Sunday, February 24, 2013

3 months!




Weight: ~12lb 4oz (35th percentile)

Size Clothing: Fitting into 3 month perfectly and may even be alittle to small length wise. Started packing up her 3 month and 0-3 month clothing, we're moving on to 6 month and 3-6 month clothing! right now the new 6 month sleepers are soooo big on her! i'll be sad the day that she fits perfectly into them.

Milestones: She smiles regularly now! It's pretty easy to make her smile after she eats. It probably started to happen regularly around the 11-12 week mark. She can lift her head pretty high now during tummy time altho she gets sick of it after only a couple minutes.

Love her Elvis face

She also rolled over from tummy to back once! I think its because her big head propelled her over but it still counts right?? She's been getting better at sitting up. Her head still slouches over once in awhile but shes getting there. Her head is alot less wobbly too altho i do get the occasional head drop on my face. She loves looking around and is alot more alert. She follows people as they move around. She also started sucking her thumb! its the cutest thing even tho i know it'll be a hard habit to break someday. but for right now its soooo freaking cute!



Schedule: Our schedule is still pretty much the same as 2 month. We wake up around 7-7:30, drink our morning coffee (well me at least) walk the dogs, go down for our first nap at 8:30-10:30 ish, eat, play, 2nd nap around 12-2pm, eat, play, and go down for the 3rd nap around 3-5pm. Then i try to keep her around the living room area so she doesn't nap too much more and we play or i just let her catnap. then we start bathtime at 7:45ish and then she eats and goes to bed at 8:30ish.

Sleep: Her night sleep is still fantastic. She sleeps 10-11 hours a night. Hasn't regressed since she started sleeping through the night. We did decide to swaddle wean. Mostly because I didn't want the daycare to have to swaddle her and she's been sleeping so well I thought she was ready. Her naps were a disaster the first day. She slept the first half of her nap like normal but woke up and didn't know what to do. That first nap she cried 45 min on and off. The second was only 10 min. The next two days was okay but still more crying than when she was swaddled. Luckily and thankfully her night sleep was not affected at all from the swaddle weaning! I guess she values her night sleep as much as mama! She started finding her hand and her thumb to soothe when she wakes up from the first half of her nap so i think shes still trying to figure out self soothing but is getting better!

Her favorite things: She loves sitting up now and looking around at everything. She could sit in the bumbo for a lot longer but I'm always paranoid about seeing her floppy head in there so i don't leave her in there for too long. Shes starting to look at toys more but still won't reach out for them. She likes listening to the music in the baby einstein toys. She still likes people talking to her the most though, that makes her smile big!

Hanging out with Mama!

Figuring out the giraffe in the hot air balloon

Daddy time!

First time in bumbo! Not sure what to think of it yet...

Starting to like it!

Chinese New Year!

Tummy time is boring.. I'm just gonna lay here..

Figuring out her hand!

Loving the headband! haha

Valentines Day!

can you spot a baby??

Love her gummy smiles!

Love hanging out with daddy!

Friday, February 1, 2013

Life at 2.5 months

Our days are pretty much the same as Evelyn and I have gotten into the grove of things. Here's what our day looks like at 2.5 months



7am - Wake up! Usually E is already stirring at this time, especially after Daddy picks her up to say bye as he leaves for work! Then I give her 5oz of milk and pump at the same time

7:30am - Once E's done eating and changed, we go downstairs so Mommy can drink some coffee! E just hangs out in her Boppy either looking around or playing with her monkey paci

8:15am - We get ready to walk our doggies. Most days we use the stroller but recently I've been using the Bjorn more.

8:45am - Usually get back from our walk and I start to put E down for her first nap. Our nap "routine" usually involves me swaddling, then letting her suck on her paci for a couple minutes until she's kind of zoned out, then I put her in her crib and she for the most part usually falls asleep.

9am-10:30am - nap! If we run errands we usually run them during this nap or the next.

10:30am - 2nd bottle of 5 oz. I usually try to pump before so that I can just hold her while shes drinking. <pumping is annoying>

11am-12pm - I *try* to play with her although she doesn't seem interested in toys that much. I try to do some tummy time too.

12pm-2pm - Nap!

2pm - 3rd bottle of 5 oz.

2:30-3pm - Play time!

3pm-5pm - Nap time (for Mommy too sometimes!)

5pm - dinner bottle of 5 oz. Then I keep her downstairs since Daddy comes home around this time and so she doesn't nap too long before bedtime.

5:30pm-8pm - catnaps, tummy time, and play time!

8pm - Bath time! I just do this out of routine but she does drool and spit up more these days.

815pm - Last bottle of the night, usually 6oz. It takes her forever to drink this bottle cause I think she's tired.

8:45-9pm - Usually done with bottle and burping and I put her down to sleep without a peep!



catnapping in her boppy!


I'm loving the 9-10 hours of sleep I get every night! I dread the day when it stops!