Alison has made it. She is officially 3 months old. Why is this such a huge milestone? Because now we don’t have to take her to the emergency room unless her temp gets to 105! Let’s pray that doesn’t happen…ever.
Ali is officially the happiest little girl I know. She is so smiley and chatty all the time. All you really have to do is look at her and she will flash one of her sweet open mouthed smiles your way. (Reed was such a stingy smiler. He made us work hard for every single one. And not much has changed :))
Ali is still struggling with her sleep. Some nights she does awesome and some night she is up a lot. On a good night she will sleep from 8 – 5, but all bets are off if it’s a bad night. I chalk her sleep problems up to a few things. 1. She can’t breathe. The poor child has been snotty since the day she was born. 2. We don’t have a consistent bed time routine. Reed was the lucky first born who had a consistent bed time routine and still does today. Poor Ali just has to go with the flow. We are going to start working on a routine though.
Ali is still 100% breast fed which makes me proud.
She rolled from front to back for the first time when she was 2 months and 2 weeks old. I thought it was a fluke so I never posted anything about it. Turns out it wasn’t a fluke. She does it all the time. I’m a bad mom and don’t make her do tummy time very often so I really don’t know if she can go from front to back. Guess we will ask day care about that one…
She is wearing size 1-2 diapers and has just moved up to size 3-6month clothes. At her doctor’s appt she weighed 12 pounds, 15 ounces.
I think my favorite thing about Ali and our family is how much her daddy loves her. Randy loves Reed and always has…but I can definitely see an extra bit of love for our little girl. Not only is she a girl, but she looks SO much like Randy. He is extra sweet to her and really loves on her. Makes me smile 🙂
Reed is also still in love with her. He always wants to “hug Ali” and “see Ali”. I love that. I know it will wear off once they have to start sharing, but for now it melts my heart every time. (Except when he gets mad and says ‘Ali down’ or when he squeezes her head. Yes, he has squeezed her head. Little punk!)
LOL about squeezing the head, that’s hilarious! Way to go rolling over Ali!! John did it once when he was 1 month and hasn’t done it again since. We’re really bad about the tummy time and bedtime routine too. I guess we have a routine, it’s just that he goes to bed in the swing at 8 or so which I feel I shouldn’t be doing and then I give him a dream feed at 9:30 or 10. I’ve found that he’ll sleep until 6 or so most of the time when I do this and I’m too selfish with my sleep to give it up!! I agree the breastfeeding makes me super proud too! When I came home from work the other day and bagged up all the milk I pumped I showed it to my mom and said it makes a mama proud!