and gives the best cuddles.

He weighs 14 pounds and 2 ounces (90%) and is 25 and 1/4 inches tall (99%)! He is a full 2 pounds heavier and 2 inches taller than what Tucker was at this point!

He gained more than 3 pounds in one month! Tucker was always pretty consistently in the average percentile for weight (50s) and high 90s for height. So it's fun to have such a chubby little guy! I could just munch on his chubby rolls all day.

He wears 3-6 months clothes and is now in size two diapers. We have some newborn cloth diapers but he isn't quite big enough for them yet.

He is eating about every 2.5-3 hours during the day and going anywhere from 3-5.5 hours at night, usually only waking twice but occasionally once more than that. The last two nights he has only woken once and went an almost 6 hour stretch last night! It was glorious.

He has a bunch of fun nicknames- Benz, Benny, baby button, little buggas, baby b, big Benny, and more I'm sure.

He loves to eat and his big belly and chubby thighs are definitely evidence of that!

He hasn't started regularly smiling but had handed out a few here and there and they absolutely melt me!

There's no sign of any hair loss so far!

He had a pretty bad flare up of baby acne and has some cradle cap on his scalp. Hopefully it goes away soon.

When he's happy and awake during the day, he has started discovering his voice with little squeals.

He loves to look around and be held facing outwards.

He is still really great at holding his head!

After he eats, he is almost always really fussy and colicky. I suspected gas, but have tried everything I know to help and it almost never does. I am going to ask his doctor today if she might write him a prescription for zantac (for reflux). My friends baby bad all the same symptoms and went on zantac and it seemed to help him. If that doesn't help, then I might start eliminating things from my diet to see if that helps… Let's hope it isn't that!

**I just got back from his two month appointment and explained his symptoms (it helped that Benson was screaming pretty much the entire time I was talking to the doctor… So he didn't doubt me) and he agreed that he suspects it might be reflux. So now we are going to try the twice daily zantac and I'm praying it helps! It should only take a couple days for it to take full effect. Fingers crossed!

My favorite time of day are when Tucker goes down for a nap and I get uninterrupted Benny snuggles. It's the best. And we love Saturdays when daddy is home and can have a morning cuddle in our bed.

Tucker loves his “baby budder” and helping give him his binky and covering him with a blanket. And every day he wakes up he asks for “bent-sin” or “button”. (Both are ways he says Benson's name)

Can't wait to see how much he grows and learns this month!