Molly Month 3

Oh our little cutie patootie, this month has been a BIG change for us and a huge step forward!! You are becoming so much easier and seem to be a happier bug! I think you are finally becoming acclimated to the "outside world" and now that you can interact more in your surroundings you are having a better time. You are so alert and mommy gets comments about that all the time. Brother seems to be getting more used to you and I can sometimes catch him trying to give you toys to play with you, it is so sweet but you are totally unaware of course :)

~ You are moving on up to 3 months clothes but you can still wear 0-3 months as well. Size 1 diapers still fit but I'm honestly not sure for how much longer. Also, we have started using our cloth diapers this month and we sure are having some kinks with it. I simply think you are just too little which is why they keep leaking out the legs but we will continue on!

~ You are consistently drinking 6oz bottles every 3 hours, never more then 3 unless it is night and sometimes less then 3.

~Your eyes are still a blue/gray color and some days they look darker then others.

~ You have been sleeping through the night since roughly 9-10weeks old!!! We started laying you down around 10 and you would wake up around 6:30-7. Towards the end of the month we try to have you in bed around 8:30 and you sleep until 6. We were also encouraged to let you self-sooth at the 2 month Dr. Appt and although it was hard it was nice knowing we could do it if you wouldn't go to sleep in our arms. This self-soothing thing though meant that it was time to move you to your own room. This way at least daddy could catch some sleep while you were trying to fall asleep and we didn't have to be uber quiet. Also, you are super noisy in your sleep! Actually, I think we may have been waking you up too because when we moved you out was when you started sleeping through the night!

~Halfway through the month you went from me trying to get you to smile as much as possible with no response, to the next day grinning at me like crazy and it was as if a flip switched. Now you smile!!

~ You have only laughed a couple times. Once for me when I was blowing on your tummy and it was the sweetest thing ever! You also did for daddy while he was making faces at you : )

~ You are such a cat napper!!! This month you started sleeping for only 20-30 minutes in our arms and by the time night came around you would be incredibly over tired! Around week 11 I discovered that if I swaddle you twice a day for a "big nap" you will sleep from 1 1/2-3 hours. One of them is in the morning, and the other is when brother sleeps which is fantastic because mommy gets a wee bit of alone time!

~ A birth mark appeared this month! It is a light brown color right above your little booty : )