Three months old
It feels like just yesterday I was posting her two month update ;). I can't believe this girls is three months old already! She is so much fun. She just gets cuter and more fun every day and I can't believe how fast she is learning and growing! So far her eyes are still blue and her hair is getting longer, thicker, and lighter.
She still eats like a champ, every 3-4 hours, 4-5 times per day. Her nights are fantastic! She goes to bed between 7:30 and 8:30 every night and sleeps until 7! LOVE that! She is learning to put herself to sleep in her bed, which is going pretty well. We read a story, swaddle her, rock her while singing a song or two until she gets drowsy and then put her in her bed awake and she can *usually* put herself to sleep. She likes her pacifier sometimes, and sometimes she doesn't so we try to use it as a last resort. Naps are a little different story. She usually takes a good nap in her bed in the morning from about 8:30 to 10:30 or 11 and then she can only stay awake for about 1.5-2 hours at a time all day. The rest of her naps are usually pretty short, between 30 and 60 minutes. It's been tricky because she loves to fall asleep in the car but once the car engine turns off, or sometimes just stops moving, she wakes up. Trying to keep her asleep so she gets a good nap has not been good for our gas mileage. Once she wakes up from falling asleep at all, whether it was for 5 minutes or 50 minutes, she will be awake for 1.5-2 hours until her next nap. We have tried to transfer her to her stroller, her bed, our bed, the bjorn, the swing, but to no avail.
Greta has learned so much this month! She found her hands (so fun to watch) and has loved to use them ever since. She puts them in her mouth constantly. She also grasps objects! It's so fun to see her grabbing her toys on her activity mat and bouncy chair instead of just looking at them and talking to them. She also learned to imitate some sounds that I make. Our conversations are a lot of fun.
She is the happiest baby, super smiley all the time! She is always in a good mood and so far lets anyone hold her and is pretty generous with the smiles (even though mom and dad get the most). She mostly smiles in response to other people smiling or mom being silly. She is also the wiggliest wiggle monster. She is constantly moving. Sometimes the only time we can tell that she is sleeping is because she isn't wiggling. Although, she even wiggles when she sleeps because the other night she wiggled herself all the way to the edge of her crib and smashed her face into the bars! Luckily, I saw that before we went to bed so I was able to move her.
New likes:
Minutes 5-10 of tummy time
Putting her hands in her mouth
Grabbing things
Pulling her sucker out of her mouth
Mom's patterned shirts - especially polka dots
Bumbo seat
New dislikes:
Sleeping when there are new things to look at
Trying to go to suck on a sucker when she keeps pulling it out of her mouth
Getting swaddled (but she likes to sleep swaddled)
Her current nicknames are baby, baby head, baby girl, lady girl, girlie, Greta girl, and silly goose. Although we mainly just call her baby girl (still), which is what we have called her ever since week 20 of pregnancy.
