You’ve Discovered Your Hands

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You’ve discovered your hands!  Almost overnight you realized that you had control of your hands.  You are starting to reach for your toys and touch the things around you.  It’s really amazing to see you starting to connect the dots.  This is just the beginning of the many things you have yet to learn!

We had your first at home babysitting experience last week.  Your father and I went to the Dallas Cowboys pre-season game.  It was history in the making because it was the first game at the new stadium!  Miss Tina and her son Ricky came over to watch you.  She did a most excellent job…it’s clear she loves like her own!  And I was so proud of myself, I didn’t even call to check in on you!


3 Month Birthday

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Well, we survived your first week of daycare!  The Sunday before was hard, knowing that the next day everything was about to change forever.  I started crying the minute we walked into the building Monday morning.  We hung out with the infant room ladies for about 20 minutes while we got you settled in.  Then it was time to say good-bye.  I got pretty emotional then, but made it out to the lobby and re-grouped while we finalized our paperwork.  When it was time to leave, I told your dad I wanted to go say one last good-bye to you.  He strongly encouraged me to just go ahead and leave…no need to keep torturing myself.  🙂  I cried for a few minutes when I got in the car, then realized that was doing no one any good so I got it together and headed to work. 

The rest of the week went really well.  Work has been very busy and hectic so my days have flown by.  But I get pretty excited when I realize it’s almost quittin’ time and that it won’t be long before I get to see you! 

You are getting to be such a big girl!  You love to talk, of course we talk to you a lot so I don’t think you have much choice but to respond.  You are very curious and love to look around at all the different colors and shapes no matter where we are.  The daycare ladies were talking about how nosey you are.  Funny, that’s the same thing the NICU ladies said about you! 

You weighed in at 12.6 pounds today.  You are rapidly outgrowing your clothes and are in the 3-6 month size now.  It’s absolutely crazy to me that you are already 3 months old – it seems like just yesterday we were checking into the hospital! 

Luckily you are a big fan of sleep!  You have been going to bed between 9pm and 10pm and waking up anywhere from 4:30am – 7:30am!  Not too bad!  Last night you went to bed around 10pm and I had to finish waking you up to feed around 6am!  You love to sleep on your side, and seem to prefer your left side.  You need ample time to wake up & you love to grunt and stretch when you are trying to come around.  Exactly like your Daddy!