13 weeks

This has been a huge week! Jacob was going through a growth spurt and eating constantly, which drove his Mama a little crazy, but is totally worth it. He's turning into a solid little baby! Almost overnight he has developed hand/eye coordination - he has started regularly batting at toys, and occasionally managing to grab on to them and navigate them up to his perpetually drool-filled mouth. He has started preferring his fingers (and sometimes his whole hand) to his binky and I frequently know he's up from a nap because of the "slurp, slurp, slurp" coming from his crib rather than crying. All this drooling and sucking leads me to believe that the teething process has begun, although Auntie Laura assures me that we're still a long way off from actual teeth pushing through. Which is fine with me. Also this last week, Jacob started sleeping through the night about every other night. We put him down around 8, and sometimes he wakes up at 2-3, but sometimes he stays asleep all the way til 6!!! This is great, but honestly I prefer that he wakes up once if it means he sleeps until 7 instead of 6. I am just not ready to start my day that early.

As you can see from the pictures, he is smiling lots and lot now. I think that Jacob has really caught up on a lot of developmental stuff that he was kind of slow to reach at first. The only thing he is still struggling with is his tummy time. Doesn't truck with it. He can lift his head up and push his arms up when he is on his Boppy, but doesn't like to do it when he's on a flat surface. He would much rather take the opportunity to suck on his hand a little more and drool all over whatever he is laying on.

If you click on the album and open it up in Picasa, you'll see that some of these are videos. Enjoy!