Three Months.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Our little Ellie is Three Months old today!!

What an amazing baby she is! Such a gift from God! It's so crazy that a couple of fools like us could be blessed with not one, but TWO precious beautiful lovely babies.  I certainly never thought our family was incomplete before having Ellie, but boy does she bring a whole new level of completion to us!  It's like she's not only me and Ken's baby, but she's Sophia's baby too.  She's our baby.

About Ellie:

  • She still loves her tummy time. She looks around and giggles until she finally gets tired and then she'll lay down and usually fall asleep.  If I'm there with her, I'll let her sleep on her tummy but if I'm going to be working around the house I'll roll her over.  
  • She is sleeping much less.  She likes to sleep, play, eat, play, sleep in that order. Nursing doesn't really put her to sleep at all.  She takes about 4 naps during the day, each lasting about 1-2 hours, with about 1-2 hour play times between.   At 7:45 she is ready to get to bed.  It's like clockwork.  She'll start getting super fussy and I'm thinking "What the heck is going on?"  Then I look at the clock, sure enough, 7:45.  I feed her one last time, swaddle her up, and down she goes.  
  • She still wakes up once at night to eat then goes back to sleep.  Usually at 3:30 or so.  Most times, she will make noise as if she's really upset but her eyes would remain closed.  Even during the feeding she would primarily stay asleep.  When we finish up and do burpees is when she really wakes up and coos and giggles for us, making it so hard to want to put her back to bed.  She also wakes up when she breaks free of the swaddle.  
  • I go back to work on the 6th so we're trying to get things more on a regular schedule.  The past few nights we have tried just giving her back her binky rather than grabbing her up to feed.  Surprise!  It totally worked a couple of nights we had to get up 2 or 3 times to give it to her and one night she just slept right on through from 7:45 to 6:30.   To be honest, I really haven't minded waking with her in the middle of the night.  Ken gets up with me and it's like our private Ellie time.  By this time with Soph, she was already sleeping in her own room for a month.  We're having a really hard time letting Ellie grow up.  She's our baby!!
  • She is starting to eat less frequently and more quickly.  She eats when she wakes up around 7, then again around lunch time, then once in the afternoon and a little bit of cluster feeding in the evening although that is diminishing now too.  She's outgrown "fussy time" in the evenings so really she just eats dinner then eats again right before bed.  It takes her about 5-10 minutes (usually closer to 5) to empty the boobie.  Judging by how much I get when I pump, that's about 4-6 oz she eats at each feeding.  I pump both sides right before I go to bed (so that I don't wake up in soaking wet agony in the middle of the night), the unnursed side in the middle of the night and in the morning, and as needed during the day.  I'm storing up about 12-16 oz in the freezer every day.  
  • She is completely out of Newborn clothes.  So sad.  She's growing so fast!  
  • She is wearing Size 1 diapers.  We have a boatload of size ones so we're hoping she stays in them for a while.  
  • She is so joyful.  She coos and jabbers on to us all.  She also YELLS to get attention.  If I don't get in there right away when she wakes from a nap, she'll yell at me.  Not crying, yelling.  Like "Hey lady!  I'm done in here!  Entertain me!"
  • She has started to love to play with crunch toys.
  • She's getting a little better about the binky.  She still doesn't love it quite like Soph did, but I think it's growing on her.  It might seem crazy that I'm pushing it on her so much but I really get the feeling she wants to suck her thumb.  Don't get me wrong, I think thumb sucking is totally cute but, it was so easy to take away Soph's binky when the time came and I know it would be much tougher to "take away" a thumb.  She certainly loves to suck/chew on her hands though!  And she's such a drool-fest these days!
  • She rarely cries.
  • When she cries, she wales!!
  • She smiles.
  • She smiles.
  • She smiles.
  • She smiles.  This one deserves four bullets because she seriously smiles all the time!! It's too adorable.
  • She giggles pretty frequently too.
  • She has been rolling over every now and then.  Soph didn't roll over until she was like 7 months or something because she hated being on her tummy, so this is crazy to me.  Toward the end of this month, she started rolling regularly.  She'll go from belly to back in both directions.  
  • She still goes by Ellie, Elle, Elle Belle, Ellie Belly, Smiley, Snort Snort, Ellie-Roo, Ellbow, and (drumroll please) Juju.  Yes, Juju.  A few weeks ago Soph started calling her that and hasn't stopped.  We don't know.

Here she is this month!

How rude.


Hates the 4th of July!!! (???)

Sleeping Angel


Neck getting stronger and stronger!


Sophia Loves Juju


Smiley!

Um, April, I think there's a problem here.


And Stonger...


Soph took this one :)


Watching the ESPYs with Mommy!










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