3ish months

Oh my sweet girl, it's really hard to keep up with time right now. I'm trying to pull the emergency break and slow things down with you, but the car keeps on driving and you are growing up before my eyes. I just adore you to pieces. You are so sweet, so smiley, and I could just eat your little leg rolls up! You continue to have a delightful temperament. I love to lay you down on the couch in our spare moments of time together, and always return a huge grin back to me and normally a little noise followed by a bunch of spit bubbles. No matter how tired or hungry you are, if I look at you, you will always smile. Even in the middle of the night I will go and get you and in the dark, I'll see this HUGE grin staring back at me. I have a rule to interact with you as little as possible in the night so you don't think it's play time, but it's so hard to ignore you when you're making sweet little sounds and grinning so wide. Speaking of sleeping, somehow you have figured out how to get out of the miracle blanket swaddle which is seriously crazy because it's like a straight jacket. I think you hop your back off the crib mattress and yank your arms up at the same time. Almost every time I go to get you from your crib, you are out of your swaddle. As far as sleep, you take anywhere between 2-4 naps a day. If you're in your crib or ergo, they are almost always 30 minutes. If I nurse you to sleep and put you in the swing, you still do your crazy long nap- usually 3-4 hours. I'm still putting you in the swing after your last feeding in the morning, around 5:30 and you will normally sleep until close to 9:30.  I know i'll have to give up the swing at some point, but it's awesome. You normally wake up once or twice a night.

 It is getting really hard to nurse you during the day because any noise you hear, you'll yank your head around and figure out what's going on. Then you look back at me and keep trying to smile instead of nurse. I normally have to swaddle you up and make it as quiet as possible to get any milk in you!

You are changing by the day. Your hair is getting so long and sticking up still. Of course everyone comments on it. Your receding hair line is definitely improving and I don't think it will be long before you have a full head of hair. I want to put your hair into a little pony tail on top like bam bam, but I think it might look a little odd with no hair in the front :) I took you in a couple weeks ago for some congestion, and you were 14 lb. You have the best leg rolls, and rubberband wrists. You're well into your 3-6 month clothes and size 3 diapers and it wont be long before we move you up into the next size!

Your head is getting stronger and I can tell you're getting close to rolling over. You are always sucking on your hands and are an expert at creating quite the drool puddle dripping down your arms. You love to sit in your rainforest bouncer and hit the animals and you also like to lay under your play mat and look at the little mermaid toy. Your grip is super strong and you're always pulling things to your face like burp clothes, blankets and toys. You're still not a big fan of your car seat, but if I give you some toys, you'll tolerate it for a while. You love being in the bath, but man alive you get ANGRY when we get you out. I don't know if it's because you're usually super tired by the time we give you a bath, or you get cold easily, or you just love your bath that much, but woweee. watch out!

I love you so much sweet girl. I get teary all the time thinking about how precious you are.