Audrey - 3 months old

I tried to take a few pictures of Audrey today now that she is officially 3 months old! It was hard to get a good one since she loves to flail her arms and legs around, especially when she smiles or laughs:)

Audrey's hair is still pretty crazy even though it's grown out a bit.

Audrey likes the bouncy chair a lot more now. It's nice to have another place that she can entertain herself for at least a few minutes.

Audrey's legs are not so skinny anymore!

Yeah!

Audrey pooped out before we even got in the car to get a Christmas tree:)

This is the first sweater (and booties) I ever knit. Lily wore it a few times and I recently dug it out for Audrey to wear. I guess I should have gotten it out sooner because it's already a little snug!

Audrey has changed so much in just a month. She is a very smiley girl! She laughs too, but she isn't a bundle of giggles yet. She seems so much happier than when she was a newborn and I say that not because she can express it, but because there is less unreasonable crying/screaming than before. Thank goodness!

We have had some rough times with sleep since she tended to cat nap during the day and then thought the night was over at 3:30-4:00am. That was tough on both of us. So, about a week or two ago I switched her bedtime to closer to 10:30 instead of 8:00 or so. The first night she slept almost 7 hours and then went down for another 45 minutes or so. It was wonderful! Twice she has slept through the night without getting up (from 11:00-7:00am and 11:00-8:15am). I felt like a new person after finally getting a little more sleep. Audrey also seems happier too. Since then, she usually gets up once at around 6:00-6:30am, but usually goes back down for at least a little while. Eventually I'll move her bedtime a little earlier as she hopefully sleeps longer at night (crossing my fingers!). I've also tried to regulate her naps a little bit. Going with the flow wasn't working for her since she wasn't getting good enough sleep during the day. So, I try to keep her up for as close to 2 hours at a time. She still is nowhere close to having a nap schedule, but it's getting better!

For close to 2 weeks, I've been having trouble nursing her sometimes. She just gets upset and I have to put her back on close to 15 times before she settles. I've checked her mouth several times for teeth, but I don't see anything yet. She's also drooling more. Lily got her first tooth at 4 and 1/2 months so I'm looking much earlier. You would think she would have this nursing thing down pat now. Hopefully this is just a phase.

Audrey has been doing some major growing this past month! I'm not sure how much she weighs, but she is wearing 3-6 or 6 month sized clothes and will be busting out the bottoms of those sleepers very soon. The nice thing is that we have plenty of warm 6, 9, and 12 month sized clothes from Lily, so even though they are 2 months apart in season, Audrey has pretty much caught up!