Miss B ~ HAPPY 3 Months!!

Happy 3 Month Birthday Sweet GIRL!!!

What fun we are having with you as an addition to our family! We ALL are addicted to making you smile, hearing you talk and watching you take in EVERYTHING! You are the MOST content little baby and I am EATING up every single second with you. I just wish that more of them happened during the day vs. the night. :)

I looked back at your big sister's 3 month post

and have noticed there is a LOT different... a little bit the same but you sure are your own girl. You typically wake up for the day around 5-5:30 (ack) and then love a nice LONG morning nap from about 6:45-7ish to close to 10. If we are home you sleep in your crib in the room you'll share with Minnie (HOPEFULLY VERY SOON!) and I think you LOVE it in there. You get wrapped in a blanket, given a bink and put down. You lay there quietly and then go right off to sleep. Once you wake up you eat and then will hang out and play. You prefer to be entertained which works out OK right now because Minnie is in the entertaining BUSINESS.

 

You'll typically take another little rest and then eat again (3 hours after the last time). Right now it seems like you and your big sis are "off" as far as napping together and that makes for long days for this Mama who would LOVE to take a snooze! It does give you and I an opportunity to snuggle and chat and play though and these days are fleeting so I'm trying to enjoy the moments. :) After afternoon naps, you eat again around 4ish and will hang out to play with Daddy, sit with us during dinner and use your big girl voice. You are a little more "fussy" around dinner time but nothing too bad and you usually just want your big girl crib. You'll eat again and then go to bed for the night between 8-8:30 but I'm pretty sure you'd prefer to go to sleep at 6. Trying to get this all figured out...

The past couple of weeks we've had some rough goes at night. You aren't "grouchy" per say but just unsettled. You are squirming and squawking at 11ish, 12ish, 1ish and finally around 2 after I've been out of bed 4-5 times to re-insert the binky, you eat and will sleep from 3ish until 5ish. Rough goes for the Mom round these parts. One of your parents doesn't require as much sleep and lemme clue yah in... I'M NOT THAT PARENT. :)

You are wearing mostly 3-6 month clothes and size 2 diapers. You LOVE people to talk to you but you are starting to come into the "Stranger Danger" phase which is new for me because Minnie never did that. You know your Mama and you do love me quite a bit :) (The feeling is mutual :) Minnie is also one of your biggest fans and it makes me smile to watch you both talking and smiling and giggling at each other :) You, just this week, started doing "raspberries" and trying to laugh. THE BEST NOISE EVER!!! :) You love to ride in the car but getting all bundled and INTO the "bucket" is not usually your favorite part.

I can't imagine being THIS sleep deprived for anyone else my sweet love. You are a JOY to be around and I can't even get my mind around how fast the next 3 months are going to go. Here's praying you are sleeping through the night by then.