Little Miss Camilla is 3 months old! Check out the growth...
one-week old:
You can tell she's taller...and sitting up much better. We had to go up to the 3-6 mos. size onesie, but there is plenty of room to grow in it. Check out that leg chubb!
Dear Camilla,
You have been such a joy to be around this month. You're such a happy baby and smile a lot; you smile at us and in response to our smiles...but the biggest winner is still the ceiling fan. The mornings tend to be your favorite time of day. After your morning feeding, you are so content to simply lay on a quilt and look at the fan or stare at the octopus above you on your playmat; you're pretty good at entertaining yourself these days. The mornings are also your most talkative time; I love to hear you cooing and making all sorts of sounds to whoever will listen: yourself, the fan, the octopus or big blue whale on your playmat, and especially to us. We can have an actual conversation with you during your diaper changes. And just this past week, you've started squealing and making sounds that are sort of a cough-laugh (i think this is a prelude to a laugh). I expect you to start full-on laughing any day now.
You still hate the car seat, so taking you anywhere in the car takes some planning. I have to time it where you will be sleepy and can fall asleep quickly after the car starts moving. The same goes for our morning walks. But it isn't hard to plan since I've had really good luck this month with the E.A.S.Y. plan (eat, activity, sleep, you). We can always pretty much get the E.A.S. part but only sometimes Y. You eat every 2-3 hours for about 15 minutes. Then you are awake for approx. a half hour where we have some sort of activity: playmat or quilt time downstairs, diaper changes, crib time to look at the rainforest mobile, swingtime, tummy time (which you absolutely hate), walking around the neighborhood or out in the backyard, reading books or listening to Raffi music. I've learned to spot the signs that you are done with playtime (whining and irritability) and would like to move on to naptime. Now that I've figured this out, it is so easy to pick you up, plop you in the crook of my arm with your pacifier in, and voila!, your eyelids usually close within a minute. That's the simple part...putting you down is a whole other story. You would be content to spend your entire nap in my arms in the rocking chair, if I'd let you...and I do several times a day. But I'd still like to get to the "Y" part of the E.A.S.Y. plan some of the time so that I can get some stuff done around the house or use my computer or fix dinner or whatever else requires two hands. I've had better luck these past few days with putting you down in the pack-n-play for naps, but you'll only nap for about 30 minutes in that bed. When I feel like you need a longer nap, I usually let you just sleep in my arms. I know you won't be this small and snuggable for very long, so I'm pretty happy to rock you as much as I can.
As I said above, you hate tummy time, so you may never crawl. I still make you try it at least once a day, but here's what you look like after a few seconds and then you go into a real cry. It's sad, so I don't make you stay on your tummy very long.
You don't have a pediatrician appointment this month, so we won't technically know how much you've grown this past month...but I can tell you've at least grown taller and maybe put on a few more rolls. You've seemed extra juicy here lately with all sorts of rolls and fat cheeks we like to squeeze and pinch.
We've had to retire almost all of your 0-3 mos. size clothes and pj's, mostly because they are too short. Since the summer weather is leaving us, I've been trying to snap more pics of your cute summer dresses. This precious one is from Nana.
This past month has just been so fun and enjoyable. I finally feel like I'm figuring out her schedule and what her signals mean. I'm actually able to run errands and leave the house without too much anxiety. John and I have been able to feel like things are getting back to normal by going out to eat more and enjoying a glass of wine on the back deck some nights. It has just all seemed easier this month. Should I knock on wood?! I know things will never go back to the way our lives were before we had Millie, but I think we both recognize that things have changed for the better. She is such a little blessing...
Oh, Millie Bear, we're so glad you're ours...
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