I kindof lost track of Janie’s age for a few weeks in there, but I can definitively say that she’s three months old today! In the past month, she’s mellowed out in the evenings and totally given up her paci in favor of her thumb. She’s a tummy time champ and prefers sleeping on her tummy, just like all her siblings. She has rolled front to back several times, but I’ve never actually seen it myself. If I just gaze at her while she’s nursing, she’ll start smiling and cooing at me. (If I try to multitask on the computer or reading to the kids, she tends to fall asleep.) She really does like being held and snuggled. Over vacation, I let everyone else hold her and realized she was growing up so fast and I just wanted to enjoy her littleness more. So I’m trying to force myself to just sit and hold her and look at her every day without feeling guilty for not getting other stuff done!
While she’s slept through the night a couple times, she’s more likely to go down around 8, get a dream feed at 10, and wake up again between 3 and 4. If I’m lucky, 5. In the past couple of weeks, she’s totally been refusing to take a bottle, so I’m working on forcing it by pumping first thing in the morning and not letting her nurse until she’s taken the bottle. That works, but it’s a royal pain. I just remind myself that a child who won’t take a bottle is more of a pain–I learned my lesson with Elizabeth!
And the big kids just adore her.
