Never! Here’s a bunch of pictures from the weekend. There’s Devonte, Ben’s Little Brother, holding Art, then a picture Devonte took of Ben and Art, Art smiling during another trusty round of Itsy Bitsy, and finally, Art crying in his car seat.

Now, did anybody see the Italian ice dancers tonight? The ones that had a bad fall last night and were giving each other the total silent treatment since then? Apparently they haven’t been seen speaking or even standing near each other all day. Sulking. I’m not very into Ice Dancing, but it’s pretty weird to see grown-ups act like kids on international T.V..

Art had a really long sleep last night after his hard day. Six hours! Then he had a small meal at 4am and slept some more. So, he made up for lost time. Now he’s back to normal taking a really good nap. Yeah! I expect to find a happy, rested baby when I get up to feed him soon.

This is from last weekend when Nan was in town. Ben was egging me on to dance “Harder Core!!!” Cute, new pic on the way once I get more batteries for the camera to transfer the files.

Art had a hard day today. For some reason he never took a good nap, just little cat naps. When I left for work and passed him off to my Mom I thought for sure he would end up taking a long sleep, but she said he never slept longer than an hour. Poor guy, he was so tired. At one point tonight he fell asleep in my arms but he woke up 15 minutes later with the most heart-breaking cry. I actually teared up myself feeling bad for him. Something must have been bothering him today. Maybe it was something I ate? Maybe he was stressed out for some reason. He wasn’t crabby, just sort of insomniac. He’s been sleeping for an hour now (11pm) and hopefully will just keep on sleeping soundly until his usually 2:30am meal. Sweet dreams, little Art. We all love you…

I was remembering with my Mom today Art’s old “Pirate Eye”, something that he did all the time when he was first born. Here’s a few pictures of him on his birthday, one day old and three days old. He kept up the pirate eye for a few more weeks, but he just doesn’t do it anymore. (Click on the pictures to see them bigger.)

I’ve actually been thinking a lot lately about how rapidly Art is growing and how many things he’s already grown out of. I’m sure all babies grow and change this fast, but it’s amazing, if you really think about it. And then it’s just as amazing how us parents just grow along with the baby. Take, for instance, the Chipmunk Sound Art used to make when he was hungry. He would go, “Eh eh eh eh” and we knew it was time to eat. Now he’s in a sort of rhythm so we know by timing as well as a whimper sort-of cry. He also used to root around – shake his head trying to center on anything near his mouth that could be a nipple. He doesn’t do that anymore either. He used to strain and cry when he was working “something” out, but no more. His system has matured and he’s not so bothered by it. He’s grown out of newborn diapers and out of size small diapers. He wearing size two! He’s grown out of his four ounce bottle. Gosh! I remember when we were impressed if he ate three ounces!

Art is not yet three months and he has already developed and taught us new hunger cues, learned to breast-feed and bottle-feed, he responds to four songs now (Itsy Bitsy Spider, Old MacDonald, B-I-N-G-O and Momma’s Little Baby Loves Shortnin’ Bread), smiles a lot and even seems to laugh a little bit. He doesn’t do the Pirate Eye anymore, he doesn’t get mysteriously fussy at 7pm anymore, he doesn’t fight sleep as much as he used to or sleep in our bed. Pretty remarkable.

Just for all of you who wonder, “How’s Art sleeping?” he has been sleeping longer bit by bit during the night. Last night he only woke once around 2:30am for a feeding and then was up for the day at 6:30am. That is a great night for us! And for him. Oh, and he took a great nap today too – 3 hours – and then another little short nap later in the day. For that nap I had him swaddled sort of loosely and when I heard him making sounds I came to his room to find him stretching his arms and looking around. I said, “Well, hello Arthur!” and smiled at him and he smiled right back to me! Smiling right after a nap. Now that’s a happy baby!

Here’s Art doing his daily push-ups. And also rolling over. He does that once in a while, too.

Nan was in town this weekend (Ben’s mom). Here’s a couple pics of Art’s adventures with his Nanna:

Smiling while sleeping on Nanna’s lap.

Walking together.

Showing off his pectorals.