Lydia: 2-3 Months

At three months old, Lydia is still a sweet and happy baby. Our pediatrician doesn't do a three month appointment, and we don't own a scale, so i'm not sure how much she weighs - but I do know that she is growing like crazy. I wish I could say that I was developing killer arm muscles - but unfortunately, all that is happening is that carrying her carseat up the stairs leaves me huffing and puffing. Someday maybe this baby-carrying thing will lead me to mad upper body strength... but until then... alas.

3 Months - July 2012

Some things that I want to remember about Lydia's third month (third month being the month of July 2012) are as follows:

--Lydia has stopped liking her pacifier. If you give it to her when she is happy, she gets grumpy. If you give it to her when she is grumpy, she gets mad. I think the change happened when she discovered her tongue. She plays with her tongue, licks her fingers, and pushes the pacifier around with her tongue instead of sucking on it. 

--She still hates tummy time. 

--We just started sleep training her. After almost three months of letting her sleep in a co-sleeper in our bed, we are transitioning her into her own bed in her own room. She is already doing so much better at sleeping in her bed and taking regular naps. 

--I took some pictures of her in her blessing dress because I didn't get many at her actual blessing, and because she was a little bit bigger and filled out the dress a little better. They turned out so cute!

--We went on our very first, sans-baby date night! Lydia was a champ, and stayed with Wendy and Amy and watched the Opening Ceremonies for the London 2012 Olympics. I was really worried about her being gone for so long (we went to a play at the Hale Center Theater) so earlier that day I had tried to pump so that I could leave her a bottle. It was pretty much a disaster - so I ended up leaving her a sample bottle of formula (one that we had gotten in the mail), just in case. I'm so glad that I did because we were gone for just a little too long and she got hungry. 

--Lydias bright blue eyes are turning a beautiful blue-gray. Who knows if they will stay that way - but they are almost exactly the same shade of blue as her dads. 

--She is still wearing size one diapers.

--Loves her Mom.  This may sound silly- but I really really love that she loves me. Of course she loves her dad, but sometimes all she wants is to be held by me. I am trying to soak that up, even when I am exhausted - because I know that soon Daddy will be the favorite and special one. But at least for now, she really really loves me. 

--We went to the splash pad in Morgan while I was up visiting family. She was still too little to do much, but she looks so darn cute in her little swimming suit!

-Her hand-eye coordination has gotten much better. She used to just look at her little hanging toys -but now she can swat at them with her arms. No grabbing yet, not really. But it's really really fun to see her start to focus on things better. We were at my parents house and for the first time you could see that she was watching the spinning mobile. 

-She still smiles really big, but has stopped "talking" as much as she was when she first figured it out. Sometimes it's like she forgot how to make the noises. You can tell she is trying, but she just can't get them out. She "talks" to my mom more than any other person though. Something about her Grandma Walker just gets her all fired up. It's so cute to watch. 

Thats all for right now. But here are some pictures of our darling girl:

We absolutely adore this girl!