3 months 11/9/11

Natalie turned 3 months this past week.  I can't believe that the time has flown by soooo fast.  It has been a whirlwind.  She is smiling so much now.  I know I am jinxing myself by saying this but she doesn't cry as much as she used to which is really nice.  She is sleeping a bit more at night.  In fact the last two nights we have gotten a total of 15 hours of sleep together.  Yahoo!!!  Keep it up Ms. Natalie.  She has been doing really well at daycare.  This past week, Shannon (daycare provider) noticed she was holding herself up really well and decided to put her in her exersaucer.  She loved it.  Mostly because the boys at the daycare are right at her level so that she can see them better. 

She has also been going crazy on the floor mat that she has.  We have one as well that we put her under a lot.  She has been batting at things and really checking stuff out.  She has started to notice that her hands might be attached to her body.  She was checking out my hand today while I was opening and closing and she was touching it.  She also is starting to grip things.  Not quite to the point where she grabs on to things herself but if you put something in her hand she will hold it for a while.  Don't think she knows she is doing it though. 

This is a photo from daycare.  I don't think it is recent but this is her favorite chair at daycare.

The next few photos are from times spent with Dad on Fridays.  I know the one below is like violating everything baby related but we were in the room obviously since we took the picture.  She just loves to sleep with those arms up as far as possible. This is a blanket made by Maw Maw (Natalie's great grandmother.)

Love this photo.  She is just soooo cute!!!

Thankfully she is not really into the pacifier anymore.  She likes her fist or the ears on the bears.

Playing some disc golf with dad.  Her favorite thing to do. 

My parents came up to visit this past Saturday.  They needed their grandparent fix.  We still have to get them hooked up with Skype so they can see her more often.  We went to the Dover High School craft fair and another one at a local church.  We got this hat/scarf set for her. It is a little big but it was cheap and really pretty.  She just looked so adorable when we put them on her.  Those little wispies were getting in her eyes but I think she liked it. 

This is a hat I bought myself.  I thought since we were embarrasing her with her hat we might as well put mine on her.   Can't wait until she is older, like with her first BF, and we can bring these pics out to show him.   See how adorable my baby was when she was little.

It sticks up a little much on the head.  When she gets a little bigger it should fit well.

Sunday we went up to visit the other grandparents.  Great Aunt Ruthie and 1st cousin once removed Amanda were up to visit.  We had to look that one up.  Ruthie is Grandma Jean's sister.  They hadn't seen Natalie yet, so we had to go visit.  Ms. Natalie was not very cooperative with her mommy that day.  She nursed at 6:30 and a little bit at about 8:45 and then didn't eat again until 4 that day.  She didn't really sleep much either during that time.  Not sure if daylight savings time ending had anything to do it.  Maybe it was a growth spurt.  Who nows, but both Natalie and mom were not very happy.  Every time I tried to nurse her she would start melting down.  Once she was back with everyone she was fine.  It was a long day for both of us but we made it and she was fine the rest of the week.

bad lighting with my phone.  Notice she is holding on to a lego that her cuz gave her. 
She is gripping things like a champ.

Here are her 3 month photos.  This is the best smile we could get out of her.  We keep doing these photo shoots when she is just about to go to bed, so it is sometimes harder to get a smile.  But we got little ones.

This is her with the teddy bear given to us by the Mackey family.  She is finally bigger than it.  It will be cool to see how she grows next to it. 

The blog just wouldn't be complete without Big Bro Rocky in it. He is doing well as you can see.  Sleeping up a storm. 

The rest of us are doing well.  Chris went up to the disc golf course in Maine on Friday to retreive some more discs out of their ponds.  He has been doing this about every other month since March and has found 3000+ discs.  They have given back a big chunk of them which is really cool.  
Chris also bought a new gift for himself.  The iphone has an app called Woot Watch which has some cheap deals.  One of them was a Starwars lunch box.  It also came with sandwich cutters that were shaped like the Millenium Falcon and the Ti(sp?) Fighter.  Here are the pics.

This is the Millenium Falcon sandwich.

He got made fun of at work for this, but he said it was worth it.

   Hope all are well.  Can't believe Thanksgiving is around the corner.  We will be up in Westmoreland area for the weekend so hopefully we can catch up with some folks.