All Smiles

Matthew gave us his first official smile on Sunday...and I spent the next 3 days trying to capture it in a picture, with little success. I think the big black camera in his face made him a little leary so that was never when he would flash his adorable gummy smile. But here are a few shots where I came close to catching it...(This is a bib he is wearing...not a sweater...)

Sorry, this one is out of focus and not a great pic but I was trying to get him laughing at the little bear mobile on his pack & play.

He loves his swing and has even gotten used to Nate constantly being in his face when he is in it. I love this picture...it looks like he is meditating and completely peaceful.

He is still an incredibly sweet and mellow baby (I hope I get to continue to say that). His little personality is emerging now that he stays awake more during the day...he smiles a lot and has started making those adorable "cooing" and "ah goo" sounds, they just melt me. I am very sad that my maternity leave is drawing to an end now that we are starting to play and interact more. But I will save that sorrow for another post closer to time!

(Most of my pics are out of focus these days...I have this great camera and am still figuring out how to use it...so I am now trying to figure out natural light pics (i.e. no flash) and I clearly don't have it on the right settings to capture his movements in focus. I admit I need training!)

While his days are pretty routine, his nights have gotten more sporadic and I can't figure out why. I thought he was on course to start dropping a nighttime feeding (and had done it a couple of times) but now he is back to waking at random hours during the night - sometimes he sleeps 3 sometimes 4...and now has taken to only sleeping 2 after his "late late" bottle, so he is up at 6 every morning and our goal is 7 am. So, we still have some kinks to work out and hopefully we can achieve the right nighttime schedule before I go back to work!

Matthew and I have been getting out more and more often lately...mostly to run errands. He does well the majority of the time and snoozes while I shop...the only issue I have had was the one trip I made to Wal-Mart instead of Target...he cried the whole time so that trip was cut short. I guess he prefers Target to Wal-Mart...but I do too...

He has outgrown all of his Newborn clothes and is starting to wear some of his 3 mo outfits, so he seems to be growing pretty rapidly...he is turning in to my little chunk and I love it! Him and Nate might be wearing the same clothes pretty soon! :)