2 Months

Really...2 months already?!?!  It is going by sooo fast.

Here is a 2 month picture...

Yes...he is incredibly tired in this picture...it was right before bedtime. (He inherited that beautiful glare from his mother)

So here is how big my little chunky monkey is...

Height: 23.5 Inches (70th percentile)
Weight: 13 lbs. 2 oz. (80th percentile)

Bottom line....he is HUGE!  So today at church I was looking around at all the other babies.  Zac is currently the youngest baby in the ward and there are easily 7 other babies right now (rough estimate).  The closest to Zac's age is 3 months...my baby is bigger than all of them except one!  I can't believe how fast he is growing...he is pretty dang close to growing out of the 0-3 months clothes already.

He is still doing a pretty good job sleeping.  He goes to bed around 10, sleeps until 2ish, eats, wakes up about 6ish, eats, wakes up about 10ish, eats, up for a little while, takes a quick 30 minute snoozer around 11:30ish, and then a good nap in the afternoon.  Though this doesn't happen perfectly everyday...it happens more often than it doesn't.  Good for my sanity

Things he is up to...he has found his hands and likes to chew on them.  He has found his thumb a few times, and we think it is only a matter of a few weeks before he is sucking on them all the time.  We are starting to figure him out and what his cries mean.  He has really good head control and pretty much holds it up all the time.  He is starting to stand in our arms though he can only do it for about 20 seconds at a time.  He LOVES baths.  They are the only way to calm him down at night when he is grouchy and ready for bed....speaking of grouchy....he really takes after his mommy when he is tired.  Neither of us are very nice to be around when we are tired.  Call me a bad mother but both him and I prefer that he sleeps on his stomach.  He still sleeps on his back, but he sleeps better and longer on his tummy (and no flat head).

He wants to be held all the time, which is hard on my back but it is easier to hold him all day than getting frustrated from him crying all the time if he is not.

Bottom line...we love him and get excited each time he does something new!

Zac Smiles!

He doesn't give them all that often...but he is starting to smile a lot more.  He especially gets grinning when we put him under his crib mobile (I have been meaning to get this on tape because it is soooo cute!  This week I promise).  Here are some Zac smiling pictures...these are in progressive order...tooo cute! (and it is not just gas).

Oootah

So we took Zac to Utah to meet the rest of his Grandparents and Aunts and Uncles (less Steven and Em and all of his cousins...he has yet to meet any of them).  It was a fun trip.  He was completely spoiled by being held pretty much every second while he was there.

We tried out swimming again.  The water at the pool was warmer than the lake, however it wasn't warm enough for our little heat lover.  He made it for about 20 minutes in the pool.  We went to Grandpa's house hoping to swim in his warm pool, but unfortunately it was too cool outside and the wind was blowing too hard that when you got out of the pool it would have been WAY too cold for him...so he had to sit out.  Luckily Aunt Stac was not swimming either so her and Zac hung out while Jer and I played water volleyball.

Here are a few pictures from the trip.

Camping...Attempt #2 - Ink's Lake

Let's try this whole camping with a baby thing again...Hey! this time it worked!

We went to a lake called Ink's Lake which is about 2 hours from San Antonio.  The great thing about Texas is that there is sooo much to do outside.  There are hundreds of state parks and lakes.  Really if you are into the outdoors (and heat), Texas is the place to be.  Jer an I are really looking forward to a little bit older baby and a little bit cooler weather so we can really start to check out some of the cool places nearby.   

We went with out friends the Ashmore's again...pictured below...

We tried the water out for Zac...but he was not having it...

But at least he looked the part with his hat, swim trunks and swim shirt....awesome. 

The water was just a little to cold for our little boy that LOVES the heat.  When we are camping he is in heaven being outside in the heat all day (in the shade of course).  He absolutely loves to be warm.  Seeing that he didn't love the cold lake water, we are excited to see how he does in Grandpa's pool (which is kept so warm that you are probably sweating, you just can't tell because you are in the water...really it is just a giant hot tub...Zac is going to love it!).  Grandpa...we are coming this weekend...make sure that pool is steaming!

We did some boating and as you can see below...Zac was SUPER comfortable in his infant life vest...

Really...he could breath.  In fact, the life vest did an excellent job of holding the binky in his mouth.  As soon as we started moving, he passed out.  I really don't think he even realized he was on the boat.

As far as an update is concerned...our little boy is getting not so little.  Last trip to the doctor he weighed in at a whopping 11 lbs. 8 oz.  HUGE...growing like a weed. 

He has gone from a really good baby to an incredibly fussing baby.  It started literally as soon as he hit one month.  He could put a pubescent 14 year old boy to shame with his gas.  I have tried to eliminate a lot of dairy from my diet to see if that helps, which is hard to tell if it is working because if he is not being held, he fusses.  Very needy...oh well, I guess that is children.  He still sleeps excellent at night so that keeps me pretty happy.

We started putting him in his bumbo the other day.  He takes it like a champ.  He is not the best with head control yet, but he can sit in the seat for a good ten minutes before getting tired from keeping his head up. 

One Month and a Catch Up

So the little bugger is 1 month old!  Time really flies when you are completely immersed in nursing and diaper changes all day long.  I didn't forget to take a picture of the event.

Other big happenings over the last month were 1) his blessing and 2) his first camping trip. 

First his blessing.  We had Zac blessed on July 18th.  Yes only 10 days after his birth.  Why so soon?  Why not...but the real reason was that Jer's parents were in town and we thought it would be cool to have Jer's dad stand in the blessing circle for his first grandchild.

Next was Zac's first camping trip.  We went with our friends the Ashmore's to Canyon Lake which is about 45 minutes from our house.  It really wasn't all that eventful for Zac (or myself as I got sick and stayed in the trailer most of the time).  We don't have an infant life vest so Zac spent most of the day in the trailer with me.  Lame.  We will try to repeat the camping experience in a few weeks when we go to Ink's Lake with the Ashmore's again.

Other than above mentioned events...it is pretty much as I said in the beginning...feeding and diaper changes.

Last trip to the doctor he was doing well.  Healthy boy.  I don't know his stats.  I just know he is healthy.  He is a pretty good baby.  He fusses now and then, but for the most part he is pretty calm.  He sleeps great at night.  Only wakes up once a night to eat...however...he doesn't like to go to bed all that early, usually between 11pm and 1 am.  We are working on it, but at least he sleeps until 9:30 ish for me.  He is now sleeping in his crib.  That's about it. 

Here are a bunch of my favorite pictures that we took over the month.

Church outfit