Three Months
Tuesday, August 10, 2010 at 6:00AM Dear Nate,
Today you turn three months old, quite a milestone since today you go from being a newborn to being an infant, officially. That said, we haven't thought of you as a newborn for quite a while now. I can barely believe you're the squishy little eight pound boy we brought home three months ago. Your thighs are big and dimpled now and your calves are really defined, mostly because you love to stand. We try to sit you on our laps and all you want to do is stand. I often wonder what this portends for when you're on the move. Will you breeze through crawling and embrace walking? Time will tell.
These days you're trying to sit up. Every time I lie you down, you lift your head and shoulders up, trying to sit. When I grab your hands, you make me pull you into a sitting position, but only for half a second because then you just want to stand.
This past week I left you for the longest time I ever have since you were born. For two days, I left the house before you woke up and was gone for twelve hours. It was so hard to leave without seeing you wake up in the morning and greeting you with "Good morning my sunshine!" like I usually do. You wake up cooing and laughing and smiling every day, so happy to see me and your dad.
While I was away that second day, you rolled over for the first time during tummy time with your dad. I hate missing that first roll and it reminded me so strongly that when I go back to work in two weeks, I'll be sure to miss other things. You and I are going to have to negotiate that together. Maybe you can manage to split your firsts between your dad and me. And I'm going to have to leave before or when you wake up every day for at least the first month I go back to work, which is going to be hard. But we'll figure it out, you and me. I promise we will still have lots of time together every night and all weekend. It won't be the same as it is now, but Mommy will make it work, I promise.
Yesterday we took you for your first professional photos and everyone loved how happy you were, which is the comment we get most often about you: how relaxed and mellow and happy you are. And you are all of those things every day. Your dad and I hope we have something to do with that, but most of the time we think we're just really lucky. You even smile and laugh in your sleep and I can only hope that your dreams are about how happy your life is.
You certainly have made our life happier. You are the happiness, my sunshine. I love you.
Love, Mommy
Reader Comments (2)
Three months! Crazy! You have me all paranoid now, though. He rolled over right around 3 months. Tom and I are going to be out of town for FIVE DAYS at the end of August, getting back the day she turns 3 months. Now, I know babies are all on different development tracks, but what if she rolls over when we're gone!! Knowing my dad, he'll have her building a house by the time we get back!
It's a trip to DC with 4200 other people from the company my husband works for. They get it if they hit certain goals. So, although you are welcome to bring your family, I just don't see sightseeing in DC during the day and company dinners at night with a 3-month old as very fun. Tom had to be out of town for 5 days a couple of weeks ago and brought a ton of photos and placed them all around his room! I'm going to miss her terribly!