My Little Poppy Seed: Three Months Old

 Today my baby turned 3 months old!

Where does the time go?

She is just a happy little girl.

She smiles and coos all the time. 

She laughed at Erik the other day. 

OF COURSE I went to get the camera AND the video camera.

Came back with both.

She wouldn't do it again! ha!

We just love her so very much and thank GOD for her every day. 

She is eating great and growing just as she should.

 She is weighing around 12 pounds or so now and is about 23 inches long. 

We are FINALLY getting to know her cries and it is so WONDERFUL.

Less STRESS for me. 

Erik seems to think she is becoming more of a Momma's girl (which of course I like.)

He says he doesn't have the magic touch anymore to calm her down. 

I guess that's ONE benefit to being a SAHM.

 As you can tell she is VERY strong and is doing great at holding her head up. 

She LOVES to be on her tummy and therefore sleeps on her tummy A LOT!!

I know I know, they say not to put them on their tummy, but for me SLEEP is SLEEP. 

We both get more of it this way.

Her eating habits haven't changed too much, although this week has been a little different. 

More about that later. 

 This month we got to see Grandma (from California) again. 

She came to stay with us while Daddy was away at school.

She is such a big help when she is here and we miss her. 

Mema has also got to spend more time with us now that we are back to our regular routine. 

She comes over at least every Wednesday to eat and play. 

We took our first LONG road trip in the car to Corpus Christi. 

We got to see Aunt Tawny and and play with Kya. 

Hadleigh and Kya got along GREAT! They had so much fun playing the dancing game on the Wi. 

Hadleigh talks about it EVERY day and watches herself on the video on my phone. 

Libby DOES NOT like to be in her car seat. 

The trip to Corpus was actually pretty good, but on the way back was a different story. 

I'm pretty sure she cried 3/4 of the way. Poor Mema had to twist and turn and do all kinds of tricks to make her happy. 

 This is my assistant photographer, Hadleigh Jane. She helped me out on my photoshoot of 

Libby's 3 month pics today! She's pretty good if I do say so myself!

She got her to smile for me and look at the camera a few times. 

 Cannot believe how long she is getting. She is just the sweetest little thing. 

She loves it when her brother and sister talk to her. 

She smiles every time.

Hadleigh has gotten to rock her to sleep a few times. She doesn't even flinch when she cries. 

She just starts singing to her. 

I think her two favorite songs to sing are 

"This Little Light of Mine"

and

"I Love You" (a bushel and a peck)

I had to pack up all her Newborn and 0-3 month clothes this month. 

She's already growing out of them. 

So sad!

I don't think she got to wear more than 1/2 of them. 

Thank goodness most of them were either borrowed or Hadleigh's hand-me-downs. 

I think I need to write more than once a month.

I'm having a hard time remembering what happened this past month.

We made it back to church finally. 

The first two weeks back I kept Libby with me.

This past Sunday was her first week in the nursery. 

Insert SAD FACE here!

Of course she did GREAT! 

All the ladies just love to hold her, so I know she is well taken care of. 

Erik MADE me do it!

He said since he is the Children's Minister I should set an example!

:)

So now 3 of the 6 babies that were born before Christmas are together in the nursery. 

SO FUN!!

Libby's First week home

WOW...2 weeks have flown by. I guess because we spent almost 5 days in the hospital that it doesn't seem like she should be 2 weeks old already. 

We came home on Friday November 5th. 

It was so great to be home and in my own bed. Although it was hard as heck to get in and out of the bed for the first 4 or 5 days. 

I was pretty sore, but it's getting better every day. 

It feels like my stomach is just one BIG bruise, only it's not black and blue! 

Libby has been really great. She's eating every 2-3 hours and sometimes we will get a 4 hour stretch.

Hadleigh is in love with her. She wants to hold her and kiss her all the time. 

Isaac loves her too, but he still just goes about his business!

My grandparents came on Sunday and stayed until Thursday and it was WONDERFUL. 

Grandma Jo got to hold Libby a lot and I got to rest a lot! 

I am so glad they could come and spend some time with us.

While Grandma was here the kids LOVED on Papa James and they enjoyed taking them and showing them the river and fishing and playing at the park and eating at McDonald's!

We attempted to get a generational photo and I think they turned out pretty good considering I set up the tripod (which I've never done before) to get myself in the photograph with my children (in this case just us girls)

Thanks Grandma Jo for all your help!!

Thursday afternoon was my first day home by myself with Libby and we just relaxed and rested. 

It was peaceful. 

Friday was our first day home as a family by ourselves and the kids behaved really well.

They continued to play by themselves together.

We traveled to San Antonio in the evening to visit Erik's brother and Sister.

I have never even met his sister Julie so that was fun. 

The kids played with his brother, David, and they had a blast. It was nice for them to have someone's full attention. They were WORN out when we left!

While we were there Libby had a huge BLOW OUT in her diaper! She had not pooped in about a week and boy did she!!

Poor thing, it was up her stomach and all up her back! My friend Lauren warned me this was going to happen and it DID!! 

She's been feeding pretty good, she's latching on like she's supposed to, but I have no idea how much she is eating. 

I feel like I'm not really producing that much milk, but Lauren assures me that everything will be fine and she is getting what she needs.

Please pray that I would not stress out about this.

She did lose weight like everyone said she would and last Thursday she weighed 7.4 pounds. 

We go to the Pediatrician on Tuesday for her first official check up!

On another note, everyone has been asking how the kids are handling everything and at first I thought they were doing really great. 

Isaac is actually doing pretty good, besides a little back talking and not following directions the first time, but I think that goes with any 3 year old.

Hadleigh on the other hand is a little more affected. She LOVES Libby and I am so thankful for that and that she is not taking it out on her. Just me. If she doesn't get her way she gets HYSTERICAL. Yelling over and over and over "I want my Mommy, I want my Mommy!"

EVEN when I am holding her. It's breaking my heart. 

I know, I know, I know it will pass.

But in the moment it is not easy and it makes me very sad. 

Please pray for her and Erik and I on how to handle this situation. 

Yesterday my friend Nikki Loehr, a photographer from San Antonio who shot our Family portrait in 2009, One of my maternity sessions (the one in the water) and the kids Halloween pics for this year came all the way to Kerrville to help me capture a photo of our 

NOW family of FIVE and some newborn pics of Libby!

I am so thankful for her. It is still not easy for me to get up and down and I could NOT of captured these beautiful moments without her!

I helped do all the posing and she shot the images. It was so fun and MUCH easier working with another professional photographer to capture these NEWBORN images! 

Here is one that she sent me last night: