3 Months Old



Another month has flown by and Lainey is now officially 3 months old! She started the year off with a bang by sleeping through the night for the first time on New Years. I woke up about a million times checking on her. The month of January's sleeping pattern was 7-8 hours typically every night. On occasion she slept 9-10 hours but I think that really only happened two times.

Lots of people are commenting that she looks like me. Her original Dr's appointment was Jan 3rd but that was the day of vicious cold temperatures so it ended up getting rescheduled for later in the week. Our healthy girl at 2 months 10 days weighed in at 11 lbs 11 oz and 23 3/4" long. She was in 50th percentile weight, 84th height, 7th percentile on head circumference. That last one made me laugh because Rhett has this thing about thinking all babies heads are big. Poor baby had to get 3 shots in her legs. I thought maybe nursing her while the shots were given would be helpful so we tried that. She of course still cried but I do think it could've been worse. Her face got beet red and no sound for about 5 seconds and then the tears came. That was honestly the first time I have seen her cry like that. That evening she was fussy and didn't sleep well but the next day she was back to her happy self. Rhett commented that he didn't like hearing her cry it was making his stomach hurt. He just loves her so much. We had many sad days with the passing of our sweet Dakota. Staying busy with Lainey helped a lot. Lots of smiles, coos, & gahs now.

 

 

We can both really get her smiling when talking in funny high pitched ridiculous voices. I call Rhett's his elmo voice. She just loves it. Our cousin Codie made Lainey a crochet crown that is sooo cute. Planning to use it when she gets her 4 month pictures taken at Creative Bent. Speaking of.....picked up the maternity/newborn book and it turned out absolutely amazing. I had no doubts it would be perfect. Thank you so much Anna!!!! We love you. Lainey loves playing under her jungle gym and anything with music. She grasps toys now in her tiny little hands and enjoys shoving her fist in her mouth 24/7. We started using the bumbo seat and it works well when I am working in kitchen. The inevitable came and I had to go back to work. It is unbelievable how fast the time flew by. I did not want to leave my sweet baby at all. The first week went just fine. Lainey enjoyed visitors all week and I know my Mom enjoyed the time with her. I even got a visit on my Saturday 12 hour shift day. The hardest thing was when I came home and she had done something new without me. Booooo I wanted to cry. My Mom videotaped it so that really helped. While laying on the changing pad nakey she used her feet and pushed her body the length of the pad till her head was touching wall. Three nights ago we had an exciting moment......our little bug rolled over. I put her on tummy went to the fridge for a drink turned around boom she was on her back. I started screaming with excitement. Rhett was sitting right there and he missed it too. I just could not believe it!!!  She has not done it since because duh Mom is paying really close attention now. Today I weighed Ms. Lainey and she is 13 lbs 2 oz and 25" long. She will soon outgrow all her 0-3 months and they will get put away. When I go work out with Darla she goes along and just hangs out on the floor playing. (of course Darla has to pick her up occasionally and play too) We are so blessed to have this happy, healthy, sweet girl in our lives now. Bring on Month 4!

 

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