Jackson's Firsts

The last couple weeks Jackson has had a lot of firsts, one of them being his first time in the hot tub and he loved it!

Then he went to Cambria for the first time, not his first time at the beach but it was a beautiful day in Cambria and we got to look at the tide pools a little bit!

He also went to his first movie! Marty and I saw Eclipse (my second time seeing it, her first) and he did great! He's so perfect and easy and didn't fuss once during the movie.

He is starting to smile now! He's been giving little smiles for awhile, usually when he's falling asleep but now he is smiling when people talk to him! He gave his first real smile to me on Sunday when I was changing his diaper and later that night he smiled at Brian while he was changing a dirty diaper. Its fun how much personality he has now!

He also has slept through the night 3 times now. When I say through the night I mean he sleeps from the time we go to bed (around 10:30) until about 5 in the morning. Its funny how well rested we are when he does this and how significantly better our moods are. Instead of moaning and groaning because we have to get up and change a diaper or burp him we are both practically jumping up to do it because we both feel so good!

Now he's wearing "big boy clothes" and is all grown out of his newborn clothes. It makes me kind of sad that he's already in 3 month clothes but he's just growing so much! He's in the 95th percentile in length, 75th percentile in weight, and 50th percentile in head size. As of last week he was 10 pounds 10 ounces and 23 inches long.

We've been bathing him in a real bath (not just sponge baths) and he loves that too! If he's at all fussy before putting him in the tub he calms right down once he gets in the water. Brian jokes around that its play time for me too because Jackson and I both love it so much and find it so relaxing.

Jackson also loves listening to music. This morning he was really tired and started fussing and the song "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" by IZ turned on and I started singing it to him and he calmed down right away. It was fun watching him calm down and listen to the song and slowly fall asleep. As soon as the song turned off he woke back up and I'd have to turn it on again or else he'd start fussing again.

He's also started cooing and has so much personality now! It seems like whenever he thinks we've forgotten about him or aren't paying enough attention to him he'll start talking to us. He will also lift up his head and look around whenever we're holding him and he seems so observant and interested in the world. He is getting so big and we're having so much fun watching him grow!