3 months

Yesterday marked Liam turning 3 months old. I feel like he's been here so much longer than that. I almost can't remember what it was like not to have him here in our family. So much has changed, or maybe just a little, we are just so glad we didn't wait any longer to bring him into our family. He adds so much light and happiness into our lives that I now can't imagine having to live without him. Seriously though, how could you not be in love with those huge cheeks and big lips?

I find myself, again, being the annoying/obsessed/loving mother that always squeezes his cheeks and buries my face in his so I can smother him with kisses. I can't get enough of it, I just love him so much. Liam is doing awesome and he's getting more and more interactive by the day. He now responds to both Neal and I. Everytime he sees us he gets this huge goofy grin on his face, it melts my heart. I look forward to those moments every day. He is now smiling a lot and trying to talk up a storm. Our favorite thing is laying in bed with him, cuddled up, and he'll just gabble on and on trying to talk to us. We talk back to him, in baby talk, of course. It's our own secret language with him, that only he understands... because we just sound like idiots.

Like mother like son right? Wrong. I pretend that we look alike but we don't...at all. He's his fathers son which is perfectly fine with me... at least he got my blue eyes!!! He really is a mini Neal. I need to post more pictures of Neal's baby pictures so you can compare but it's freaky how much they look alike, I love it.

Liam is now holding his own bottle (for the most part). He's learning to love tummy time but we quickly have to pick him up when he starts fussing. He gets this horrible and disgusted look on his face that I can't help but laugh when I see it. That's when I know that tummy time is over, he's had enough.

The past week we've heard him laugh 3 or 4 times. I am waiting in anticipation when I get to hear that first belly laugh. So far the only thing I've figured out that he thinks is funny is the song, 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer'. He gets a kick out of it.

Liam is doing great at sleeping through the night. He usually goes down about 11pm and sleeps until 7:30. Occasionally he'll wake up for a bottle in the middle of the night and then zonk out right after. I have a hard time going back to bed after that because I just want to hold him and cuddle him. Sometimes I give in and bring him back to bed with us and we snuggle the rest of the night. I love it. I love being his mom and Neal is an amazing father. This little boy is loved so much and I look forward to showing him that every single day for the rest of our lives :)