Three Months

Initially I intended this blog to be updated fairly often, at least once a week. It's funny how much time I don't have anymore.

Bilal is now three months (13 weeks) old and it's scary how fast it's gone by. He's changed to so much over this relatively short period of time. He started smiling a lot more a month or two ago, and even the odd proper hearty laugh (one of which I managed to catch on video). His little hands are becoming a lot more active now, waving around, flapping about and generally thumping anything in their way.

He's started settling down now as well, going much longer through the night without feeds, about 5-6hrs. We're starting to get used to taking him out, making sure everything is prepared, planning out routes in favour of feeding and nappy changing opportunities.

He's also outgrown his first batch of clothes now and will soon be filling up those 3-6month outfits. He outgrew the moses basket two months and the carry cot not long after (he's a long baby). It's so weird, I can't explain how all this makes me feel, he's just grown up so fast and before I know it he'll be starting school, let alone nursery when my wife goes back to work in March. It's all crazy.

Today for the first time I'll be leaving my son and wife for the first time since he was born for a substantial amount of time. OK, so it's only 4 days, but hey four days is a long time. I think it's going to be really difficult for me to leave today.