I’m running late for Toby’s 3 month update!  I say it every week, but I don’t know where the time goes, the days just flit past so quickly.

Toby is now rolling from his back to his tummy, though when he gets onto his tummy he squirms and complains and tries to crawl.  His legs are strong, but his arms don’t work!   When I put him on the change table lying down, if I give him my hands to hold then he will try to pull himself up to sitting.  I can pull him up and if his feet are well placed, Toby will then push himself up to standing.

EC is going reasonably well, though some days we don’t catch anything and at best we’re only doing it part time.  What does impress me, though, is that most nights Toby is dry when he wakes up after 11 hours of sleep and I can usually catch his first wee of the day.

A few days ago, when Toby was sitting in the bouncer and I was busy doing something, I heard him  suddenly squawk loudly.  I looked around and Nathan had taken Toby out of the bouncer and was holding him by the head/neck and Toby was essentially standing.  Nathan is just so desperate to pick up Toby and hold him and care for him.

Our ‘routine’ at the moment is that Toby wakes up around 7 am, he sits in his bouncer chatting to us while I run around getting breakfast for Nathan and getting ready to go out.  Toby sleeps in the Mai Tai while we’re out, then we come home to get Nathan to sleep around midday.  Nathan goes to sleep and Toby wakes up (though he’s generally been awake for a while before that). Sometimes, though, Toby has a nap while Nathan is sleeping.   In the afternoon Toby generally just gets a few catnaps unless we go for a walk somewhere and then he’ll get a decent sleep in the mai tai.  Back home for dinner, and then Toby is asleep for the night around 8 pm.

We tried Toby in the Bumbo a few days ago, but he’s still too floppy to properly sit in it.  Still, he was there long enough to get the obligatory photo.  😀

Toby continues to become more and more interactive with us.  He smiles and talks to us any time we talk to him, and last night Andrew got a short giggle out of him.  It was so cute to hear.

Toby is now spending more of the day awake and has shorter sleeps.  Some sleeps are shorter than they should be because Nathan has started yelling every time I tell him (or he notices) Toby is asleep, just to wake Toby up.  Big brother persecution has definitely begun.

Toby is a smiling, interactive boy who tries to talk.  Last night he spent ages smiling at Nathan, it was very cute.  He responds to us by smiling or ‘talking’.

He doesn’t seem to be quite so noisy  at night now, probably because he seems to be sleeping better after that first wake-up of the night.  Consequently, I have had a couple of nights where I spent the entire night in bed!  I won’t be sad to say good-bye to sleeping on the couch in the sitting position with baby beside me andsupported by a tri-pillow (that’s my breastfeeding position using football hold that I often use on the couch).

While he is sleeping better at night, Toby isn’t sleeping as much during the day.  He spends a small amont of time happily playing on the floor or watching the goings on from the bouncer, so I do get a break from carrying him around now.  I still love the Mai Tai and use it in preference to the other carriers when out, but I use my pouch to quickly comfort Toby when we’re at home.  I do also wrap him on my back for short periods most afternoons, and even had him wrapped on my back in the pool last week so that I could easily play with Nathan in a pool that was waist deep.