Well, Parker is officially 3 months old! How crazy is that?! Not much has changed though since the last post... cradle cap is still going strong, still sleeping good (through the night now for a whole month!), and still rolling around! He has started to stop halfway on his rolls though and just hang out on his side. I think he kinda likes it! Hopefully that will help him figure out he can go back and forth. We did have a rough patch of napping last week. I think it was just due to the 12 wk growth spurt/developmental leap, but we are back on track this week!
Other things going on now... he LOVES his thumb/fingers still! He just can't get enough of them, but at least they keep him happy. If he really gets to sucking I try to catch him and replace with a paci so hopefully we don't form too bad of a habit. Along with the finger sucking comes drool... he drools a lot lately with or without the fingers (it just gets all over his hands when he gets to sucking). I've heard this can mean early signs of teething, but I'm pretty sure we are too early for that!
Along with his cradle cap, the poor boy just seems to have VERY dry skin (gets it from his Daddy). We lotion him up all the time, but he just has some little red rough patches that are always around on his arms and legs. He also gets a little dry around the top of his chest, and the other morning he woke up and had a heat rash under his neck! It was bright red and concerned me a little, so I called the doc. They said don't worry about it and just put some Lotrimin on it to keep it from becoming a yeast infection (I guess since it's all moist in those neck folds!). It was gone by the end of the day, but he's still getting dry around there.
He is just getting so big now! He is 12 lbs now and has outgrown a lot of his Newborn and 0-3 size clothes. It's so funny how every brand's sizes fit differently (like our clothes I guess). He is still pretty skinny though because the larger clothes he is wearing now fit him lengthwise, but he still doesn't quite fill them out!
My favorite thing lately is just how giddy and smiley he gets! The kid loves getting his diaper changed, bathtime (I think we see a naked trend here), and dancing with his arms! Do any of those and you get the biggest smile on his face. It's just too cute... I'm anxiously waiting for the giggle though ;)
The last couple of bath times he has figured out splashing... he just kicks those legs around and gets a kick out of getting Mom and Dad wet! He is actually quite the kicker in general. He's got this "Houdini Kick" as Kyle calls it - when he's in bed he will lift both legs up real high, then kick them out straight and push them down. He does this over and over until he gets his feet free from the swaddle. It's hilarious!
Parker made his first trip to Joe T. Garcia's a couple weeks ago! My cousin Allison just graduated from SMU (congrats to her!) so we went out there for a celebratory lunch! The food was amazing as usual, but we got there right when a monsoon came through. Our poor waitress... we were sitting in a special room in which she had to go outside to get to! They were great though and kept the ritas and food coming through the storm!
Kyle's parents came up to visit this past weekend. It was great to see them, and I know they enjoyed getting to spend time with Parker. Easter was the last time they saw him, so it had been about 6 or 7 weeks. We are going up to the lake this weekend for Memorial Day! It will be his first
real weekend at the lake. All the other times we've been there it hasn't really been a normal weekend. He won't get to be down at the boathouse a ton with the heat, but we will have to get him down there a little bit!
Happy Memorial Day and have a safe and fun weekend!
