Elizabeth is three months old and an absolute total joy. I really and truly am loving this age and wishing time would slow down. Here are a few notes about Elizabeth at three months:
- She has forgotten how to roll over. After doing it for about a week she hasn't done it since. It is probably at least in part our fault since I could count the number of times we've put her down on her stomach in the last few weeks on one hand.
- She loves putting things in her mouth. No, loves isn't strong enough. This girl wants to chew on everything. It is like she is part dog. I really don't know how her hands aren't chapped given that they are constantly covered in slobber. It doesn't matter what sounds a toy makes or what it looks like. The only thing that matters is if she can get it into her mouth and what it feels like on her gums.
- She is such a smiley kid, especially when she first sees you. After a few minutes, the smiles are fewer and further between.
- She babbles a lot. Some days only a little bit here and there, but there are times when I swear she is having a whole conversation with me. There is such expression in her eyes as she babbles and babbles and babbles and so many different sounds and intonations! Given that there are days when Nicholas talks nonstop until my head is going to explode (I know, pot kettle), this should be interesting.
- She is still wearing mostly 3 month pants but basically 6 month in everything else. Apparently her legs are short, just like Nicholas' have always been.
- She has 0 flexibility. None. Apparently other babies put their feet in their mouths. My kids can't even see their feet as babies! This must come from Joe.
- She is doing much better with sleeping. When I look back at Nicholas or talk to other people with babies around the same age (or even younger!), it doesn't seem very good, but compared to even a few weeks ago this is heaven. She wakes up pretty reliably every 3 hours, but most nights her night is about 8:00-6:30 and she'll only eat on one side (so about 15 minutes) before going back to sleep and go back down without much fuss. She has nights when she fights going back down or won't go down well until 11, but these really have become the exception rather than the rule. And so as long as I'm able to get to bed at a reasonable hour, I get a descent amount of sleep. And at this point I get most of that sleep in bed lying down, which is a huge improvement! There are times I sleep a couple hours sitting up but those tend to be when I accidentally fall asleep while feeding her rather than times when she refuses to sleep on her own. She doesn't really need the bassinet anymore because I rarely need to rock her now, but I love the convenience of having her right next to the bed and getting her down at night is difficult enough without a loud big brother who insists on sleeping with the light on. If she had her own room we might move her to a crib at this point despite the inconvenience, but sharing a room is not happening quite yet.
- She seems completely unfazed by daycare, which is truly the best reaction for her age I think. She doesn't seem to think anything of it when I take her and hardly notices when I come to pick her up. She seems to behave almost identically whether she is there or here. She doesn't seem to care whether she gets a bottle or nurses and the few times she has had formula she has seemed nonplussed by that as well. So pretty go with the flow.
- She likes wearing dresses because she can grab at the hem and pull on it and of course try to stuff it in her mouth.
- She lost her routine. For a few weeks she reliably took a 3-hour nap about 10-1. It was sometimes shifted one way or the other by an hour, but pretty close. For the past couple weeks she has thrown all ideas of a routine out the window. She still usually takes one 3-hour nap and a few catnaps over the course of the day but one day her long nap is 9-12 and the next it is 1-4. This makes it impossible to plan around, which drives me a little crazy, but as long as she takes one long nap I can make do.
And a few pictures:
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