Kemper is 3 months old!

Our little monkey boy is already 3 months old, how can that be?  Kemper has been such a wonderful addition to our family.  He has brought out an absolutely caring, mothering, nurturing, playful side of Peyton.  She really enjoys playing with him, holding him, giving him his pacifier, and generally being around Kemper.  This three month mark has brought along many smiles from our little guy, lots of sleeping adventures, and cooing and giggles that warm our hearts. 

Eating:
Kemper is still exclusively breastfed and that is going great.  He is also taking bottles of breast milk now and has no problem going back and forth between bottle and breast.  Currently, he is eating about every 3 hours.  When he is bottle fed, he eats about 4oz at a time.  He nurses for about 10-20 minutes.

Sleeping:
Sleeping has been all over the map this month.  At the beginning of the month, we had just gotten home from Baltimore, so the time change played a bit into his sleeping. He was only sleeping in 1 1/2-3 hour chunks at a time.  This continued for a couple of weeks.  More recently, we went to Oregon and stayed in a house that was nicely cooled.  He slept amazing there!  The first two nights, he only woke up once and the third night, he slept from 8:00pm-6:15am!  When we got home from the trip, he wasn't doing as well, but seems to be settled into sleeping in 4 hour chunks.  We have tried everything under the moon to see if it effects his sleep and causes him to sleep longer (such as a different swaddle, different music, going to better later and earlier, feeding him more right before bed, etc).  It seems the only thing that we really see effecting his sleep is the temperature.  Our house is pretty warm at night right now (70-74), and we think that Kemper likes to be cooler than that (more like 65).  This month, we have also been tackling the task of getting Kemper on a daytime nap schedule.  We are trying out the E.A.S.Y., 3 hour schedule.  It stands for Eat, Activity, Sleep, and You (mommy) time.  With this schedule, he is getting 3 naps per day. We've also started trying to not let him nap in his swing, and instead nap only in the crib.  He does a pretty good job with this.

Clothing:
Kemper is wearing 3-6 month clothing currently.

Doctor Visits:
We didn't have a visit with Kempers regular pediatrician this month, but he did have the follow up ultrasound on is kidneys.  We are happy to announce that his kidney issue has been resolved on its own!  The urologist gave him a clean bill of health, and said that we shouldn't have to have any other follow ups.  The only thing to be aware of in the future is if he starts getting severe side pain, at which point we should have him re-examined.  He was also weighed at that visit and weighed in at 14lbs!!  2 lbs in 1 month!

Traveling:
Kemper has been to 4 states in 3 months!  He stared off with a trip to Maryland to see Aunt Helen and Leigh and family.  While there, we visited Delaware.  Just recently, we took a wine trip down to Oregon with John, Molly, Jeff, Trudy, Steph and Kath.  And of course, he lives in Washington.  This month, we also went over to Spokane for 5 days while John fished in a bass tournament.  The tournament was a memorial tournament named for my uncle Bill. With all this traveling, we've found that Kemper sleeps great in a pac n play!  This month, we took daddy's boat out for the first time as a family and the kids of course are thoroughly enjoying this.  We hope to have many more memories in the boat together.

Milestones:
Kemper has been all about his hands this month.  He sucks on them pretty much all day long.  Sometimes he even accidentally gags himself because he is going to town so much on them.  He has also figured out how to grab his pacifier and can sometimes even put it in his own mouth.  This month is the first time we heard Kemper actually giggle.  And of course the smile is still in full force!  No rolling over yet, but we are working on it!  Kemper enjoys playing under his jungle mat, so we are hoping that like his sister, the first toy he will reach for and grab will be the monkey!