Big Boy

Jackson is changing so much. And doing it at a more rapid pace than I was hoping he'd do it. All of the sudden it seems like he's growing into a little boy and is not the cuddly baby he once was. I never imagined that I would like the cuddly baby stage. When it comes to other people's kids they just eat sleep and poop. But when it's your own baby, you want to hold onto every second and find a way to extend time to make it last longer. At any rate, it seems to be going by pretty quickly. I can hardly believe that he is 3 months old already.

These are the things that Jackson has been up to in the last week or so.

Chewing on Elmo's Eye. He never uses his toys for what they are meant for.
Teething. Most people would say it's not possible for a 3 month old to be cutting teeth. However his 2 bottom teeth are coming with force. We can see them quite clearly under his gum's waiting to pop through. He is drooling constantly. We have to keep a bib on him, and even then he soaks through his clothes. He's a bit crankier too. He chews on everything as you can see from the pictures above. It's only a matter of time before those teeth break through and show their pearly white heads.
His taste in clothing has changed. No more fluffy baby stuff for this little guy. He wants to be the fashion icon for his generation. Check him out in his new big boy clothes.
He wants to sit up and face out. He refuses to sit facing us anymore, and hates even more to be cradled like a little baby. He wants to see everything. He is holding his head up now. He loves his high chair. He can sit in it while we are in the kitchen and check things out.
He wants to do it himself. Since he was just a few days old, he has tried to "help" us with everything we do. Change his diaper, get him dressed, he's right there trying to do it himself. He started holding his own bottle when he was 5 weeks old. But now he wants to do it himself all the time. He's pretty excited to start eating a few solids in the next month or so.

He is gaining weight at a quicker pace now. Thank God for that. He has gone up a size in his clothes. We are now wearing 6-9 month onesies. I've cleaned out his dresser and taken all of his clothes out that were too small. And we have replaced everything with bigger sizes already. He loves to talk and jabber on and on. Sometimes he will grab our noses and lips. And he has now started mimicking us. He is now pretty into his toys. We got him a big toy box for the living room to keep all of his goodies at hand. It's so strange how he recognizes his favorite toys already.

He has also developed quite the little attitude. He wants what he wants. In the last week he has rolled his eyes at me when I talked to him in a high pitched baby voice. He pulled my glasses off my face and thought it was hysterical. And recently he has started making this grunting sighing noise when I give him to many kisses. As is to say, ugh mom enough with the kisses. He has his limit. He has also decided that he would rather sit on Daddy's lap sometimes. And he makes it pretty clear by throwing his head back and arching his back and crying until I hand him over to his Dad. Then he is perfectly content to sit and watch tv like a big boy with Daddy. He's still very much into Mama. I've got the touch. Sometimes I'm the only thing he could ever want. But I am noticing a little independent person come up from within him and I am fascinated by it. I just wish that it would go in slow motion. I don't want to blink or I'll miss something.