We are three months and one week into this and Stella is still breathing, crying and growing. She also smiles, poops, sleeps, eats, hiccups and in another couple of weeks I think we will get her first laugh/giggle.
We are currently sleep training and having a little success each night. Little is the key word.
But on average she is going to bed around 7. Sleeping until 3. Eating for 20 minutes. And then back to sleep until 6:30 or 7. Napping twice a day for about 2 hours each time. Of course there are days when non of this happens. But I like to focus on the days that they do happen.
I am still successfully nursing. She is up to about 4-5 oz at each feeding and eats about every 3-4 hours, except for that lovely 7pm-3am spurt! My nursing goal is to make it to 6 months and then reevaluate.
The hubster and I's favorite time with Stella is in the mornings. She is quite a fun little gal after a good nights sleep. We enjoy our morning family time, when we hang out over Stella's crib and tickle and blow raspberries, and make funny noises, as Stella just stares at us. Sometimes only staring, and sometimes smiling and talking right back to us.
Some of Stella's favorite things currently....
Staring contests with her big sis Lucy...
Going to daycare on Tuesday's and Wednesday's so I can go to my internship. This was her first day, or as I called it her first day of school picture....
Smiling. This was her first one. Captured in Fort Wayne with the help of Nana.....
Hanging out with mom......
And last but not least of Stella's favorite things.
Just being beautiful....
I may be tired, never get my good skin back, and be overwhelmed 65% of the time... but I would not change it for the world and STILL look at Stella and shake my head some mornings in disbelief that the hubster and I made her. What a concept. And what a blessing!!!
