Wednesday, May 09, 2007

No longer a newborn?

Cora is three months old today! She is about 11 pounds, 13 ounces and 23 inches long.
She is so alert, so much of the time. She has always been an alert baby, but now that she's awake more, it really shows. She seems to notice everything and follows things with her eyes and head.
She still loves her hands, and besides eating them, is practicing using them for other purposes. Yesterday she and I went to Starbucks in the morning (what else should a stay-at-home-mom do?) and she spit up enough to soak through the one burp cloth I had brought. (Bad mom! Should have known better, this kid can spit!) So I put several napkins under her chin. A few weeks ago, this would have worked just fine. But yesterday, she soon had both of her fists clenched around napkins. She likes to hold burp cloths and burp blankets, as well, and sometimes will bring them to her mouth.
She now has turned over from tummy to back several times while we've been doing tummy time.
And with her reaching three months old, Stace and I are having to suck it up and give up her bassinet. I know many parents don't like having their babies in their room, but we've really enjoyed it.
Last week we put her to bed each night in her crib, and it went very well. But we brought her back into our room for the last several nights.
She sleeps so well! She has been going down between 9:30 and 10, and I feed her around 8. She may awaken before 8, but she is happy and content, just looking around and apparently waiting for me to come and feed her. I am so, so blessed by her. The only thing is, and I'm not complaining!, I miss cuddling with her early inthe morning. When she was getting up about 6, I would feed her then in bed and we would go back to sleep together until a more reasonable hour. It was very sweet. Oh well...
As for these photos, I couldn't decide which one I liked better of her playing in her crib, so you, my dear readers, can enjoy them both. I think that in the top photo she looks like the Gerber baby. Granted, EVERY parent thinks their kid looks like the Gerber baby...
And the bottom photo is from one of our last nursing/cuddle sessions in Mommy and Daddy's bed.

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