Wyatt month 3

I'm sure most people are like this but it seems so different the second time around.  I spend so much more time just hanging out and relaxing with Wyatt than I did with Gavin.  We always seemed so much more concerned about milestones and if we were doing everything right the first time than we are the second go round.  Or maybe, and this just occurred to me,  it is because we had so much more time when Gavin was a baby to sit around and think about that stuff whereas now all we do is run Gavin around to all these activities and then poor Wyatt is just along for the ride in his carseat... Now I feel guilty!!!  

Either way, we have so enjoyed this past month with Wyatt, he is really showing his personality and what a sweet lovable laid back little boy he is!  He smiles constantly, pretty much every time you look at him which completely melts your heart!  

He had probably been doing this for his teachers for a while but at 11 weeks we finally managed to make him laugh!  At first it was much more like a cough but we are definitely qualifying it as a laugh.  

And like I said before we are home so little that it just occurred to me last week that we hadn't even tried to sit him in his Bumbo seat.  I honestly thought he was too little to sit in it but apparently not! He just has a whole lot more room in it than his chunky big brother did!

He seems to really enjoy it, gives him something new to do I suppose.

Wyatt has really hit a growth spurt these last couple of weeks.  We had to add another feeding during the middle of the day to keep up with his appetite, which is good because I was kind of worried he wasn't eating enough.  I made it four weeks longer breastfeeding with Wyatt than I did Gavin, I am anxious to see if he gets sick less than Gavin did, I sure hope so!

So now he has 6 oz of formula at:
6 am
9:30 am
12:30 pm
4 pm
7:30 pm

He does pretty good with his belly time or at least a whole lot better than Gavin ever did.  Wyatt will last for several minutes before he gets so frustrated from not being strong enough to crawl.  His little legs push and push and push but he doesn't really go anywhere.  He hasn't grasped the arm part yet :).  Now if you put him on his back you better watch out, I laid him down the other day on this play mat and then went to unload the dishwasher.  When I went back a few minutes later to check on him, he had moved in a complete circle and then managed to move himself off of the mat and across the floor!  No more putting him on our bed unsupervised!

He also hit another milestone last night, 13wks and 2 days, he rolled over from his belly to his back!  Apparently he had done it several times for Clay while I was tucking Gavin in but when I got there and tried to video it, he had used up all his energy I guess.

At three months he still isn't filling out his 0 - 3 mo clothes although this past week they have started getting a little short length wise.  It cracks me up to compare his pictures to Gavins at the same age, they look a lot alike in a lot of pictures but Gavin's pictures look like he ate a baby the size of Wyatt!

Wyatt at 3 months

Gavin at 3 months

All I know is that I sure am blessed with two of the sweetest and cutest boys in the entire world!!!  And they get it all from their Daddy! :-)

What we have been up to October edition

This past month has been nutso with activities.  Gavin has soccer twice a week and then choir on Wednesdays not to mention all of the other activities on the weekend. 

These two pictures were taken by our Children and Families Minster after choir one day and I just love them!!  Gavin takes such good pictures for everyone but me :).

Gavin's school has a Farmer Brown day every year in place of celebrating Halloween.  We were last minute with the costume as usual, Clay and Gavin hit Walmart two nights before.  I thought they did really well.  Gavin adores his boots even if they are 2 sizes too big and fall off every time you pick him up....

Just to show you the difference in the pictures I get and the ones other people get please see below.  The first one was one Mama took and the other three his teachers took... I am really glad they send them to me or I may never have a decent picture of the little rascal!

On the 26th, I slogged/walked my first race since having Wyatt at the St. John's Color Me Wicked.  I now know what my worst time ever will be.  And I was sore for the entire next week.... I definitely have a ways to go...  Gavin and two of his friends joined in after the 5k for the 1 mile run and they absolutely loved getting hit with all the "paint" in fact they went through a couple of the stations more than once which made us the absolute last people to pass the finish line, Ha!

Then of course we stayed after for the carnival where they had some of the most artistic face painting I have ever seen, Gavin was SOOOOOOOOOO proud of his lion face, he wouldn't let us wash it off that night and we only got to take the remnants off the next morning before church with the promise that Clay would paint his face again after church.

On Sunday we had a birthday party for two of the boy's cousins.  Wyatt enjoyed being snuggled by everyone there and Gavin had a blast being chased by all of his girl cousins and blowing bubbles with Uncle Chris. 

They look like the mafia don't they....until you see that Clay's face is painted like a brown lion???  Gavin wanted Daddy's face to be painted too.  He tried to talk Mama into being a pink lion but I had to draw the line somewhere :)

 I just love Gavin's expression in this picture

After the cousin's party we had the fall festival at church, Gavin was Spiderman with a brown tiger face....

We talked sweet Clay into letting Gavin pie him in the face, pretty sure he wins Daddy of the year for that one!

Last Thursday we celebrated Wyatt's first Halloween.  He was his usual laid back self in his Max costume from Where the Wild Things Are.  The thing said it was 0 - 6 months but as big as it was on him I am pretty sure they meant 12 -18 months!

 I just love this picture of them, Gavin is the sweetest big brother ever which is such a sigh of relief because I just knew he would react to Wyatt the way that I reacted to my little brother....which was not sweet at all!

Saturday Gavin got to go on his 1st deer hunt of the season and they saw two deer!  Gavin kept screaming at Clay, "shoot it Daddy, shoot it" needless to say the deer heard them and made his exit quickly :)