All The Crazy Little Things: Happy Three Months!! + Photo Dump

HAPPY Three Months Noah!

I had to underline, highlight and put the word HAPPY in all capitals as Noahs "3 month" Birthday
was a very happy day!! I am still buzzing now!
For the past 13 weeks I have been feeling like we were running up a hill. Each day was a little easier, but never nice, never happy! But yesterday we had an amazing day!
Yesterday was the first time, I hopped into bed and thought WOW i'm a Mum and a successful one at that!
Noah has always been a very unsettled baby, It's hard to even explain it to people because I always got the "babies cry" comments, or advice on colic and soothing babies. I can honestly say we tried everything!! Every medicine, every massage, showers, walking everything!
He was a great night time sleeper- so we were very lucky with that! But between 5am and 7pm he cried. Most days it would be 10-11 hours of crying during the day unless we drove, or walked or sat in the shower. It was exhausting!!
But yesterday at 7am we noticed a change. We woke up and were shocked at the time. We then heard Noah through the monitor cooing- Surely this was not our child, happily laying in bed? We went to his room and sure enough there he was happily cooing and looking at the monitor? I thought to myself- Ahh we are in for hell today if he's happy now... But come lunch time I realised we had, had no tears. I had made lunch, put out the washing and barely had to carry Noah at all. He was happy under the play gym, or in the pram watching me put the washing out. Come dinner time he cooed at me while I made dinner and I sang to him and we found a few songs on you tube he liked. After we had a shower, and dinner. He was fast asleep. I then sat in bed- In a bit of a shock. What had just happened??

Two days ago we had started giving Noah an extra formula feed in the morning. We have no idea whether he is just growing up or whether the extra feed helped but either way we are ecstatic!!!
It has really changed our whole view of the world. We aren't getting any more sleep than we were before but there is no tension in the house, no bickering, nothing. We realised today when Andrew left for his toastmasters class that we hadn't turned the TV on at all. Normally we have it on as background noise to all the screaming!

Today has been just as good as yesterday!! I've been worried about Noah not being interested in hitting things or looking at his feet etc. I have been told numerous times that he is fine but I don't think anyone could ever tell a mother not to worry! Today I held some toys up to him and jiggled them around and tah dah he smacked it- I squealed and he did it again. Then he got fed up- but it was enough for me to know that I'm on the right track :)