A child fills a place in your heart that you never knew was empty

So Mily is 12 weeks and 3 days old now.  I am guessing she is about 9 1/2 pounds maybe.  She is getting to be such a big girl!  Last night she slept from 12 to 5:30 which was amazing!  She is getting into more of a routine with her sleep.  She takes about a 3 hour nap around lunch and then about a 2 hour nap about 4 or so.  She is able to hold her head up great, and if you stand her up she will stand there for a little while.  I got her one of those seats that has a lot of toys around it and she sits in it and just looks around.  She doesn't play with the toys yet.  She still loves her swing and the music that it plays she will sleep twice as long in it if the music is playing.  She is also becoming a big momma's girl and likes for me to hold her instead of other people.  She has still been having problems using the bathroom so her doctor told me to give her a bottle of watered down prune juice, and after a few days of giving her one a day she is doing a lot better.  And she absolutely loves the prune juice, I am pretty sure that is because it is sweeter than her milk/formula.  She is also smiling SO much more, if you talk happy towards her and smile she will smile right back its the cutest little toothless smile ever! We went and visited Camesha and Channing on Friday and it was so funny Channing who was a week old was bigger than Mily who was 12 weeks old.  And the whole time we were there they just slept, and ate and slept some more!  Oh and I am going to have to take the net out of her bathtub because she is getting to long for it!  She gets bigger everyday and learns something new everyday its amazing! And the bigger she get the more  cuddly she is becoming, I'll be holding her and she will rub my shoulder and wrap her arms around me and it is the best feeling ever.  So to sum everything up she is pretty much perfect :)

This is Mily's first piece of artwork, we used her feet to make a flower.

 

we don't like shots

So Mily is 11 weeks old and 3 days.  We went to the doctor today for the last 2 of her shots and she weighed 8lbs and 10 oz!  I chose to get her vaccines spread out so she body wouldn't be overwhelmed so 2 weeks ago she had one shot and one oral vaccine, and today she got 2 shots.  Friday Mily was constipated all day and anyone that saw her knew she wasn't feeling good.  Her doctor told me to mix prune juice with water and give her a bottle of it and also to put brown sugar in all her bottles, so I am going to go buy prune juice tomorrow.  Over the past few days Mily has started clicking her tongue, its so funny.  She is also laughing more and more, I love it when she laughs! Nothing super exciting has gone on this past week, so I guess that is all for now!

joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are

Mily turned 10 weeks on Saturday!  It is crazy how fast everything is going by.  We had a great weekend, some family from Tennessee came down to visit and just loved on Mily the whole time.  Mily is now able to lay on her belly and raise up her head and chest and some of her belly, she is so strong.  And she cam scoot! She can move all the way across my bed length wise in about 10 min.  And when I sit her on my lap she can hold her head up pretty much all of the time, sometimes she is just to tired to do it.  She is also laughing a lot more, which is adorable! She used to just do it when she was asleep but friday night she did it and was looking around the room.  Mily loves swinging in her swing while listening to classical music, which I hear will help her in school.  She is also fitting pretty good in newborn clothes now, they are super loose on her anymore and she is finally getting those cute chubby baby legs with the rolls! I got a baby carrier a few weeks ago but when I first got it Mily didn't meet the weight requirement to put her in it, but she does now and she LOVES it.  I'll put her in it and go pick up our room or go downstairs to get something, she likes looking around at everything.  I am not sure how I am going to be able to leave her while I go to school! Even though I only go 2 days a week for like 2 hours, but that will be the longest I have been without her within arms reach since she got home! 

Pretty dresses cute little curls ... thank heaven for little girls

Today, like the past 9 weeks has been the most amazing adventure ever.  Life with Mily is always exciting and you never know what that day is going to hold.  She had a tummy ache yesterday but she is all better now, thank goodness! She is going through a growth spurt so she sleeps all the time except when she is eating, and usually she falls asleep before she finishes eating.  When I hold her now she has started grabbing onto my shirt like she doesn't want me to put her down, and it is so cute that it works.  She slept pretty good last night, so hopefully it will keep getting better and better.  Last night she woke up and I made her bottle and she didn't want to eat so we just laid on the bed and she just talked and talked to me, it was so sweet.  I have started reading books to her and she will stare at them like she is actually understanding the story.  Mily and I might not have everything we want or be in the best situation, but we will always have each other an that is the most important thing.