Baby's first Christmas

Tom pictured here with some of his presents. Of course his sister 'helped' open all of them, but he scored some lovely things and coped fairly well with all the hustle and bustle of the day.

3 months

Tom is still a very placid babe. He is feeding four-hourly now and gives me a pretty good nights sleep. He goes to bed around 7pm and wakes about 4ish. Still feeding well. Cries are getting louder but only when he needs something (food or sleep). Smiles a lot and has just discovered that his hands are conected to his body and that he has some control over them. We have clasping, sucking and even holding going on :)

He still has a little craddle cap and his (redish) hair doesn't seem to be going anywhere yet. Moving into 00 clothes and starting to look like a little boy in his jeans and polo shirt.

His sister still cuddles him to death and its quite funny to hear her copying me and calling him sweetheart. She also likes to sing 'Tom Tom the Piper's son..' to him.

On the buses

Today Tom and I went on a little adventure. We didn't have the car so I decided to risk one eye and take the bus to the local shopping centre. I chose a bus with 'easy access'. Timing was good (early afternoon) so the bus was empty and we were able to get the disabled seats and it was pretty painless. Tom loved it and I got all my chores done. Great stuff.

Smiles

Here's a few piccies of our lovely boy and his delightful smile. Nice to see I'm not the only one in the family with a double chin either :)

Huggies Shoot

Today was the big shoot. Tom was filmed from 8am to almost 11 which was a lot longer than planned, but it was because he wasn't up for performing. He was very grumpy and it didn't help that they kept changing the game plan - photos awake, photos asleep, wrapped, unwrapped, held, on the bed. Then when he was finally asleep, they wanted arms up, arms down, fingers open and closed! Phew who would want to be a model ;)

Anyway his first taste of stardom was fun (?) well interesting then - even if he will never remember it. Also, he was one of a final four babies chosen for the shoot but only one of those will become the 'Hero Child' (thier wording, not mine!) on the newborn nappy packs.

Other things happening this week - he is getting into a kind of routine, sleep by 7-8pm feed at 2am then up at 6. It's getting harder to get him off to sleep in the day, he much prefers to be out and about than at home, and he sleeps better that way too. Feeding is getting faster - about 30 mins or so each time.

What else? Well he's in 00 clothes now and his hair is still growing (red). His eyelashes are so long too - is that a baby thing? He's really alert to us, especially loves watching his sister, and is beginning to coo and pull tongues.

A Bonny Baby

Just for fun, I entered this picture of Tom into a Huggies 'competition' to select babies for a photo shoot for their new packaging. To my great surprise we were invited to a casting in Waterloo. We went along, and like all good babies do, Tom decided he'd sleep right through our allocated timeslot for the photo.
The organisers were very laid back about it - amazing really as we were number 179 out of 200 babies they were photographing! They told me to take my time and they would snap him asleep if need be.....but he had to be unclothed and just in his nappy.
That of course woke him up and caused him to be very grumpy. Couldn't get a smile out of him or even a sparkle in his eye. He just stared blankly at the camera.
Anyway lo and behold today we got the call back and were told that Tom had been selected for the shoot next week and will be appearing on the new Huggies packaging! Way to go Tom - a star in the making!

Ginger Tom

Tom had his 6-8 week checkup yesterday with the early childhood nurse. She confirmed what i had long proclaimed in that he is very strong, with a kick like an ox. He's piling on the weight, at 7 weeks and 4 days, he is already 5.8kgs and other factors such as length and head size are perfectly average.
He is giving beautiful dimple filled smiles now and is showing signs of being a ginger haired boy. It's still early days though yet as i remember his sister going through a similar colour change on her way from jet black to her current fair haired state.
The picture here is one taken for his passport. It took a while to get it right and he won't be looking like that for long I guess.