3 Months

This little girl is 3 months today! Oh how I love her!

Yes, she can be happy! She became so smiley for me this past month. And it's usually just for me. Occasionally she'll smile for Clint.

And she loves to sit and just look at everything. She doesn't like laying down as much anymore.

She is officially in size 3-6 month clothes and some 6 month clothes fit her, loosely, but they fit. I love her chunkiness!

I love her playful eyes. They are so beautiful!

And Jonas wanted his pic too. I still need to get a pic of them together sometime. He was in his Pj's so I didn't do them together.

I love my little girl so much, even though she gives me a run for my money. And there is one thing that I have learned about Alexis. She is a complete mystery! I might think she's getting in a routine, but then she decides to throw it out the window and do something different. I might think the crying at night is over, then she decides to start it up again. Remember in a previous post how I said she would cry at night for 10-20 minutes? This past week it has changed to crying for a good hour or two. All because she doesn't want to go to sleep. I might think holding her a certain way is how she likes it, then a few days later she hates it and I have to figure out how she wants to be held all over again. A few weeks this past month, we were getting her to bed by 9, and all I would have to do is hold her, bounce on the exercise ball, and watch my tv show ("Chuck") and she would fall asleep (crying every once and a while before she fell asleep) and then we could lay her down. The past week she has hated that and I can't do it anymore. Last night we figured out that if we turn on the bathroom fan and the light, and just do a little swaying bouncing dance she'll be quiet and eventually fall asleep. But I bet that will change in a week.

So I guess there's really only one thing that I expect/have learned about her - to be unexpected. Everything can change at a drop of a hat and change completely. She is a very difficult baby, and every time I take her out of the house, I get nervous that she will just hate it and cry the whole time. And when she starts to cry it is SO hard to get her to stop. Like church, it's awful! She will not eat good or sleep well if she's not at home. If we're out, she'll only eat for 3 minutes and then decide she is done, or else start crying and then won't eat anymore. Even at home sometimes she only eats for 5 minutes and then is hungry after 2 hours. There's no schedule whatsoever with her eating. She can be so frustrating sometimes! It's a good thing I love her. I'm glad I'm a stay at home mom, because I honestly wouldn't trust anybody else with her because she can be so frustrating. But, I wouldn't change her for anything! I love her.