3 months

Yesterday Eli turned 3 months old! I can't believe how fast it's gone by, and yet at the same time it feels like a really long time ago that I was pregnant. So here are a few things he does now that he's 3 months old:

• Sleeps more regularly! If he sleeps well during the day, he sleeps 8 hours at night! (Generally from 8-4) And he goes to sleep almost always with no crying.
• He loves to sit on our laps. His head is much more steady than it used to be and he enjoys looking around.
• He can hold his head almost all the way (straight) up when he's on his tummy (as of yesterday)
• He loves to smile and sometimes we can get good laughs out of him too.
• He only eats every 3 hours now. Hooray!

We are having a lot of fun with our little guy. He's very contented and when he's fed, changed, and well-rested, he's pretty much always happy. It's so nice to get more sleep now and to have my body pretty much back to normal. My tailbone is still hurting me, especially when I sit on anything harder than my couch for longer than 20 minutes, like at church. I'm starting to think that maybe I broke it after all, since it has been 3 months. But other than that I feel really great.

We've had a few fun things going on lately. Last weekend my sister Amy was here with her family. They have a family reunion with Rob's family this week, so they came a little early to hang out with us. So Saturday we went to a pool in honor of her oldest's 8th birthday. We took Eli swimming for the first time and it was really fun. He was a little apprehensive at first, but then started to kick and splash around. Here are a few pictures of the day there:
Here's Jeremy in midair (no, he's not wearing a shirt, that's just his farmer tan!):

Amy and Russell: (And Rob and Grant in the background)
Then yesterday, Jeremy's cousin Robert and his wife Melarie and baby Julia came over to see us. Melarie was due 3 days before me, but ended up having the baby early, and Eli was late so they are 15 days apart. It was fun to see them together and get a bunch of pictures. I never thought of Eli as tall and skinny until I saw him next to Julia! They weighed the same at their 2 month checkups, but as you can see, Julia is a little more compact than Eli. :) Cute babies!
Julia kept reaching over and grabbing Eli's arm or shirt. It was pretty cute.
We decided to put them on their tummies for a contest of who would start crying first (since neither of them like tummy time)......
.....and Julia won. :)
Jeremy and Robert with the kiddos:
Coming up: This weekend we are going up to Nampa, ID (near Boise) for Seth's birthday (my nephew that just turned 8). My parents and little sister will be there too so it'll be a party!