Happy 3 Months Calina!

I am in complete denial that this sweet baby is 3 months old already.

Calina is such a good baby. She has her "bad" moments (usually only when Mommy has eaten something she shouldn't have), but I don't think I've ever met a more mellow baby for the most part.  She needs to be mellow to survive her big sister.  Fiona loves her a little roughly and lately has started to try and pick her up. 

Calina gets more personality every day and her smiles just make my heart melt.  She smiles, giggles, and coos all the time.  We joke that we think she talks more than her older sister already.

At her 2 month check up she weighed 10 pounds 8 ounces (35th percentile) and was 23.5 inches long (85th percentile).  She's grown even more in the last month.  Callie is a tall skinny girl.  I have feeling she might pass her sister up very quickly.  She is definitely shaped more like Daddy.  I think she looks more like Nathan than me.

Calina is also quite the mover.  She has rolled herself over several times now and is no longer safe to leave up on any surface.

I have a champion sleeper on my hands.  She puts herself to sleep. She sleeps through the night. She takes awesome naps (I hope I'm not jinxing myself). 

I love watching Callie grow, but am sad that my baby gets bigger every day.

And one last picture with her Aunt Maggie before she left for college.  I love this picture :)

Another Month

I can't believe that it has been another month already. Fiona was 3 months old on Saturday. It as flown by. She is getting so big. I weighed her on our scale at home and she was right about 11 pounds. She has officially outgrown all of her newborn clothes and is even in some 3-6 month clothes. Thanks to some hand-me-downs and some generous gifts, we are not in any danger of running out of clothes in the near future. She will be a well dressed baby for the next couple of months.

It has been a crazy month, but so much fun. Fiona now sleeps about 5-6 hours a night and takes some pretty good naps during the day. Sleep has been wonderful! We had a bad night the other day and I couldn't believe that I used to survive on that little sleep. Fiona is cooing and babbling up a storm now. She is very talkative in the morning when we wish she would sleep a little longer, but it is way too cute to be annoyed. I have tried to capture this with the video camera, but everytime I get it out she immediately clams up. She is getting much more fun to play with now and she is starting to get interested in her toys.

She had a couple of weeks where she screamed everytime that I left the room, even if Nathan was holding her. She liked her daddy, but only when mommy was holding her or sitting right next to her. Thankfully, she has gotten over that recently. It was really hard on her daddy (and her mommy, who didn't get to shower much). Yesterday, I went into work for a couple of hours and she was a happy baby the whole time she was home with her daddy. That night she even wanted to be held by her daddy instead of mommy (sniff, sniff ... I have secretly liked that she was a mommy's girl, not the screaming for daddy part, but the wanting to snuggle with mommy part). She gets happier every day and it is amazing to watch her grow and learn new things. I love all the new things she is learning and doing, but part of me doesn't want her to grow out of the little baby stage.

We joined a mommy group here in town and have been to several playdates. It has been a lot of fun and we have met some great mommies and babies. The other day we had a playdate for babies only (most of the time there are bigger kids too). Well, truthfully it was more of a playdate for the mommies, but I think the babies had a good time too. It is really nice to get out of the house and talk to other grown-ups during the week. That has definitely been the hardest transition for me, so this group has been a blessing.

Okay, funny story that she will hate me for later in life. Fiona and I went to the afternoon mass on Ash Wednesday. It was mostly older people and it was absolutely silent in the church before mass. All of a sudden Fiona lets out the loudest fart I have ever heard in my life. Half the church turned around to look. I was sooooo embarrassed. I wanted to hide or at least yell out that it was the baby and not me. It will make a great blackmail story later in life.

And finally,here are a few pictures from the month:

She is definitely going to be a thumb sucker. Orthodontist here we come.


So wide-eyed


Big girl holding her head up.

Sleeping baby

(I know she's not supposed to sleep on her tummy, but tired mommies do what it takes to get the baby to nap)

Cute Valentine's Day outfit

First time out in the snow with mommy

Making baby snow angels

Out in the snow with daddy

What a cutie pie!

Smiling for the camera

Sleeping angel