3 months

You'll be 3 months old in 3 days.We've had a lot of fun this past month.We went to the beach a couple of times.You smile a lot.You're getting slightly better at naps.You enjoy being on your back, but you're getting better at tummy time.We went to Disneyland.We had family come and visit.I've dressed you and your big brother alike a couple of times. (You don't seem to mind it as much as he does.)Your nighttime sleep patterns are unpredictable. Sometimes you wake up and want to eat once, sometimes twice, sometimes it just takes a pacifier to get you back to sleep, and sometimes you sleep 8 hours straight. I'm looking forward to when I know what the nights will be like consistently.

I'm wondering if you hate being swaddled. 'They' say every baby loves it, but you can work your way our of the tightest wrap. Sometimes if we have an early feeding I don't re-wrap you and you seem to love having your arms up and/or sucking your hand. Swaddling has always been a tricky one for me.

You only take the pacifier (day and night) about half the time. I wish you loved it, because when you take it, it calms you right down.

You hate your car seat. Garrett hated it too, but would fall asleep after a couple of minutes. You probably only fall asleep about 25% of the time, and if you won't take your pacifier, you cry the whole time.

We took you to the Instacare this past Friday night because you had a rough week, and a particularly rough day of inconsolable crying. The doctor says you have Colic. Not fun. But we got so tummy drops that seem to help and the past couple of days haven't been so bad. You got weighed at the Instacare and you weigh 11 lbs. 12 oz. A couple of the nurses offered to keep you until you outgrow the Colic, but I think I can handle it...and I can't handle being away from you, tears and all!

Two months

We made it to two months! (3 days ago) We had your 2 month well check today which means you had shots, which also means, no fun. After your brother had his one year shots I told dad that I'm no longer on immunization duty, or at the very least, he has to come with me. But of course I took you by myself. You did ok. You cried really hard during them. Even though it only lasts a few seconds it seemed like forever. And I admit, I had to fight back the tears myself. No mom likes to see their child hurt. But we made it through.

You weigh exactly 11 pounds, 55th percentile. You are 22.25 inches long, 50th percentile. And the proof that you have some Greenhalgh in you, your head circumference is 41 cm, 95th percentile! The nurse asked if I had to have a c-section because your head is so big.

A little about you at the 2 month mark:

-You smile all the time.

-You coo and make darling little baby noises often and I love it.

-The nurse said, "what a good baby, is she really mild mannered and content like this at home?" My response was, "I guess compared to most yes, compared to her brother as a baby, not quite as much."

-Dad and I really are lucky to have the laid back babies that we do. You are a little more fussy than I remember your brother being, but the first 3 months of his life are a blur, so maybe you're not that far off.

-You're not a great napper. I usually only get 2 one hour naps out of you a day, and then its just 20 minutes at a time here and there.

-You sleep good at night. We swaddle you when we're ready to go to bed, around 10. It takes 30-60 minutes to get you to sleep, and then you usually sleep for 7 hours, I feed you and you go back to sleep for sometimes an hour or two, and a couple times a week 3 more hours.

-Every once in a while you have a bad night. You wake up 2 or 3 times in the first 6 hours and its rough. Fortunately, its not often that this happens.

-Garrett grabs your hands and feet a lot and lightly shakes them, I used to try and get him to stop, but lately you look right at him and smile and look so happy and excited. So with close supervision, Garrett has already started playing with you a lot.

-Eating is still going well. We've got the nursing thing down, and its easy and convenient.

-I don't want to call you sis, but it happens a lot. The other nicknames that are catching on are Addie-cake, Addie-bug and Addie-lou. (I like bug and cake, dad likes lou.)

You get cuter and cuter everyday. And we love you so, so much.

Your first Christmas

We spent your first Christmas in Utah, but we celebrated early with Grandma and Grandpa White. Here you are giving Garrett's new rocking horse a try.We drove through the night to Utah, without Garrett. He flew there with Grammy. I think because there was no brother noise on the ride, you did awesome. We only took you out of your car seat for one diaper change. You slept most of the drive and didn't cry at all.

You did great on our 10 day vacation. A lot of people wanted to meet you and you seemed to enjoy all the busyness.You got spoiled, even though you had no idea what was going on.The biggest new thing with you that happened over the holidays was real smiles. You smile like crazy now and I can't get enough.I wondered if these little milestones would be as excited with baby #2 as they were with #1, and they are!

Four Generations.Great grandma and grandpa Garrett.Temple Square.
You met some new friends.You (barely) made it till midnight on new years eve!We celebrated with just the 4 of us when we got home from Utah. All you got was an ornament, a stuffed owl, and a onesie. You obviously didn't care about any of it, but I wanted something under the tree with your name on it. We do ornaments every year for each other. Last year I got Garrett a "G" and dad got him a sock monkey, so this year you got an "A" and an owl ornament. I'm also making something for your room (even though there's no space for anything else) but I didn't get around to it before Christmas.We love having you with us. Your Grammy loved it too. See said several times over the holidays that she can't believe she has 2 grandkids! She's also really glad you're a girl because with one of each, she can still have favorites!

One month

The first month has gone by so fast. It's been a good month. You're pretty easy to have around.Your brother is getting more used to having you around, and I think the two of you will do just fine together.You don't mind the bath, but you don't seem to love it like your brother did.You sleep good at night, we're at about a 6 hour stretch and it's so nice. You don't really cry when you wake up to eat, you just make little sounds to let me know you're up and ready. This gives me hope that you won't wake you're brother too much when we move you to your crib. (Your room shares a wall with his and they are not sound proof.)

We've taken you out more than I thought we would, probably because of the holidays. But you do great.You nap with your hands up like this a lot. I love it.You have a couple hours after dinner time, many 4 or 5 days a week, that you're pretty fussy. Dad and I usually talk during those hours about what it could be. But we think it's just you being a little fussy. Other than that, you're pretty content most of the time.