Pretty baby 1…
Pretty baby 2…
Pretty baby 3…
How did I get so lucky?
3 months!
Guess who turned 3 months old yesterday?! This little bundle of love…
Oh, I love her so! She’s smiling and cooing and basically being the cutest baby on the planet every day. Here’s her brothers at 3 months…
She’s still definitely looking much more like Maxwell in my opinion!
Samantha is a fantastic daytime sleeper. I’m following the Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child book and only keep her up about an hour and a half. If I get her down within that window, she’ll just happily lay in her bed and go right to sleep! She takes a morning nap for about 2 to 21/2 hours, an afternoon nap for about 2 to 2/12 hours and then usually a little 3rd nap that is only around 30 to 45 minutes. A dream of a napper for sure!
Nighttime is still a different story that we’re working on. There is something about the first half of the night that she just doesn’t want to sleep in her crib. I’ve tried putting her to bed early. I’ve tried feeding her. I’ve tried rocking her for 2 hours. No matter what I do, as soon as she gets in that crib, she starts crying and won’t stop until I pick her up. As a result, the past few weeks she’s slept either on me in the rocking chair or the bed or in between Robert and me in the bed until she eats around 2:00am. After that feeding, I can put her in her crib with no problem and she’ll snooze away until around 7:00am. It’s a work in progress and I’ve actually enlisted some professional help…more on that later if it helps! But, I really don’t mind the sleeping issues because…well, look at this face…
I am 100% obsessed with this little girl. Even when she doesn’t want to do the monthly photoshoots…
and starts to get fussy…
I can easily calm her down with a little paci time….
and then…Boom. The best little smile ever!
With our friend, Honey Bunny!
She’s starting to stare at toys a little and kind of wonder how to play with them. Her head control is getting really good…but that big ole head still gets heavy sometimes!
She’s got the most kissable cheeks…
and the sweetest dimples…
and yes, oh yes, I’m pretty darn sure she’s got some red in that hair! 🙂
Happy 3 months Baby Mantha!
We love you so much!
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Baby updates and other things
A few updates on Samantha…
First time in the bumbo!
She likes it even if that big ole head gets pretty heavy and knocks her over to the side sometimes! 🙂
We also pulled out the play seat…
She’s not so sure about that sneaky turtle…
But I think she’s (sort of) liking it! ha!
Sleeping continues to be…a challenge.
She’s taking great naps during the day but night time is still not going as well. The best we can do is to keep her in the bed with us until her middle of the night feeding when I will then put her in her crib. Definitely not ideal but it’s what’s working for now. We’ll get there eventually!
Other news this week…
Lunch at the Mexaurant!
Baby Mantha takes a bottle like a champ!
Spencer is a cool dude!
Haircuts!
More drawing!
“This tiger wandered into this one’s territory so they’re fighting over who gets to be in charge.” 🙂
That’s all the updates for today. Have a great weekend!
Lovin’
Ya’ll…Samantha gets SO MUCH lovin’ from her big brothers….whether she likes it or not! 🙂
I love how Spencer has his hand stuck in her clothes and neither of them can keep their hands off her face. Sweet brothers.
It doesn’t get much better than that! Cheese!
High Low
Happy Monday! Our rainy, rainy weekend had some highs and lows…
High! Samantha took FANTASTIC naps in her crib! I worked so hard to only keep her up an hour and a half after she woke up and then get her swaddled and back in her crib before she got fussy. It worked like a dream and for every nap I just laid her in her bed and walked out and she went right to sleep with little or no fussing at all! Hooray! Naps were all around 2 hours too. She would even wake up here and there and fuss for just a few seconds and then go right back to sleep. Go Baby Mantha!
Low! Nighttime sleeping was as bad as the daytime sleeping was good. I don’t know what kicks in when the sun goes down but she will. not. sleep. at. night. I tried putting her to bed super early – she woke up crying 30 minutes later. We tried rocking and rocking and rocking until she’s dead asleep and then put her in the bed and she immediately starts crying. The only way she’ll sleep lately is if we’re holding her…and that is exhausting for all. Maybe it’s the congestion still? Maybe it’s colic? I don’t know but she’s GOT to start sleeping at night. Oh, baby girl.
High! Maxwell got go to the birthday party of his best bud, Max! and he got cake!
Low! He went with a double ear infection. Ugh. He told me Friday afternoon that his ear really hurt so we had him up to see Dr. Walley first thing Saturday and, sure enough, both ears were infected. Basically it’s leftover from his last ear infection 3 weeks ago – the fluid just never really cleared up and got infected again. He’s now on another antibiotic that’s pretty nasty. Poor buddy.
High! Robert and I got to go out Friday night! There was a 50th Anniversary celebration for the kid’s school and they had a party with silent auction to celebrate. We had a great time and even went out to dinner with a few couples after. It was really nice to have a good meal and some adult conversation.
Low! When we came home, Samantha was wide awake downstairs on the couch with the sitter, Ms. Alice. Yep – see note above about not sleeping at night! Ms. Alice had tried and tried to get her to go to sleep but finally just brought her downstairs to hold her. I can’t blame her because that’s exactly what I did for the rest of the night in my bed – just hold her.
High! I got Garth Brooks tickets for June for me and 4 friends! Woohoo! I’m not a big country music girl but Garth Brooks is different to me. I can’t wait! This was almost a low because, even though I was online right at 10:00, by the time Ticketmaster pulled up tickets, the 7:00 show for Saturday was sold out! I think both Friday and Saturday night shows sold out within 10 minutes. BUT, Garth immediately added a second Saturday night show for 10:30pm and I got tickets to that! That’s pretty late for us old ladies but we’re choosing to look at the bright side – now we can all go out to dinner beforehand! As Robert said, all these late nights up with Samantha have been preparing me for my night out with Garth! ha!
I’m gonna end this post on that high. Because really, even though there are always plenty of lows…the highs always win in the end! 🙂
See you tomorrow!