Tummy Time

Tummy time is something Noah and I have been fighting each other on for some time now. For the longest time I could only put him on his tummy for like one minute. Pretty much as soon as I put him down, he'd cry and get really mad. It's taken some persistence (and me actually remembering to put him on his tummy more often) but he's finally starting to get the hang of it. We can only do it for little bits of time (maybe 5-10 minutes here and there) before he gets upset, but that's some major progress from where we were before. So, this morning was the first time I really saw him put himself up on his arms well and really turn his head and start looking around...it was great! Here's the evidence:

3 months

Noah is 3 months old now! Time sure has gone by fast. The last couple of days Mike swears that Noah all of a sudden looks bigger and "more grown up". Bigger for sure! We haven't weighed him in a couple weeks but the last time we did he was around 16.5 lbs. Crazy.

He's keeping us highly entertained these days...lots of smiles, lots of yelling and squealing and just trying to talk back to Mommy and Daddy. He can sort of reach for things (although still lacks enough coordination to always get what he wants), grasps well (as evidenced by the frequent pulling of my hair!), can sit propped up and with help (also in the Bumbo seat) and is really getting into looking at the world around him. He gets quite upset somtimes if we have him facing the wall or back of the couch for too long.

I went back to work last week (sigh). It actually went ok...I'm only working part time now, just two days a week so knowing that makes it a lot easier. We're using a great lady that we know through another church in town (her husband is a DCE there, like Mike is at our church) and she takes care of kids in her home. It's really been a blessing to find her and so far Noah seems to be fine with it. She's gone this week so he'll get to hang out with Grandma Tilton instead, which I know she is thrilled about!

Anyway, here are some recent pictures of our not-so-little guy

Sitting and playing in the Bumbo seat

He happend to grab onto this ring when I was laying him down. I don't think

he meant to do it and actually seemed pretty confused as to what this thing

in his hand was...it was pretty funny.

Swimming for the first time!