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Baby Journal: 3 Months Old


Dear Lorelai, 

You are already three months old, and I just can't believe it. Your dad realized that you've been in our lives for a almost year now, as we found out about you about a year ago. Your smile, is the absolute best thing in the world. You smile more at your dad than at your mom...but if you're dad isn't around you give me plenty of great smiles. 

You're starting to notice a bottle and know that it means it's time to eat. You watch Lady sometimes, but your true love is the T.V. If we are on the couch with the T.V on, we have to flip you around to face us...or else we find you will stare at the T.V forever! You also are noticing faces more and more, which isn't always a good thing since you seem to have a lot of "stranger danger" instincts (which your mother didn't have enough of growing up). 

We still haven't gotten you to giggle yet, but we assume it is any day now! You had a lot of rough sleeps this last month, but near the end you were doing great at sleeping 7-8 hours a night straight before waking up to eat. We're hoping you keep that up!


Your three month photos were a blast, but you were really only willing to do about 15 minutes of photos, but since you're just so cute that is all we needed! We didn't get you very smiley though, because you knew something about your surroundings was off, and you didn't particularly like the straw. You also almost didn't fit into your blue dress, because your mother made it about a month ago....and you seemed to have grown more than I ever expected you would! You have the prettiest blue eyes, that even strangers love to comment on. When we are outside they just sparkle like crazy!

You and cousin Avi will soon be playing with each other, and we just can't wait until you both are best friends! You doing pretty well in the carseat, and you know down to the minute when it has been 3 hours since you last ate. You're eating a lot, more than I can pump no matter how much I try. But on the weekends when you nurse, you do just fine without formula. 


You still don't like tummy time, but you can put up with in for a few minutes. You hold your head up so great, and just recently have started watching when people eat, which is so funny. You can grab a few things, and when you get hold of it it goes immediately into your mouth. If you don't have anything to grab, you're perfectly fine trying to shove your entire fist in there. You still don't take a pacifier very often, and we usually find you licking it like an icecream cone in your carseat. You never did go back to sucking your thumb, which I'm still a little sad about. 


This is all to say, we love you so much and are loving each and every day you show us something new you've learned to do! 



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