3 1/2 Months

Today we are at exactly 3.5 months from Emmett's due date. We could not be happier with the giant leaps and bounds of progress he's made since his homecoming. He weighed in at 16 pounds today, which the doctor said is about the 50th percentile! Not bad for being born 3 months early! He didn't get his official length taken today, but I just did an approximate measurement while he was sleeping, and I think he's somewhere around 23 inches. Look how studly my little man has become.

Since coming home he has more than doubled his weight (he was 6 pds, 9 oz when he came home), and I don't even know if there's a word for being 8 times bigger than his birthweight (1 pd, 15 oz) Octrupled? Haha.

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  He still has blondish/light brown hair and beautiful blue eyes. I wish I had a nicer camera that captured them better in pictures.
• He loves to talk. All day long. But not just by himself. He wants to have conversations. Jared laughs because Emmett and I can have 10 minute long conversations where he responds with all different ranges and tones of baby talk (Think Dori speaking "whale" on Finding Nemo). He's got a very diverse baby "vocabulary" . If you do something that makes him mad, he shouts out at you with this angry babble that sounds like it could possibly be the equivalent of swearing in baby language. If he's happy and you're smiling at him, he coo's. If he's excited, you get squeals of delight accompanied by kicking legs, and then he has times where he just vents, and he goes on and on with a tone that just demands pity and you can't help but respond "ohhh thats sooo sad, im so sorry"
• Loves to be sung to. His current favorite is "Journey to the Past" from Anastasia. Kind of random, I know, but he seriously can't get enough of it. When I play it on the computer and sing it to him, he gets this special, excited gleam in his eye.
• Tracks objects all over the house with his eyes (which he really has been doing since the NICU. The Occupational Therapist there said she had told people about him because she'd never seen a baby so young that could do that).
• Learns new noises that he can make every day and thinks they are neat, so he adds them into his vocabulary. By "noises" I mean a cough, or a little dinosaur-sounding scream where he gets his voice/throat to vibrate.
• Has the saddest facial expression you've ever seen in your life. I've never been able to get a picture of it, because it comes on fast and unexpectedly but it is enough to break a total stranger's heart! It is the saddest little frown, and he sticks out his bottom lip perfectly, and his tiny chin even quivers. It's a hundred times worse than a sad, puppy dogs face and he has it perfected.
• Loves to have screaming matches. Not angry screams, playful ones. But he thinks its so cool that he discovered how to scream, and even cooler that Mom can do it too. He tried to do it when I took him to the Golds Gym corporate office the other day, and he did his little scream then stared at me, mouth hanging open in a smile, waiting for my response. He was so confused why I wasnt doing it back, it made me laugh out loud.
• Doesn't really like tummy time too much, but we keep at it anyway. He lasts for like 10 minutes.
• Just starting to sleep through the night. (10 or 11pm to 6 or 7am)
• Enjoys staring at the TV, especially if its ESPN or something with lots of movement.
• Is liking walks and car rides a lot more
• Can roll onto his side (He's never still, usually not even in his sleep) haha
• Can hold his rings, shake a rattle, and spin the little barrel on one of his toys (it has little plastic balls inside to make noise). He also has this little ball toy that he can pass back and forth between his hands sometimes.
• Still snores. haha. Gets it from his Dad.
• Most always wants to be held so that he's standing.
• Completely off oxygen!!
• Starting to teethe already! I can't see any teeth yet, but I know he is because he drools like crazy, gnaws on his hands, cries like he's in pain, and had a mild temp a few days ago. (They are probably just coming into his gums)
• Always smiling!

He is growing so fast, I'm already getting the "oh no, slow down!" panic. Now that he's reached the adorable, healthy, chunky baby stage, I'd be okay with it lasting a little longer! I'll leave you with one last

picture!