Three months!

Little Scarlett boohead is three months old today!  She's such a big girl!  Well, she's not actually that big physically, but she sure has impacted our lives in a huge way.  She gets cuter and sweeter and more delicious every day.  She loves it when we read her stories and she is starting to grab her toys.  I bought her an organic stuffed toy the shape of a green bean, but she prefers the polyester orange and pink monkey that came with her activity mat.  Maybe because it looks so real...  She started to suck on her left fist a couple weeks ago and now she goes at it like it's nobody's business.  She still loves to talk and is making all sorts of interesting new sounds.  She is sleeping a lot at night and her naps are getting better and better.  We are so proud of our little one.  

We took some pictures to commemorate this special day...

Cheese!  Okay, photo session over, Mommy and Daddy.

I'm serious.  Stop taking pictures.

I said no more!

Fine.  You do your thing.  I'm just going to suck on my fist.

You're still here?

Pffft!

Bubbles

A couple weeks ago I noticed some bubbles had formed on Scarlett's mouth. I thought that her baby drool was just kind bubbling on its own, but now I know better - Scarlett is making the bubbles! I think it's pretty funny, but as you can see in the photo, Scarlett is very serious about her craft. As soon as I wipe her mouth, she gets busy making more bubbles. And even though I'm not a big fan of nicknames, especially for Scarlett, we can't help but call her Bubbles when she displays this interesting, new and wet talent.

Thieves

You may or may not have heard that Adam Sandler's wife had a baby girl this past Sunday. Clearly they read my blog and that's why they chose to name her Sunny.  Rude.

Zzzzzzz? Sometimes.

There's no way around it - we are obsessed with Scarlett's sleep habits.  We have two types of days around here: on a good day Scarlett goes down for her naps easily and sleeps for over an hour at a time.  On these days I feel good, hopeful, productive, triumphant!  On a not-so-good day I'm in the bedroom most of the day trying to get her to stop crying so she can relax and go to sleep.  Some days I'm so desperate for her to nap that I let her sleep on me for as long as she needs, sometimes for a couple hours at a time.  I watch a lot of muted television.  It's funny how you really don't need the sound when there's closed captioning.  Especially for shows on HGTV.  Anyway, on those not-so-good days I feel frustrated and discouraged and lonely.  Thankfully, we're having a lot of good days lately.  Scarlett seems to be chilling out a bit.  She's crying less and falling asleep much quicker.  She's still a championship nighttime sleeper.  Since we started our nighttime routine (bath, massage, pajamas, swaddle, nurse) she sleeps for a good seven straight hours and just last night she slept for eight.  She woke up, I fed her and she slept for three more.  And THEN she took a two and a half hour nap.  Scarlett is such a happy baby when she's well rested.  She smiles at us when we pick her up out of her crib and she has lots of energy to coo and "talk" to us.  She is such a talker.  I'm not sure where she gets it from.  Weird.

Scarlett got her first pair of jeans recently and we celebrated with a trip to Target.  I'm not kidding.  Well, I am about the celebrating.  We did actually go to Target, though.    

Babies for Obama!!!

My aunt Mimi made this adorable onesie for Scarlett and we were so excited for her to wear it on voting day.  The future of this country is so much more important to us now that we have a daughter and we couldn't be happier about our new president!  And don't worry, we know the law - Scarlett and her onesie hid in the sling while I voted.