Eleanor, at three months old (how did that happen already?!?)...
-You started eating 5 5oz bottles every day on the day you turned three months. You'd been eating 5 4.5oz bottles every day since you turned two months old. You had started fussing sooner between feedings and acting hungrier, and sweetheart, that half an ounce has made a big difference. You're back to going 3.5-4 hours between bottles and while you still get mad when we stop you to burp halfway through, you're content when you've finished the whole 5 ounces.
-You are still sleeping through the night! We are all enjoying this. Before your last bottle we get you in your pajamas and a night time diaper (because you sleep for 8-10 hours every night, your normal daytime diapers weren't cutting it, so I bought a diaper made for night time that we've been really liking, and on the nights when that one isn't clean we stuff a daytime diaper with a couple extra inserts). You eat your bottle and then we rock you to sleep. Sometimes you go right to sleep after your bottle and sometimes you like to spit out your pacifier and talk and smile at us instead. You're awfully cute when you do this, and even though we know you need to go to sleep, we enjoy it and talk back to you :)
-Speaking of sleeping, you wake up in the craziest positions in the morning. We have no idea how you manage to move around so much. Your daddy and I have said that we would love to have a time lapse video of you sleeping at night. Here are some photos of how we've found you in the morning, despite being put down straight in the middle of your crib. (For reference, your feet are against the back of your crib.)
-When you are sleepy, you have started rubbing your hair with one hand. It's adorable. You've also started fighting sleep because you don't want to miss anything. While we love you, the crying hysterically when you're tired is not so adorable :)
-When you're falling asleep, sometimes you spit your pacifier out and it just sits there on your chest. It's pretty cute. (see the photo) However, you've also decided you really like sucking your thumb, especially in the middle of the night. Your daddy and I would much rather you suck on a pacifier than your thumb. In fact, your penchant for sucking your fingers is what prompted your daddy and I to give you a pacifier in the first place. Please, please choose the pacifier. Your teeth will thank us later. But you love your thumb a lot. I've been putting little mittens on your hands at night so you can't get to your thumb. Wednesday night you managed to knock both mittens off and had your thumb in your mouth sucking away when I woke up at 3am. Don't worry, I went in and replaced your thumb with a pacifier :)
-Before you really discovered your thumb last week you had started sucking on your hand. Like, your whole hand. It kind of reminded me of the opening song from Golden Girls (you'll watch it someday; they're classics) where Bea Arthur's character, Dorothy, stuffs her fist in her mouth.
-You love "talking." You have been babbling and cooing and gurgling a ton lately! We love it. We keep trying to get it on video, but every time we pull our phones out to record you, you stop talking. We have one video that sort of captures it, but it's not the best :) You also stop talking anytime we call your grandparents so they can hear you. I took you to Koh.l's last week and you were talking to me so loudly the lady in front of us turned around and started laughing. Daddy took you to the eye doctor two days ago to pick up his new glasses and you were smiling and talking to everyone there. Even the eye doctor came out of his office to meet you and hear you talk!
-You love having your head up and looking around. When we put you on our shoulder to carry you, your head is always up and turning back and forth so you can take everything in. You've got pretty good head control for being three months old.
-We've gotten into a pretty good routine during the day. You wake up (or lately, I've been waking you up so we can get on an earlier time frame since you're starting daycare next week), eat, and then go back to sleep for an hour or two. When you wake up we get you dressed and we play for a bit until you're sleepy again. Usually during this time you lay on your changing table and have some diaper-free time while we read a story or two from the Jesus Story.book Bible. You just grin and talk and kick your legs the whole time. (You love not having your diaper on, by the way.) When you wake up from that nap, it's usually time for you to eat again. Then you're awake for about 45 minutes before you nap again. The rest of the day it's a cycle of awake, eat, awake, sleep until bedtime. You're usually in a pretty good mood all day long unless you're really tired.
-You do not enjoy tummy time so much. You're either content to just lay there with your head down or you start crying a lot. Oh, and you still only like your head facing your left shoulder. You get kind of angry when we make you turn it the other way (which we continue to do because the doctor told us to). But you can lift your head pretty well when you want to.
-This is my last week home with you, baby girl. I'm so glad that I got to have almost 14 whole weeks with you before you have to start daycare, but I'm still pretty sad about not being able to spend all day with you every day. The good news is that it's only seven weeks from when you start daycare until summer break, and then I'll have ten whole weeks to spend with you! You'll be in great hands at daycare, though, and they are very excited for you to start coming. There are six other babies in your class, and they are all girls! You'll be the littlest one there so I know you'll get lots of attention from everyone :) But I'm making your daddy come with me on Monday to drop you off because it's going to be hard. I really wish I could stay home with you all the time.
-You started eating 5 5oz bottles every day on the day you turned three months. You'd been eating 5 4.5oz bottles every day since you turned two months old. You had started fussing sooner between feedings and acting hungrier, and sweetheart, that half an ounce has made a big difference. You're back to going 3.5-4 hours between bottles and while you still get mad when we stop you to burp halfway through, you're content when you've finished the whole 5 ounces.
-You are still sleeping through the night! We are all enjoying this. Before your last bottle we get you in your pajamas and a night time diaper (because you sleep for 8-10 hours every night, your normal daytime diapers weren't cutting it, so I bought a diaper made for night time that we've been really liking, and on the nights when that one isn't clean we stuff a daytime diaper with a couple extra inserts). You eat your bottle and then we rock you to sleep. Sometimes you go right to sleep after your bottle and sometimes you like to spit out your pacifier and talk and smile at us instead. You're awfully cute when you do this, and even though we know you need to go to sleep, we enjoy it and talk back to you :)
-Speaking of sleeping, you wake up in the craziest positions in the morning. We have no idea how you manage to move around so much. Your daddy and I have said that we would love to have a time lapse video of you sleeping at night. Here are some photos of how we've found you in the morning, despite being put down straight in the middle of your crib. (For reference, your feet are against the back of your crib.)
-When you are sleepy, you have started rubbing your hair with one hand. It's adorable. You've also started fighting sleep because you don't want to miss anything. While we love you, the crying hysterically when you're tired is not so adorable :)
-When you're falling asleep, sometimes you spit your pacifier out and it just sits there on your chest. It's pretty cute. (see the photo) However, you've also decided you really like sucking your thumb, especially in the middle of the night. Your daddy and I would much rather you suck on a pacifier than your thumb. In fact, your penchant for sucking your fingers is what prompted your daddy and I to give you a pacifier in the first place. Please, please choose the pacifier. Your teeth will thank us later. But you love your thumb a lot. I've been putting little mittens on your hands at night so you can't get to your thumb. Wednesday night you managed to knock both mittens off and had your thumb in your mouth sucking away when I woke up at 3am. Don't worry, I went in and replaced your thumb with a pacifier :)
-Before you really discovered your thumb last week you had started sucking on your hand. Like, your whole hand. It kind of reminded me of the opening song from Golden Girls (you'll watch it someday; they're classics) where Bea Arthur's character, Dorothy, stuffs her fist in her mouth.
-You love "talking." You have been babbling and cooing and gurgling a ton lately! We love it. We keep trying to get it on video, but every time we pull our phones out to record you, you stop talking. We have one video that sort of captures it, but it's not the best :) You also stop talking anytime we call your grandparents so they can hear you. I took you to Koh.l's last week and you were talking to me so loudly the lady in front of us turned around and started laughing. Daddy took you to the eye doctor two days ago to pick up his new glasses and you were smiling and talking to everyone there. Even the eye doctor came out of his office to meet you and hear you talk!
-You love having your head up and looking around. When we put you on our shoulder to carry you, your head is always up and turning back and forth so you can take everything in. You've got pretty good head control for being three months old.
-We've gotten into a pretty good routine during the day. You wake up (or lately, I've been waking you up so we can get on an earlier time frame since you're starting daycare next week), eat, and then go back to sleep for an hour or two. When you wake up we get you dressed and we play for a bit until you're sleepy again. Usually during this time you lay on your changing table and have some diaper-free time while we read a story or two from the Jesus Story.book Bible. You just grin and talk and kick your legs the whole time. (You love not having your diaper on, by the way.) When you wake up from that nap, it's usually time for you to eat again. Then you're awake for about 45 minutes before you nap again. The rest of the day it's a cycle of awake, eat, awake, sleep until bedtime. You're usually in a pretty good mood all day long unless you're really tired.
-You do not enjoy tummy time so much. You're either content to just lay there with your head down or you start crying a lot. Oh, and you still only like your head facing your left shoulder. You get kind of angry when we make you turn it the other way (which we continue to do because the doctor told us to). But you can lift your head pretty well when you want to.
-This is my last week home with you, baby girl. I'm so glad that I got to have almost 14 whole weeks with you before you have to start daycare, but I'm still pretty sad about not being able to spend all day with you every day. The good news is that it's only seven weeks from when you start daycare until summer break, and then I'll have ten whole weeks to spend with you! You'll be in great hands at daycare, though, and they are very excited for you to start coming. There are six other babies in your class, and they are all girls! You'll be the littlest one there so I know you'll get lots of attention from everyone :) But I'm making your daddy come with me on Monday to drop you off because it's going to be hard. I really wish I could stay home with you all the time.
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