Fall Pictures and Our 3 Month Old

This past weekend we finally had a chance to go up the canyon and check out the changing leaves. Fall in Utah has got to be the prettiest thing I've ever seen. And I'm from the prettiest state in the US, so I feel qualified to make that statement ;) 

Liz came home from her mission this week! For her birthday, her parents flew her down to Utah to surprise our other ex-roommate for her wedding. Carly was so shocked to see her and it was awesome.

Milo is almost three months old and it's freaking me out. He's officially out of all the 3 month old clothes, and into the 6-9 month outfits. He's a whopping 17 lbs, 26 inches; meaning he's doubled his weight and grown 5 inches in 3 months. I don't think I ever realized how intense of a growth spurt babies go through! Either that or Milo is just an anomaly. He's out of the size 1 diapers, which kinda sucks cuz I had anticipated he'd be wearing those for quite a lot longer (anyone want some packages of diapers?!)  Milo loves sucking on the back of his hand, but it still surprises him to find it at the end of his arm. He's starting to drool up a storm, which is kinda cute in a way that only babies can pull off. He falls asleep in seconds when he's in the car; we're trying to figure out if we need a new car seat since his feet are almost starting to hang out of it!

Milo laughed for the first time 3 weeks ago and it lit up my whole world. Since then he's laughed a few more times but I've missed them all. He's super smiley for like, 20 minutes a day. The rest of the time he just stares intensely at everything going on around him, or he's sleeping. And he's sleeping a lot right now. He started sleeping through the night fairly early on, about 8 hours a night, but within the last week it's been closer to 10 or 11. I'm assuming that means a growth spurt is coming on again and I have very mixed feelings about that.

We had been bathing him with a baby bath on top of our kitchen table (we don't have a bathtub), but last week he discovered splashing. Needless to say, we're now bathing him with the baby bathtub on the floor of our shower. He loves his bath. It's my "go-to" whenever he starts falling asleep a bit early in the evening. Today I propped Milo up in front of our floor mirror to see how he'd react. It was the funniest thing to watch the range of emotions play out on his face! He went from surprised to scared, to wary, to flirty, to smiley, and then completely uninterested. He recognizes me and his daddy as soon as we walk into the room and he loves to be held.

I think before I had Milo that I thought my world would be dramatically different once kids entered the picture, like going from black to white, but that's not been my experience. It's felt more like an expansion of life rather than a complete change. I still have my routines, the laundry still needs washing (even if there is a bit more), I still don't love to cook, we still watch Star Trek in the evening, I still have time to put on makeup if I want too, and we still like to be together. We just have a new buddy to take along with us :)

 That smirk. Like, really??