The Best 2 months!

Can you believe this little monkey is already 2 and a half months old! I can't even believe it. It has gone by so fast, yet I was thinking the other day that I can hardly even remember being pregnant. Weird! I think your mind has to shut itself off to the pain or else you wouldn't do it again. :) We are just having the best time with our little Daphne. She is so much fun. She is sleeping pretty good. Probably the best out of our girls at this age. I feed her at around 7:30 for the last time at night and she doesn't get up until around 3:00 and goes right back to sleep. Then she'll get up around 7:00, eat again and go back to sleep...depending on our schedule and on how quiet the girls are being! :) So I am pretty proud of her! She has been doing this schedule for a while now too! Yippeee! (But I won't talk about the last two nights! Ughhh so tired!) But with this little face...I am so willing!

She has been a good baby. Once we finally got the Acid Reflux medicine she has been pretty chill. She'll hang out on a blanket and play. She loves her little play mat with toys above her. She'll lay under it and kick her arms and legs around making the toys shake and rattle. She is starting to have lots of fun with it.
She likes to tilt her head to her right side. The Doctor says we need to encourage her to put it to the other side as well so her muscles don't get too tight and lock up. So I try...
She had her 2 month check up and weighed in at 13 lbs. 6 oz. And 24 and a half inches long. Her little shots were so sad, but she did good.
She loves to cuddle with her blankies. She holds them so tightly right by her chest. She loves to have the blanket up by her face and snuggles into it. Obviously on when I have her in her carrier or something where I can keep an eye on her. She loves taking baths! She cuddles down into the warm water and could lay there for hours! So cozy!
She is really starting to interact with us. We ALL adore it! Whenever I am talking to her, the girls come running, "Is she smiling!?!" And they get right up in her face. If she WAS smiling, she usually isn't anymore. I keep telling them to just stay back a little because they are so close that she can't figure out what is right there in her face. Once they step back a bit, she will smile at her sisters! And they LOVE it!
She is my little cuddle bug and I just love her! Sadie and Lucy are usually to busy and crazy to cuddle. So I love that I can cuddle with her whenever I want! I just wish I could more often! :) She is having more awake times and it's fun to interact with her. She is very easy going and just goes with the flow. I think being the 3rd she kind of has to. I feel bad because I feel like she never gets a good nap because I am usually waking her up to put her in her car seat to go somewhere. Whether it be swim lessons, the store, summer camps, dance, whatever! But she is good about it! I just love her!
One night as we were getting the girls ready for bed, I had Daphne all ready and was helping the girls so I laid Daphne on Sadie's bed. After Sadie was ready, she went to go cuddle with Daphne. Of course Daphne was ready to nurse so the second she feels skin she tries to latch on. The girls LOVED it because Daphne was "giving them bedtime kisses!" They thought it was so funny and kept wanting her to give them kisses. After enough teasing, I finally took Daphne to go nurse! Now at night the girls love to have Daphne give them kisses. But I think she is starting to wise up to what is going on. :) (Lucy didn't want her picture taken)
I didn't even get a picture of Daphne with Daddy on Father's Day. These are the only pictures I got! Besides some presents, we made Daddy a special dessert! We had a yummy BBQ and then had these!

I got the idea here: Bakerella

They are just slices of sugar cookies with sugar sprinkled on them for the fries; and a cupcake with frosting and a brownie for the burger and sesame seeds sprinkled on top. They turned out really cute and were not difficult! Obviously since I made them! :) The girls thought they were so cool and tricky! They wouldn't take their picture together...so you get two pictures. Lucy also made this tie for Daddy at church.

Lucy was telling everyone in nursery that it was Mother's Day for her Daddy! Then after church she was telling Chris "Happy Mother's Day!" It was so funny! She is too cute!

Texas Summer

Besides taking and editing pictures, we have mostly been at the pool. It has already been such a H.O.T. summer! My girls seriously live in their swimsuits. If we are not at the neighborhood or YMCA pool, they are in the sprinklers, in our blow-up pool in the back yard or at the neighbors on their big blow up water slide. It is hot and you can only consume so many Popsicles, right?

So while the girls are doing a LOT of this:
I am doing a lot of this: Mostly I have to stay in the shade. 1) to keep Daphne out of the sun, 2) it is too stinkin' H.O.T. to be in the direct sun! But this occurrence was from 3:00 to 5:30 and it was actually a nice day...before it got too hot.

And while we are doing that, Daphne has been doing a LOT of this! Poor girl. Don't worry, I am now dressing her in less and of course she has her little fan! She is such a trooper and is already sacrificing for the happiness of her family. She "gladly" gives up her comfy bed and trades it in for a sweaty carrier; just so her sisters can have a little fun!

Usually we try not to cause a scene, but Lucy was turning lots of heads this trip! :) She didn't understand what was so funny as she waddled all the way across the pool, from the bathroom to me, to get help pulling up her wet swim suit! I love that she just doesn't care.
Sadie and Lucy started swim lessons this week, so I am afraid we will be spending even MORE time at the pool now. Sadie has really become a great swimmer. She seems to pick up really quickly on active things like swimming, riding bikes, etc. We are so proud of her!
Lucy has been a little timid with the pool. If she can't touch, she gets scared. But if she can touch, she is a little fish! The first day of lessons, she wouldn't even get in the pool and had to come sit on a towel by Mommy. This is partly my fault, as I have not been able to get in the pool with them. But yesterday I made sure that I did and she has warmed up a lot. She did GREAT with her kicks as I held her hands and she "swam" around the pool. We were so proud and she was so excited to show her swim teacher today.I know the heat won't last forever, thank goodness. But while it is here, we will definitely enjoy ourselves!

Busy Week

All this week I have been doing the dance photo shoot again. It is always a busy crazy week. I was really anxious about it before the week started. I think the pressure of it all on top of having a newborn, was the culprit. But it is going pretty well. The biggest issue we have faced is Daphne not taking a bottle. She will hold out sometimes until I get home! Chris will usually eventually be able to get some food in her. My friend Lyndsee told us a trick of feeding her while she is in her carrier or something and we tried it yesterday with success! (maybe she is relating being held with nursing) But, on the bright side, her stubbornness has pushed her to do longer stretches at night. :) Tuesday night I got home at around 9 and fed her and then laid her down around 9:30. She didn't get up until 6:30!! That was after I had woken up around 6:15, got nervous and went to check on her. Felt her tummy to feel if she was breathing and went back to bed. So I could have been the one that woke her up!

So yesterday there is one morning dance class and instead of having the sitter come, I just brought the girls with me. So while we were waiting for everyone to get there and get ready I figured I would snap a couple pictures of the girls and especially Daphne - since I haven't gotten many pictures of her. Come on, I am a third child...you think I would be better but I haven't!

I didn't want to adjust the lighting and stuff so it isn't the best because they were right on the floor rather than up a bit. But it works. None of them were even ready for the day - for picture standards; but once again, it is a crazy week. I am in my pajamas as I am typing this and same with the girls. Well, besides Sadie since she has to get herself dressed the second she gets out of bed. But she is wearing a skirt that was already worn and left on her floor and a shirt that doesn't match.

Today is our last day! Then I will be planted in front of my computer for weeks editing and ordering pictures. And once they come...packaging! It's a lot of work but I am really enjoying the escape from constant Motherhood. A different form of challenge.

I also have Sadie's birthday coming up that I need to get on top of. Ahhh! Sorry Sadie, but I don't think this years party will be up to par!

Anyway, here is sweet little Daphne!She is getting so big. The past few days she has REALLY started to smile. I am - WE are ALL loving it! The girls are constant trying to get her to smile! But as of now it is hit or miss. After a nap and food she is usually good to go and ready for social hour! A couple weeks ago she started giving us an occasional half smile, still figuring it out. But now she really understands the interaction more. It was so cute. On Tuesday, I got Lucy dressed and Lucy was really excited about her dress. So she stood up on her bed to show Daphne, as I was holding Daphne. Lucy did a little twirl and asked Daphne if she liked her dress and Daphne gave her a huge smile and held it for a long time! It was so cute! And then she was trying to coo a lot! She was "talking" up a storm. We were loving it!