Life with a 3-month-old

Man, babies grow so fast!! It's crazy! Corbin is a little person now with his own personality and everything. It's adorable! Evans and I comment how cute he is at least 10 times a day. Our little dude is a big boy too. Last I checked on my scale at home he was about 15 pounds.

In order to keep up with being able to carry this guy around Evans and I have been exercising and trying to exercise every day. We are our own personal trainers. It's been going pretty well and I think I'm ramping up well enough to be able to start jogging in the Fall once Corbin is old enough to jog with in a jogging stroller (BOB Revolution, I have my eyes on you!). I haven't been able to do too much exercise because I have Diastasis recti (separation of the abdominal muscles) from pregnancy which totally sucks. There's not much you can do to heal it other than let it heal on its own. Luckily its not too wide and its pretty shallow. I've also been eating healthier and so far I've lost 7 pounds since the beginning of July. I'm 9 pounds away from my pre-pregnancy weight!

I turned 30 years old on August 11th. I had a great birthday! Corbin slept in late, and I woke up to breakfast in bed (waffles and bacon) made by my wonderful husband, a bouquet of roses, and my favorite chocolate. I was kinda depressed since Evans was supposed to work that day and I didn't want to be home alone, but he ended up calling in sick to cheer me up. We went to lunch with my mother-in-law and hung out all day and had a really nice time. The next day, we got Evans's cousin to babysit and went out dancing downtown! That was my first time out dancing since before I got pregnant, and it was super fun.

Ok, so less about me and more about Corbin. Corbin is 3 months old tomorrow! He is growing, growing, growing. He's already almost fitting into some 6 month clothes. Here are some of the new things he has learned:

1. He laughs! He has the cutest little laugh. The first time we heard it he was laughing at Evans making faces at him in the car. It was super cute. We heard a few giggles since then but haven't been able to catch it on video quite yet.
2. He can roll-over! He rolls over from his belly to his back, and also can roll from his back to his side. This is a relief because he hated tummy time for the longest time so I thought he would be behind on some of these milestones, but he is able to tolerate it now.
3. He can reach and grab toys. When he grabs them, his first reaction is to stick them in his mouth.
4. He sucks his thumb. He started doing this on his own and it is pretty cute. He can put himself to sleep this way without much help from us. I'm glad that he has found a way to self-soothe. It will be very helpful when we start sleep training in one month. I do want to be careful not to let him do this too often though because thumb-sucking is what ruined my teeth and I ended up having to get braces.
5. He is sleeping without a swaddle. He actually sleeps really well without it too. I was worried that the lack of a swaddle would shorten his sleep stretches, but they have been the same (first stretch is 6 or 7 hours).
6. He talks A LOT. He babbles all day long. He talks to me and Evans, and also babbles at his toys, the ceiling fan, and even the bird poop on the window in the car.

We are taking Corbin on his first 2 vacations in the next several weeks. We'll be going to Surfside Beach in Texas for a weekend with some friends. Then we're heading to the Outer Banks in North Carolina for a week in September and renting a beach house with Evans's sister and her husband. This will be Corbin's first time on a plane. My fingers are crossed that it will all go well.

And to leave you all with the cuteness I've been speaking of, here's a recent pic of Corbin with his giraffe toy (he put the toy on his shoulder and let it hang out there):

From August 22, 2011