New pictures of a growing boy

Today is the big 12-week birthday for Davis! Supposedly a lot happens at three months as they move out of the 'fourth trimester'. We've certainly noticed a lot happen in his physical and mental development in the past couple of weeks. He is very good at grabbing things now (in addition to toys he's great at grabbing mommy's hair and daddy's cheeks). He can almost roll over! He just hasn't managed to move the arm that ends up underneath him so he gets stopped by that. He's also getting stronger by the day and he can push himself pretty far up on his arms now. The picture below is him this week at our new Mommy and Me class (it's called Next Step). We're adjusting to the fervor of the new instructor and getting to know a new group of moms and babies (several of which already knew each other from the last class). We're still enjoying or Tuesday and Thursday afternoons together, although I'm finding it awkward to be a flexible working mom. We have a couple of friends like us and it's very easy going, but the moms who have to work full time we don't see anymore and the moms who don't work are hard to get to know since they can all get together anytime during the week. John and I are hoping to go on a picnic tomorrow with a couple of families..although we haven't done much to plan it yet!
Our continuing struggle with Davis is around sleep. Last night he managed to go 7 hours without eating! Unfortunately, he wasn't sleeping that whole time. After we moved him from the bassinet to the swing though he managed a solid four hour block of sleep. We haven't had more than two hours in a stretch this whole week, until last night. It's making things pretty crazy at work and home for both of us to be so sleep deprived (and I'm very worried I'm going to stick my foot in my mouth at work because of it, there was a pretty close call on Thursday at our group meeting). John and I are currently struggling with the decision to buy a bigger blanket and start swaddling him..we're almost at the point they recommend to stop swaddling, but it's pretty clear to us when he's in a position (like the swing) that prevents him from waking himself up that he can sleep for longer blocks of time. The problem is that swaddling has made him so mad in the past that it seems to prevent him from going to sleep, so what would be different now? (Other than that I have gotten recommendations for a different kind of swaddler that allows them to move more inside it). However, one difference is that John is getting the binkie to work!! Yay! That is how he managed to keep him calm when he woke up without me having to feed him (and honestly, does a baby who has doubled his weight by 3months really need to eat every two hours at night?)

The biggest news of the week is that Grammie left us yesterday to go home. We are very sad to see her go, it was such a blessing to have her here to get to know Davis so well. Davis loved Grammie and they had some good times together..unfortunately, not too many adventures outside since it rained almost every day since she arrived. The good news is she gets to go on to Pasedena on Monday to see her new grandchild, Melanie! We are so excited for her and we wish we could go as well. John is taking this week off for a whole week of nothing but Daddy and Davis! However, I'm still going to steal him back on Tuesday for yoga and Thursday for our mommy-baby group. I'm very glad that John will get this bonding time and it works out perfectly for our trying some new sleep routines (i.e. let mommy sleep so she doesn't get too crazy when she's at work). That's the news for now and I'll finish this post with a couple more cute pictures of Davis.