Happy St. Patrick's Day

Well for Cason's first St. Patrick's Day we decked him out in green.  Yes, for those of you wondering, he is at least 1/4 Irish as his Grammie GG is 100% Irish.  We had a good day with coffee with a mommy's group and it also included some gardening as spring is just around the corner.  Here is Cason in his Irish shirt and jammies.

Yes, it says... Kiss me I'm Irish!

Shamrock pjs

Three Months Old

Oh my goodness, Cason, you are three months old!  He is getting so big, he is basically out of any 0-3 month clothes, and well into the 3-6 month clothes.  He is even in his 6 month sleepers now as his feet have reached the end of the 3 months and we had to move on for most of them.  I did an unofficial weigh in for him and it read 14.0 even with his clothes on and after a big feeding so I am guessing he weighs about 13 1/2 lbs and at least 25 inches long by my rough measurement.

With only 8 working days left of my maternity leave, I am trying to get everything ready and Cason on somewhat of a schedule even though he is resisting all the way.  He has suddenly in the past week decided to increase his nighttime hours and sleeps for about 11 hours at night.  He still wakes up during that stretch to feed, but hopefully that will soon stop.

He is starting to sit up better and no longer likes his bouncer unfortunately.  We still put him in it every now and then to get some things done, but he only lasts a few minutes.  His current love is the ocean play mat... He has learned to kick the sides which makes everything shake.

I have missed the first two months on measuring him against something, so now I am using the Pooh bear to show how he grows.

Morning happy baby

Pooh bear with 3 month old Cason

Afternoon grumpy face... smiles are rare after 5pm

Alice in Willow Glen

Auntie Alice took the Caltrain down to SJ for the weekend to see her niece and nephews.  We had a great time hanging out (mostly just eating!) in Willow Glen on Saturday and breakfast on Sunday.  She has good experience at the "baby sway" and put Cason right to sleep on Saturday night.

Rolling rolling rolling

Well it may take him 2-3 minutes to do it, but Cason rolled over multiple times now.  I have it on video too, but it is a long 3 minute process... here is it is in a few shots.  I will start to worry about him actually rolling over when he cuts the time down to under one minute.

Tummy time

Cason has HATED tummy time... BUT he is finally coming around.  We put him on the ground the first few times and he does a face plant and just gets very frustrated as the picture shows below.  So we haven't been too diligent on this issue.  Now I have had to up my game as I only have 3 weeks left and a lot to do to accomplish 'the perfect baby' for his nanny Tina.  (we all know I am destined for failure right now)  I have used the boppy for the past two weeks and today I got a SMILE out of him and he cooed at his new monkey that sings to him during tummy time.  This is a huge improvement.  He still only tolerates about 3-4 minutes at a time but I think we turned the corner on tummy time.  On to the next task at hand... napping somewhere other than mommy's arms!!!

The face plant - just 2 weeks ago

today's tummy time with the monkey

just barely catching the smile on film

Miss Amy in town

Amy came into town on Friday to visit Cason.  I think we talked non-stop mommy talk for 3 days, though we did get the chance to catch a movie on Saturday night.  Cason is loving to show how strong his legs are getting and loves to bounce on your lap.  The trouble is, he adds a cute wiggle to it which is exhausting on your arms as you try to make sure he doesn't slide out of your grasp.  Luckily Amy has a lot of practice as Kinsley was the same way at his age and helped hold the wiggly guy throughout the weekend.

My little pooh bear

One day Cason is going to go "Mom, Really?  Did you have to dress me up in all those crazy outfits?"  I figure I am getting good practice at embarrassing my kid.  We got the pooh bear jumper before I knew whether Cason was going to be a boy or girl.  It now fits as Cason is well into the 3-6 month clothes now.  He is even pushing the height limits on those sleepers.  I think he is going to possibly be a tall one.

We had a rough Monday as I had to go back to "full-time mommy" duty without any helpers to hold Cason.  He pretty much wanted to be held all day long which was tough to get anything done.  On Wednesday I had to go to and interview for a possible new client at work.  So I had to drag out the work clothes and try to see what suits would fit.  It was very entertaining to be changing a diaper fully dressed in a suit and heels right before I had to leave.  Cason's Nana came over to help out and babysit him while I had to remember how to be an accountant again.  It was just like remembering to ride a bike. Thank goodness!

Here is my little pooh bear.