3 months!

The weeks are flying by and all of a sudden our little baby is already 3 months old and our little girl is almost two years old! Last week was wonderful... fun-filled sunny mornings at various playgroups, long midday naps enjoyed by all of us (except Steve, of course), and good spirits all around. But not every week can be like that; this week it's rainy, both kids have a cold, and Madeleine has been refusing to nap and very moody.  One second she's asking for cheese, the next she's crying and pushing it away because I've already started to cut a piece for her, and then she starts eating it as the tears roll down her cheeks. She is certainly good entertainment for Ross.

He weighed in yesterday at 15lb 3oz and 63 cm long. His weight gain has slowed down a bit and he's dropped from 91st percentile to 75th. Although this seemed odd to me at first, apparently it can be normal around this age for weight gain to plateau. He has started noticing his hands and holding onto toys (when Madeleine is kind enough to let him have one) and he loves watching his big sister.

We did some baking this week, to help pass the rainy days, and M got completely covered in the dry ingredients when she decided flour is actually quite yummy to eat.

Other rainy day activities for Madeleine have included: wearing a frilly tutu dress, taking everything out of my wallet at least once, and cuddling with Ross on the couch.

Ross is still a happy, smiley little boy, with really wild hair. It's thinning and lightening a bit, but not really falling out at all. His eyes are still a deep blue, and he's generally quite happy on his tummy, although I haven't been that good at remembering to give him "tummy time".  Aside from this week, when he's been very congested at night, he's still waking just once in the early morning to eat. He often sleeps a couple of hours at a time during the day, which is wonderful since Madeleine was a cat-napper for her first year.

Steve has been hard at work these days, often putting in extra hours in the evenings and on weekends. He's preparing for some visitors from the US at the end of the month, who are interested in the spectrograph he built for his PhD. It's been a good motivator to get a few relevant chapters of his thesis done, and he's already received some really positive feedback.