3 month update, Christmas, & my last blog of the year!

My beautiful baby!! 

Height/Weight

24.25 inches (Birth- 20 inches) = 80^th percentile

16.5 inches (head circumference; Birth- 14 inches) = 75^th percentile

11 pounds (Birth- 7 pounds 12 oz) = 25^th percentile

Size:

Since she’s a bit taller, the 3-month clothes are being put away slowly and she is going into 3-6 months exclusively!

   

Love those lips!   

Favorites:

Food- BREASTMILK! No dairy or gluten!

Book- “Animals!”

12 weeks old :) We like to keep her fashionable!

Song- The POTATO song by Disney Junior! Potato Rock is actually her favorite! Watch this at your own risk! It’ll be stuck in your head FOREVER.

Toy- My boobs.

Non-toy toy- My boobs.

Time of day- she is happiest when her daddy gets home at 7p! She’s alert and ready to hang out with him.

TV show- Oh my..she’s obsessed. We have to shield her mat with pillows since we hang out in our living room.

Thing to giggle at- Ryan recently discovered that she loves when he blows air through his lips...I can’t really put it in words so here is the video:

Firsts/Milestones:

- She started noticing her hands a little over 8 weeks and every day since then, she becomes more and more comfortable with them...now she’s starting to suck on her hands! Eh!
-She can even hold her rattle and shake it a little!

She's pretty indifferent about tummy time actually. Now that she grabs and reaches for things, she really rather be playing with her toys!

- She started rolling from side to side at 10 weeks then rolled from her tummy to her back at 10.5 weeks!! What a little over achiever!

- Her “giggles” are beginning to become more apparent...they are little squeals now!

- She’s already starting at a young age but she is yelling at me! She is more than comfortable with being very vocal! We love it.

- I started speaking Lao to her in the morning in a very ambitious attempt to make her bilingual and she smiles every time. Maybe she knows my Lao is THAT bad haha

- We experienced the beautiful city of Chicago for the first time as a family....and we realized VERY quickly (with traffic especially) why we won’t be going there again any time soon! Haha But it was fun nonetheless!

- The separation anxiety has officially set in! She knows who she knows and definitely knows whom she doesn’t! As long as she sees our face, she usually is ok but sometimes that’s not enough!

- She is getting over her 2^nd time being sick. It makes us sad seeing her unhappy but she’s still nursing very often and clingy so we are taking advantage of it.

our life...

I realize that I have been MIA on this blog for quite some time now. Between working 15-25 hours a week from home, breastfeeding every 2-3 hours, mid-day naps (hehe), and witnessing all the little new things Estella discovers about herself and the world around her...my blog has unfortunately been kicked to the side a bit (all for good reason of course).

Ryan and I still look at each other in awe that we created this beautiful being that has now flipped our life upside down in a million ways. Yes things that we once thought were easy are now a task. For example, something as simple as eating dinner at the same time. Now it’s...”Who wants to eat first?”

We would both agree that our life together as a family of three is at its PEAK!

Do I miss some things of my previous life?.....hm maybe. Ok fine I’ll admit it...Yes I do miss some things. I miss being able to meet my friends in Chicago on a whim to hang out at all the random get togethers, I miss seeing my family as easily as I wanted to before, I miss being included in invites even though I prefer to spend time at home with Ryan and Estella, and I miss being able to be on time even though everyone in the world knows I won’t. (haha)

Are all those things worth it for me? No..not at all.