Babysoroos

Someone had lots of energy this morning.

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Today Timothy turned 3 months old. In the last couple of weeks he has gained a lot of head control and shown a lot of personality. He smiles often, laughs at us, coos and chirps and makes all sorts of delightful baby noises, and still sleeps pretty well, at least at night. He’s fascinated with his big brother and loves to watch everything he does, making daytime sleep somewhat less appealing. He’s starting to watch what we eat with interest already, but he’s got 3 more months to wait before he gets to try some, which Ben loves to gleefully remind him of at each mealtime. A couple of days ago he rolled over from tummy to back for the first time, making tummy time harder to enforce. He’s been trying his hardest to roll from back to tummy, too, but hasn’t quite made it past his side. He weighs probably a little over 17lbs, significantly less than Ben did, although still on the high end of all the growth charts.

To celebrate the quarter birthday, we took some pictures of the boys together, in their one and only matching outfit.

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We’re getting ready to apply for a passport for Timothy, and we decided to have Eric try to take the pictures himself at home. Our experience with Ben, while not terrible, was fairly frustrating. They were able to do infant shots, but it wasn’t really their specialty. And getting a small infant with his eyes open, looking at the camera, not crying… well, it was challenging and the resulting photo that met the technical specifications isn’t remotely flattering. 😉 He only has it for five years though.

So, I think Eric got a shot or two that should work. But Timothy chose tonight to decide that he should smile for the camera. Which of course is not what the passport people want. He’s been smiling at us here and there for a little while, mostly responding to our smiles. Tonight it was totally unsolicited, though, which made it that much more fun.

Here are a few cute photos that won’t work for official documentation.

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A few more recent photos of both our boys. 🙂

Benjamin:

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Timothy:

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Timothy was one month old on Tuesday. Of course, it’s flown past, and he’s changed so much already — mostly, he’s grown. 🙂 At our midwife appointment on Tuesday afternoon he was weighed.

12lbs 10oz. At 4 weeks.

Of course, Ben was 12lbs 9oz at 3 weeks 6 days, so it’s not exactly unexpected. Looks like Timothy is definitely growing like Ben did.

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Timothy saw his first snow last week. It started on Wednesday morning, and by that evening we had about 4 inches. School was cancelled again on Thursday. We all went out to play while it was snowing, even Timothy. He was very well bundled up, but still only out for about 5 minutes. Ben and Dad built a great huge snowman with a very unusual head. 🙂

And yesterday, the temperature was 70ºF. Crazy weather.

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Now that he’s not sick anymore, Ben has been very interested in holding his little brother. He does a pretty good job, and he seems so proud of being the big brother. 🙂

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