3 Month Update

* Unofficially she weighs about 12 1/2 pounds and 24 inches long.

* She is wearing 0/3 month and 3 month clothes.  The 0/3 are fitting her now and some of her 3 month stuff is still big.

* She is still in newborn diapers, but that may only last through tomorrow.  They are getting a little bikini-esque and they can't quite hold everything she is producing!  Even though the 1s still look huge on her to me, I think the switch is going to be tougher on me than her (pretty much the story of my life these days!).

* I am back at work.  I went back on May 16th.  We have been so blessed to have lots of great family support during these 4 1/2 weeks so that we didn't have to put her in day care yet.  Leslie, Mom, Jason, and Jason's mom have all taken turns keeping her and it has been awesome.  THANK YOU THANK YOU!  Being back at work was really rough the first week, but since I've been back for a couple of weeks it really hasn't been bad.  I've enjoyed getting back to my kids (even though my patience was just about zero from day one!) and getting to spend time with all of my friends here.  I hope when I have to do this again in August it goes as well!

* Since I'm back at work, we have to get our morning rolling fairly early.  When she is staying at our house we are getting her up at 6:30 to get the party started.  When she stayed at Leslie, I'd get up at 5:45 to get my shower in so that I could be on the road to meet Will by 7:30. 

*  She is sleeping 8 hours at night every night.  We are getting her up at 6:30 and then she'll eat at 9:30, 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, and then her last feeding will be at 10.  She goes down at 10:30 and we get her up at 6:30 to start it all over again!  I love that last feeding.  Even though she sleeps through it most of the time, I love letting her sleep on my shoulder when she is finished for a just a few minutes before I put her down.  There is nothing sweeter than a sleeping baby.  I love just listening to her breath and smelling her delicious baby smell and watching her smile those sweet sleepy smiles. 

* On Wednesday nights, Ja stays up and feeds her that last feeding so that I can go to bed right around 10 after I pump.  It is great to have as much sleep as I can on that one night.  It gives me enough energy to get through the rest of the week! 

* I am still feeding her, so pumping at work has become part of my daily routine!  We have it down pretty well.  I feed her at 6:30 and then I pump before I leave for work.  I pump at work around noon.  I feed her at 6 or 6:30 and then I pump before the 10 feeding.  It has been working great and my milk supply has stayed right up there.  It dipped a bit at the beginning of me working, but it has come back full force and I have a freezer FULL. 

* Her exersaucer and bumbo came out right around 12 weeks.  She has great head control and enjoys sitting up and standing up so that she can look around.  She is still a little bit small for them, but she does great and is building those muscles!

* She gets so serious when she studies things.  You can just see that brain working when she catches the pattern on the blanket or the pillow or the duck on Leslie's exersaucer that she is IN LOVE with.

* Anna LOVES her some Caroline.  When she stayed with Leslie, Anna was such a great helper.  She would feed her to help Leslie out.  One time she even fed her, burped her, and then gave her the rest of her bottle.  I see a fantastic babysitter in our future!!  I'm so glad that Caroline will have Anna and Jack to grow up with.

*  She is smiling and talking lots now!  She smiles fairly easily when she is fed and has had a good nap.  She talks a lot and I swear she is saying 'Hi!' and 'Hey!'.  That smile is enough to just melt me down to a puddle of nothing.  It is what I can't wait to get home to after a day at work.  We are only a couple of weeks away from summer when I get to see that sweet smile all the time!!

* I have come to call her Toots, even though her Daddy doesn't like it.  I started calling her Tutti Frutti when she first got here and then that progressed to Toots and Fruits and now I just like to call her Toots.  Her Daddy still calls her Squeaks sometimes because when she was little little she would squeak and grunt all the time. 

8 weeks - She LOVES her butterflies!

Caroline is 9 weeks and Jack is 13 weeks.  Not as much difference as there once was!

Uncle Jeffro got some Caroline snuggle time in while Leslie and I played with Penelope, Jack, and Anna! (9 weeks)

There is nothing sweeter than a good sleeping baby! (9 weeks)

Uncle Patrick was in North Carolina for a little bit and we met him at Southpoint for a little lunch and puke session!

Tell me that smile is not the cutest thing!

She doesn't wear anything on her feet often, but she is kicking it with those bunny slippers!! (10 weeks)

10 weeks!

Daddy brought Caroline to see me for lunch on my first day back at work! (10 weeks)

She is getting some thunder thighs!  (11 weeks)



Smileypants in her exersaucer.  She is such a happy little thing! (12 weeks)



Holding her own bottle!  She has no idea what she is doing, but it was still pretty funny! (12 weeks)

She still loves her bath time!  She usually smiles, but she is looking quite concerned here! (13 weeks)

Aunt Katie got her these sassy sunglasses and she rocked them for a while in the bath! (13 weeks)

Holding her hair back with her sunglasses, just like Aunt Leslie!

Happy 3 Months, Sweet Caroline!