Week 12 was a calm, relaxing week for Elena, which was much needed after the craziness of Thanksgiving, and before the craziness of Christmas! So we did a lot of hanging out around the house, doing our favorite things. We did put up the Christmas tree, which she has just been staring at. She loves the lights! It's great, because I can lay her on a blanket underneath the edge of the tree and she just lays there and stares. She also really likes the bell we have as an ornament. She loves the sound. Elena is growing by leaps and bounds... she seems like she's just huge, and she is smiling and talking more and more. She is also awake more and more, which is nice. Unfortunately, to grow and be awake, she's needed more to eat lately, so I am running dangerously low on milk! I don't really want to start giving her formula, but I don't know if I can make enough to keep up with her! So we'll just have to see... if I can make it to Christmas break, I can nurse her all the time and increase my milk supply. Elena's other new trick is yakking ALL THE TIME! Just today she has gone through four outfits for her (and the one she's wearing now has been yakked on, so I guess 5) and two outfits for me (and the one I'm wearing has been yakked on already as well). I don't know what's causing all this, but I guess it's from eating so much. Her really COOL trick from this week is that she has started sleeping through the night AND putting herself to sleep. We usually put her down at 10:00, and she sleeps until I wake her up at 6:30 or so. AND, when I put her to bed she doesn't have to be asleep anymore, if she's all swaddled and ready for bed, she'll just fall asleep on her own. Needless to say, those two things are AWESOME, and have seriously increased my energy level! I never knew getting 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep would be so wonderful!
Anyway, I can't believe my baby is almost 3 months old! Here are some of my favorite pictures of us doing nothing this week!
In honor of MU being in the Big 12 Championship, we bought Elena an MU onesie... here she is in it before we went to the choir Christmas party to watch the game.
Unfortunately, Elena decided to poop on her onesie, so she didn't get to wear it to the party.
Laying on the floor, lookin' at the Christmas tree.
My heart melts every time she smiles... I never get tired of it!
Still trying to suck on that thumb... she's also started sucking on her bottom lip, which makes her look like a little old man who doesn't have his dentures in. It's pretty cute! :)
Hanging out in the bouncy seat... always a favorite activity. I love that this binky covers up half of her face... clearly not a "0-3 months" binky!
Even babies like napping in the green chair!
Wearing another new onesie... I've discovered that, while she started with all "I love Mommy" stuff, now she has all "I love Daddy" stuff, and no mommy stuff left. :(
We took pictures for our Christmas card this week, too. She looked adorable, and I was trying to get a picture of her all by herself, but she is such a blur in most of them that I didn't get a great one... I got one good enough for the cards, though. This one turned out to be one of my favorites. I love how she is looking right at the camera.
But she got tired of taking pictures, so we had to stop! :)
Another great week for Miss Elena... next week she'll turn 3 months old!! Hard to believe...
Unfortunately, Elena decided to poop on her onesie, so she didn't get to wear it to the party.
Laying on the floor, lookin' at the Christmas tree.
My heart melts every time she smiles... I never get tired of it!
Still trying to suck on that thumb... she's also started sucking on her bottom lip, which makes her look like a little old man who doesn't have his dentures in. It's pretty cute! :)
Hanging out in the bouncy seat... always a favorite activity. I love that this binky covers up half of her face... clearly not a "0-3 months" binky!
Even babies like napping in the green chair!
Wearing another new onesie... I've discovered that, while she started with all "I love Mommy" stuff, now she has all "I love Daddy" stuff, and no mommy stuff left. :(
We took pictures for our Christmas card this week, too. She looked adorable, and I was trying to get a picture of her all by herself, but she is such a blur in most of them that I didn't get a great one... I got one good enough for the cards, though. This one turned out to be one of my favorites. I love how she is looking right at the camera. 
4 comments:
I can't believe what a big girl she is. And I laughed outloud at the humongous binky picture :)
Whoo hoo! 8 hours of sleep! You must be a new woman. That is SO amazing when they start sleeping through the night. I remember at 6 hours I was so happy, and thought "I dont care if she ever goes longer than this, its so much better than 2-3!" Then she went 8, and I started getting greedy :) Now she goes b/t 10-12. Its great. I hardly remember what it was like with her getting up all night. She is so beautiful Liz! I love reading about how much fun you all are having with her. Email me with your address if you will, I want to send you a christmas pic. MUAH!
She is just beautiful!!!! I can't believe how big she is getting. My how fast the time goes. We've been trying to get a good Christmas card pic, too, but it can be hard if you don't time it just right!!
Merry Christmas!!!!
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april
Liz,
B complex vitamins 2 per day will also help boost your milk supply. And I am sure that is why the "milk monster" is yakking...she is probably just eating too much. Silly baby. Isn't she the cutest thing?
Yaya
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