3 Months!

Last week our little pumpkin baby turned 3 months old, and we could hardly believe how quickly time has flown! Sometimes Mike and I feel like if we blink we'll miss something, Holden changes and grows so fast. He's now crossing the threshold between 0-3 mth clothes and 3-6 mth clothes (a fact we're particularly proud of since he started out so small). I now understand why some parents want to have a second baby so quickly after the first--I already miss him as a little tiny newborn. But don't get any ideas--we're plenty busy with one baby right now.

Since Holden's 1-month birthday, we've learned that he is indeed the active baby we initially thought he was. He loves his tummy time, has suddenly become determined to try to sit up on his own (he fusses if we hold him at his waist), and he has always resisted naps. Luckily, with the exception of some fluke nights, he's a pretty good night sleeper.

And if anyone is curious about the color of those eyes or that hair (what little he has)--both are still a bit of a mystery. His hair started out with a slight red in it, which still comes through in a certain light, but as it grows and starts to thicken it seems more blondish-brown. And his eyes are so dark they're almost black. Sometimes they look a deep slate blue, sometimes brownish or hazel. Since I have dark brown eyes, and since his eyes haven't lightened at all yet, we're guessing they'll probably be brown.

And the new parents? We feel like we've gone through a dozen mini-crises, enough now that we're starting to have a sense of humor about them (I hope...). First he wouldn't breast feed, then he wouldn't bottle feed, then he wouldn't sleep at night, then he wouldn't nap, then shots, then a cold, then...well, you get the picture. Pretty much the typical life of parents. And then there's our desire to share the parenting--to be as egalitarian as we can. It's a challenge to co-parent when one of us has to bring home the proverbial bacon, and it's complicated by the fact that I'm on leave but am still working on my dissertation, but we think we've done a pretty good job so far. But that is a topic that is continuing to evolve, and is worth a post or two from each of us. So stay tuned.