3 Months already!

Well 3 months has passed already and I can't believe at how Jacob has changed, I love watching him develop new skills. Right now he has discovered his hands so I will hold toys for him and try to get him to grab them or hit them and when he does I cheer and get all excited. He seems to like this and tries even harder to hit it again! He still has a little bit of a cold, just a little stuffed up but it should pass soon. I did find a digital ear thermometer that was on sale at Babies R Us, I love it ~ not only is it fast but easy to use! It comes with an adaptor so that we can use it too and it also came with another thermometer (the kind you stick under the arm or under the tongue). Babies R Us also had those baby seats on sale (the no name version of a Bumbo) but this one was actually better cause it came with a tray that had toys on it. He's not quite ready for the seat yet, even though he can hold his head up pretty good it is still a little heavy for him and his head starts to bob after a while so I think I will wait for him to go in it, technically he's not suppose to use it till he is 4 months (according to the box?).

We had our Mom and Tot class yesterday and I got Jacob weighed (so I could put it in his baby book). Jacob weighed in at 15lbs 8oz and was 24" long ~ that's more then double his birth weight @ 7lbs and was 19" long!!! :O There was a nutritionist that was the guest speaker at the baby class which I was super excited for, I was surprised to find out that they now recommend that at 6 months your baby can eat whatever you want to feed it!? Anything except honey! ! I think it's because they realize that the older generations have less allergies then the younger ones now and I think it's because they weren't introduced to these foods as children therefore not getting the immunities they need to fight off allergies to them (like peanut butter). The nutritionist pretty much said that there is no point in buying canned "baby food" unless you want to pay more cause you can get the same thing out of fresh/frozen food and pureeing it yourself. It's like they are going back to the old way of feeding your kid. I really liked her, she was young but her ideas made sense to me, not like some of the other nurses that will tell you crazy things. I asked her about Jacob and asked if he was too big, I never really thought that he was until people kept telling me not to worry about his weight!? I never once thought he was heavy until people would say things like "don't worry he will burn it off when he starts to walk" ~ then I would look at him and think maybe they are seeing something I'm not and maybe he is too big!? But the nurse said he is just fine and according to the graph thing he is good. I also asked about his eating habits, you see he is a snacker and seems to like to eat smaller meals but more often, 4oz every hour till nap time or bed time, it still works out to the 35-40oz he should be getting per day but he just seems to eat all the time. I asked about when he should get "breakfast" "lunch" and "super" and they said that as long as he is sleeping through the night (which he is ~ at least 8-10 hours) then not to worry about it. So I won't, if he likes to snack then snacking it is! I like to think that it will train his metabolism to be fast cause he is always getting mini meals and hopefully he will not have my slow metabolism, but only time will tell!? Eventually I will be giving him rice cereal for breakfast and supper so maybe that will help him learn that there is a meal time? He is starting to show signs of being interested in food (other then milk), he watches me when I eat and has started to smack his gums like he is chewing on something. So that's about all that is new, I think soon I need to get into more of a schedule for me - now that he is kinda on a schedule I would like to have a weekly activity. Soon Mom and Tot class will be over and then I would like to take him swimming twice a week, that should help me get back into shape!? Gotta go - someone's calling!! ;)