4(ish) months

Milo went to his four month doctors appointment, almost 3 weeks ago now, but you all still deserve to know his stats and to see how cute he is.  

14.09 lbs        29.68%tile
25.75 in long 76.61%tile
16.2in head   19.82%tile

these were taken when we got home from the doctor. such a good baby

at 4.5 months, he is the cutest, sweetest, happiest, funniest little boy ever.
he loves to play peek-a-boo, and as of the past few days, can play it on his own. he'll take a blanket and cover his face while we say "where's milo?!" then he pulls it down real fast as we say "there he is!!" and he smiles SO big. so cute :)
he is happy ALL the time. he will smile and laugh at anyone and everyone. he wimpers a little when he's hungry or tired, and cries if I don't feed him fast enough.
he loves food and is starting to prefer food on a spoon. we can't shovel the stuff in fast enough. if he's especially hungry, or loving the food, he gets mad when we have to take time to put more food on the spoon. so far he has tried and loved, bananas, peaches, peas, rice cereal with water/apple juice/any-other-kind-of-juice-we-have

he notices and wants and has to have whatever we have in our hands, which is usually a phone. no toy is good enough to take the place of what we have in our hands.
he LOVES his daddy. his face lights up and he can't contain his happiness when he sees his daddy.

you can see how big he feels and how proud he is when he does tricks with his daddy.

I sing "when daddy comes home" to him and do actions. a lot of the time he'll hug and kiss at the right times on his own. it's so cute.

This little boy is so stinking cute all the time and has such a fun little personality. we love him more every day.

and now, a picture over load, but he's cute, so you know it's not enough pics of him :)

he LOVES watermelon!! he'll sit and end up eating a whole slice if we let him

 he had just been crying in this one, but got so happy when we gave him food

 he usually tries to hold on to the container of food with one hand and the spoon/my finger with the other

 Milo is so lucky to have such a fun daddy. Adam can make him happy and laugh no matter the situation. The two of them make mommy nervous, but they have SO MUCH FUN, and he never gets hurt, so I just sit back and have fun watching my boys play

 he throws his head back when he laughs. so cute.

 sleeping in the car.

 Corn season is almost over, which is pretty sad for us. Most days I have this orange mug and he can't get enough of it. I usually have to hide it from him because if he sees it, he HAS to have it. He seems to know what it's for too. he'll pull the top of it to his mouth, then moves to a different side when nothing comes out

 reach for it...

 almost there...

 hooray!!! he got it!!

My little helper

I have been working some at the corn stands in north orem and pleasant grove. Milo has been coming with me and LOVING it! He is my little helper :)

He hangs out in the Watermelons sometimes

he pretends he's eating them

 

sleeps A LOT. he takes much better naps at the stand than he does at home. today he got in two, two hour naps in the six hours we were there. 

This is how he sleeps when it's cold out

sometimes he falls asleep like this

 

he usually needs his soft blanket and a hand to the head to really fall asleep

 

But we get lots of smiles

lots of laughing

we play with toys

chew on hands and fingers

and every customer thinks he's just the cutest and such a good helper!

Sweet Tooth

Ok, so he doesn't have even one tooth yet (but I think we may be slowly working on them...), so I guess you would say he has "sweet gums"? Grandpa Buxton is trying to become the favorite by bribing Milo with candy. 

Here they are with a sucker my dad got from the bank, specifically for Milo

this one is my favorite. (we spiked his hair for church, isn't he just so stinkin cute?!)

Lovin' Grandpa for indulging his "sweet gums" :)

Minnie

This is Minnie. She was diagnosed with diabetes about 5 months ago. We got her on insulin and she seemed to be doing better. Then she started getting urinary infections. We put her on antibiotics and thought she was better, until they came back. She started getting skinny again, she continued to need water all the time and was always hungry. She went to the litter box many times a day, sometimes she couldn't go because it was so painful. So we took her in for a second opinion. She had an infection in her bladder (one of the worst the doc had ever seen) and it had spread to her kidneys. The infection made it so the insulin wasn't working. She also physically could not drink enough water. She would need lots more tests and surgery and it would probably still come back. She couldn't take the stress of more tests and surgery. The drive alone stressed her out. 

On Thursday, August 19, 2010, Our Minnie kitty went to kitty heaven. We miss her so much, but know that she is feeling better. She doesn't hurt any more. She's not hungry or thirsty. She's just happy. 

These are the only pictures I could find of her, I think the rest are on a different hard drive that I need to find. But you can see pics of her here, here, here, here, avideo here and here

She always helped us finish our food. licked our plates clean, managed to get the last of the chocolate milk out of the bottom of the glass, cleaned out the pudding snack pack and yogurt containers, etc...

She loved q-tips, milk caps, the things that hold on the milk caps

she always sat on the counter and did the dishes with me/helped me clean the kitchen

She liked slept on my chest and tried to lick my ears

She liked to be where we were and would follow us around the house

She "helped" me with the laundry and would chase down and sock that i would pick up

she loved to go outside and eat the grass, but was always cautious as she left

over all, she was a really great cat, full of spunk and great personality. We really love her and miss her. Goodbye Minnie, till we meet again...

3 months

Nope, not joking, Milo is already 3 months old! Well, 3 months and 1 day old. He is getting so big, so fast. He is such a good baby and so much fun!!

Everyone told us (Adam especially) that babies don't get fun for the dad until 3 months. So Adam eagerly waited up until 12:35a.m. (birth time), so that he would know when Milo "officially" became fun.

We have also read/have been told that around 3 months they should start sleeping through the night (5-6 hours at a time). He has slept 5-6 stretches a few times, but last night, for the first time, he slept from midnight to 7a.m. in his crib, without any interruption! then he slept from 7-10. Such a good boy!! it was so nice! too bad we woke up at 4:30 and had to make sure he was ok before we could enjoy the next few hours.

• he can hold his head up, has had a strong neck since he was born :)
• roll over from tummy to back
• smiles ALL the time
• talks and coos ALL day
• "laughs" every day
• has giggled real, true, honest to goodness giggles a few times
• he has been batting at toys in front of him for a few weeks
• this week he can now grab toys. he has a hard time holding on to them sometimes, but he's getting better and can usually get the toy to his mouth
• he LOVES soft blankets. When he's tired the put him right to sleep, when he's awake, they make him smile
• He sleeps with his hands up on his head and/or face. Some times he has a look of "i've had such a hard day"
• Today he started scooting backwards on his play mat. He was just so excited about the stuff above him, but he managed to move about a foot off the mat.
• He loves to have his diaper changed.
• He takes lots of cat naps through out the day
• He has a hard time waking up on his own in the morning, but once he's awake, he's all smiles and LOVES to talk to daddy.
• He is an excellent, fast and efficient eater. He can go at least 4 hours, sometimes longer
• He likes to watch TV. If it's on, he finds a way to look at it (I'm trying to be careful with this one now)
• When people talk, he'll sit and stare, as if he's listening and cares about what's going on
• He loves to take baths and is starting to kick and splash a little
• He tries to mimic us, with his tongue and eyebrows mostly
• He only cries when he's hungry or tired. He fights sleep so hard!
• he sucks, well, gnaws his thumb! it is SO cute! sometimes he'll chomp on both. he tries to get it/them as far back in his mouth as he can, so he always ends up gagging himself 
• He loves mommy and daddy :)

We love him more and more every day. We love being his parents and can't imagine life with out him