Harper 3 Months

3 Months....seriously?!?!  I forgot how hard it is for me to handle all of the changes that happen in the first year until now.  As much as I want my baby to keep getting bigger because it means she is doing good and is nice and healthy, it also breaks my heart a little bit.  I get so sad when my babies outgrow their clothes....packing away baby clothes is one of the hardest things for me sniff sniff.  With that said, our tiny little Harper is not so tiny anymore!!  This last month she has really grown and is no longer in "newborn" clothes.  In fact, she is wearing a size 2 diaper and averages around 3.5-4 ounces every 2-3 hours depending on the day and occasionally 5 ounces if she is really hungry.  She is doing great with her night feedings, usually going 7-8 hours in between bottles.  She generally takes a bottle around 7-7:30 and falls asleep around 8 and doesn't wake up to take another bottle until 2:45ish.  I have a great husband who gets up and feeds her during the middle of the night and then I do the next bottle that falls somewhere between 6:30-7:30 in the morning (Matt works out during this time that's why he does the earlier feeding).  Let me set the record straight though: he goes to bed as early as he can once the girls are down and I stay up and pump....Yes, somehow I have managed to continue pumping twice a day...once in the morning and once at night.  While it is nowhere near enough for Harper, she has been getting close to 3 bottles a day worth of breastmilk which makes me feel like it has been worth it although most days the last thing I want to do is pump.

Harper spends a lot of time in her swing during the day.  She sleeps fairly good in the swing, especially when it is on.  By now you would think that Harper would be able to tune out all of the noise from Peyton but instead she seems even more sensitive to the slightest noise.  In fact, sometimes she will wake up just from me turning the knob to turn the swing off!!  Needless to say, she is not a heavy sleeper, although I guess I can't complain since she is sleeping so well at night.  Which brings me to my next point...Harper is still sleeping in our room in the rock and play sleeper because Peyton is still in the crib in the nursery.  I definitely should be moving Peyton out of the nursery by now but honestly, I just haven't been ready to move her to her big girl bed upstairs.  The first 2 months were a whirlwind with Harper coming early and then being hospitalized with viral meningitis and we finally have started getting settled into a routine and I don't want to change anything....maybe next month I'll be ready haha.

Despite my best efforts, Harper is still not really interested in taking a paci. However, she does like to suck on her fist and occasionally her thumb.  She also likes to grab onto her dresses and blankets....I am wondering if this means that she will want a lovey when she gets a little older.  It is pretty much impossible to keep a blanket or a pair of socks on this baby because she always kicks them off.  In fact, we have pretty much stopped putting socks on her feet at night because she NEVER keeps them on.  She isn't super crazy about tummy-time and truth be told I haven't forced the issue like I probably should, but she has really good head control when on her tummy and in sitting.  In the last week or so she has started lifting her head up and clearing the surface when she is laying on her back.  It is as if she is trying to sit up.  We think she has been fighting some issues with her acid reflux and seems to prefer being held upright on my chest more these days but won't usually fall asleep this way.  She likes to look around and take everything in when on my chest.  She loves for you to walk when holding her and this is usually what we do when she is really upset.  She also likes for you to bounce and sometimes sway with her when she is upset.

Harper LOVES her big sister and lights up when Peyton is near.  She is smiling a good bit more, especially first thing in the morning.  She really is such a sweetie and I know that she and P are going to be the best of friends.