Three Months flew by....

THEN

NOW





Today Emelia is three months old. I can't believe it, it's like those three months equal three years. She has changed and grown so much, I don't even remember what it was like before she was here. I am also back to work today, which it sad each morning leaving her. I had a conversation with her that she was not permitted to do anything developmental while I am working i.e. laughing, rolling over, sitting up, ect. She spends late mornings and afternoons with her Grandmothers, then Daddy when he finished work until I get home after dinner :(

If I am lucky when i get her in the mornings, she might smile and coo at me if she isn't already crying to eat breakfast haha. Last night, I put her down and she is woke up twice laughing and smiling to herself in the crib, in the dark haha. She is getting easier and easier to get to smile and laugh, usually any funny farting noise will do it haha.

On any given day, her favorite things to do are swing, swat and grab at her toys on her playmat, "swim" in the big bathtub and anything outside.

She has rolled over from her back to her belly once, and I can tell she is trying to do it again. She'll also hold her weight for about a minute now on her teeny legs. I don't know exactly how much she weighs currently, but its over ten pounds, double her birth weight of 5lbs 4 oz. She eats like a monster and is getting lots of little rolls on her legs.

She went on a mini road trip to upstate NY last weekend to see how she would do for a long period in the car, she did pretty good so we are looking forward to a relaxing week in the Outer Banks, NC with her in two weeks!

P.S. She is still advanced haha

Child's Age

Mastered Skills (most kids can do)

Emerging Skills (half of kids can do)

Advanced Skills (a few kids can do)

3 months

Recognizes your face and scentHolds head steady Visually tracks moving objects

Squeals, gurgles, coos Blows bubbles Recognizes your voice Does mini-pushup

Rolls over, from tummy to back Turns toward loud sounds Can bring hands together, bats at toys

Play All Day, Party All night

Emelia spent the majority if the day playing and being uber alert. Now she is spending most of the night being grumpy and uber tired but not sleeping. On the bright side, she was very cute today! She seemed to notice and interact with her toys full on today, even got some smile action!

Shots Shots Shots

This morning Emelia got her round of 2 month vaccinations. She took it like a champ and only cried for a quick second. Hopefully she doesn't get too grumpy or feel crappy later today. I hope she just sleeps it off. While at the doctors, she was weighed at 9.09 lbs and grew another inch an a half. Everything is going really well and she is doing great!

She had been cheating and been sleeping propped up in her boppy pillow at night for a while now since she decided she hated being flat. I decided she is too big and mobile now to do that since I found her half rolled out of it. Last night she did awesome sleeping flat again on her back in the crib like a safe little baby should haha.

This weekend is Father's day and Emmy has been hard at work getting things ready for her awesome dad. I'm not sure I have mentioned it yet, but Mark is an amazing dad. So helpful and hands on. We are lucky to have him and its clear Emelia will be a daddy's girl.

Child's Age

Mastered Skills (most kids can do)

Emerging Skills (half of kids can do)

Advanced Skills (a few kids can do)

2 months

Vocalizes: gurgles and coos Follows objects across field of vision Notices his hands Holds head up for short periods

Smiles, laughs Holds head at 45-degree angle Makes smoother movements

Holds head steady Can bear weight on legs Lifts head and shoulders when lying on tummy (mini-pushup)

(We are still working on legit smiles and laughs but Emelia pretty much has all this covered )

Middle of the night

Figured I would post a quick update. Emelia spent a good amount of yesterday wide awake, looking around, doing her weird smile thing, playing with her "zucchini" (a toy from when mark was little, its like a soft rattle) and just being cute. She has found my hair and gets her fingers all twisted up in it. If you hold her under her arms she can support her weight for a while now and will sometimes even push up. I have been practicing sitting up with her now too. Basically, just holding her softly in position so she gets the idea. My work out DVD would say she is hardening her core hahaha. She is getting so cute, looking more and more like a little kid which is scary hhaha. I can't believe how much older she looks to us, even though she is only just over 2 months.

Just about 2 months old....

Emelia had her just about 2 month checkup last week and did great. She was 8lbs exactly, her head grew an inch and her body grew two inches. Dr. Laura said she is doing great and nurse Roberta went crazy over her cuteness as usual. We need to make an appointment closer to her actual 2 month date for some shots :(

I don't want to get too far ahead of myself but.... I think Emmy might be starting to settle into a schedule. She seems to go down easy between 10-11 and then gets up around 4 and then again between 6-7. I hope it continues and starts spreading out even more. The fuzziness when she eats was becoming an issue but I can already see that its starting to die down a tad, maybe the new Playtex Venti Air bottles are helping. She is still eating really well, which can be seen by the little rolls she is accumulating on her teeny legs.

My favorite things to do with her lately are hang outside and take her for car rides. She LOVES the car, she either looks out the window or falls right asleep. Now that its warm out to she passes right out in the stroller. The other day I had her laying on the picnic table looking up at the sky and you would think she saw heaven. Then we was playing with my hair, which is her new favorite thing, and getting all excited when she stuck her hand right in my mouth and smiled big! I haven't been able to get her to do it again, but I'm convinced she thought it was funny.

Its also awesome to watch how strong she is getting, not particularly when she is pulling my hair but when she is pushing off her legs and pushing up her weight. She will do it several times until she is tired and just falls down like a ball of jelly.

Its great to see how much she is changing and becoming aware of things around her and herself. Not so great that its going by so fast haha.

Big Girl Bath

Emelia is just about a month an half, i think she is almost 8 lbs now from my bathroom scale calculations. I would say 20 inches too by now. She has a doctor appointment next week so we will get the official results. I put her in her first 0-3 month outfit today, which is a little loose compared to the newborn clothes that fit her perfectly right now. She is starting to get a little meat roll o her little legs too which is adorable.

She is much more alert and spends more time awake, which is good when its not during the night haha. Her sleeping pattern is starting to take form now, usually she goes to bed for good around 11 or midnight, wakes up between 3-4 and then not again until around 6. I hope the pattern continues and starts to spread out so there is more sleep time for us!

Sometimes you can catch her concentrating on things now that she sees and her eye contact is much more intense. She also kind of grabs for things in this panicked motion now. 

Last night, she took a big girl bath in the jacuzzi tub. So cute to see her kicking and floating around in the water. She seemed to really enjoy it more then the silly plastic baby tub haha. It was almost like she was ready to put her hands behind her head, kick back and drink a pinacolada haha.

We also decided to buy a 2011 Subaru Forester, the loaded model, yesterday. So now Emmy is responsible for my soccer mom status, even though the car is still pretty sweet and much cooler then any wagon or minivan haha. Not that there is anything wrong with those vehicles ;)

First Mother's Day

I had a great first mothers day weekend. It kicked off with a bang when my brother-in-law handed me my first gift, the new mortal combat video game for xbox haha. Now to most of you this might sound like the furthest thing from a thoughful gift for a new mom. WRONG. #1 I loved playing mortal combat as a kid, #2 Michael LISTENED and realized how many fun memories I had playing it #3 What better way to relieve new mom stress and anxiety then by smashing the brains out of a super human, 4 armed giant wearing a thong.  Don't worry for all you traditionalists, I got many feminine gifts too. Some really pretty jewelry, dining out moneys, clothes, and my favorite a weeping blue atlas tree to plant. I think I came up with a pretty sweet idea to get something that grows each year so I can look back and remember it every time I look outside. I can't wait to get it planted, but like an idiot, I am over doing it. Instead of just planting it in the spot I planned, I first felt the need to build a second level in the flower bed and find all the rocks for it BY HAND in the stone row by our house. I am only half way done with this endeavor, and we all know how much free time I have now to be playing DIY guru extraordinaire.

Back to Mothers day, Mark went to get me some awesome coffee and a muffin for breakfast. Then i spent the first half hanging out with my family and kicking buttocks at croquet then the second with Mark's enjoying some good dinner. It was a really nice day, too bad my daughter slept through most of it haha.

Currently, Emelia is sleeping in her boppy pillow on our bed. We found out that she really likes to sleep inside the u-shape, so we have been carefully moving her around the house in it haha. She also had her first blow out today and soiled her crib sheet. I attribute this to her monster appetite, can't wait to see how much she has officially grown at her next check up.

One Month

I'm pretty sure Emmy is going for a record today on her one month birthday! She has been awake with the exception of about 20 mins since 9:30 this morning and its 1:15pm now. Obviously, her old age has bestowed some daytime energy on her. I hope this means that she plans on sleeping longer intervals tonight! It seems like she has turned into a hearty baby overnight from the skinny, little month early infant she was.

The other night, I noticed for the first time that she was intentially staring at me. Not just catching a glance, she was concentrating on my face. Eye contact feels so much better when you know its real haha.

She is moving around a lot more and much more vocal. She is very opinionated when it comes letting me know she still doesn't like being bathed, lotioned or having her diaper changed. There is also an extreme amount of grunting, growling and baby talking during the night even while shes dead asleep. Which brings me to my next announcement, SHE IS OFFICIALLY IN HER CRIB! She is such a noisy night-timer that it left me, her over-protective, hawk-eye mother, no choice but to move her loud butt into the nursery. It is working out better for all of us, we aren't waking each other up on our turns for changing and feeding in our room anymore. I think she prefers the crib mattress to all her other sleeping areas, and I don't wake up to every little noise she makes. I use the video monitor, which I recommend Summer Infant Sleek and Secure Handheld Color Video Monitor, its a little pricey but worth it. Its just like having her in the room with me except I can turn her down. There is night vision on the monitor too so I can still see if she spits up or loses a binky easily.

Currently, she is downstairs enjoying a visit from her cousin Livia, they have been working on tummy time together, getting their hands licked by my dogs, and cuddling in a swing. Emmy also congratulates her other cousins Shannon & Justin on their new addition, Damon who was born yesterday. If you want a baby, come drink the water at the DeLos, its contagious! 

I am celebrating my first mothers's day this weekend too! I already got my first gift, but I will leave all those details to the official first mothers day post which will come tomorrow night. 

Emelia Loved Kate's Dress

 

Emelia is now 3 weeks and 6 days old and at the rate she is going she will be graduating kindergarten next week. On Sunday, her due date of 5/8, she is supposed to officially enter the world and I can't believe all the things she is doing in the time that she hasn't even supposed to have been here. Not to mention she is lucky enough to be here for Prince William & Kate Middleton's wedding and the catching of Osama! Granted, I don't think she is intentionally doing these things; rolling over, grabbing her bottle, placing her pacifier in her mouth and scooting around, but its pretty impressive haha. She is turning into an eating machine as well, she drinks anywhere from 50-125 mls at a time which is almost double from what she has been drinking from a week or two ago.

She has been doing better with the baths, since her belly button thingy fell off and she is able to actually get in the water. We also took her for a visit to The Morning Call to see the crew which she told me she enjoyed haha. Other then that, most of her time is still occupied by sleeping. Speaking of sleeping, last night was her first official night sleeping in the crib, she did great!

3 Weeks Have Passed

Video of Emmy getting burped, Mark and I think she looks like she is impersonating Stevie Wonder the way she whips her head back and forth or a shark.

I honestly do not know where the time is going already. Part of me feels like we just came home yesterday with Emelia and the other feels like she has been here with us forever. I can't believe she is over 3 weeks old already. I also can't believe we have survived three weeks so far! hahaha

She gets up between 3-4 times a night, sometimes for as long as an hour to eat. No screaming fits so that is a plus. Still sleeps through most of the day, though she is having longer and long periods of time that she is awake which is nice. Her hair is growing and we still can't pinpoint a color. I think light brownish. Her eyes are still blue, though sometimes they look green. I'm hoping for green so I can say she has my eyes haha.

Right now, Emmy is swinging in her newest swing I just put together. I think she enjoys it because its smaller then the other one and she is more cradled in it. Later today I will be sucking some more boogers out of her tiny little nose and she will probably go to lunch with Mandy, Mark and I.