Lulu at Three Months

Miss Lulu is an amazing three month old now.

She has a smile that lights up the room no matter what.

She is starting to discover her laugh...it's not fully there yet, but working on it.

She talks up a storm to everyone that will listen, and to many that don't listen.

She is very actively trying to sit up, stand, and roll from her belly to back.
(She almost does have the rolling down, she's about 3/4 of the way over and just can not seem to get that last little bit of it.)

Here Lulu is wearing a dress, from my childhood, to Church today.

(check out this drool action from the mouth to the thumb.)

Then, of course, we have the monthly purple daisy diaper shots

Lulu's Blanket

When my Mom came down when Lulu was born she taught me a new pattern for crocheting.

It's called corner to corner...here are some illustrated directions

Her is Lulu being a wonderful model showing off her blanket

I am now working on a blanket for Millikins; with yarn colors she picked out!

She so excited.

Our Little Waitress

Millikins has an urge to write these days.

She doesn't want to exactly learn her letter or numbers, although there is some interest on that front. Usually what she wants to write is an order for food. She'll walk up to you with her little magna doodle and ask you, "Is there anything else?"

We eat out some times, no where NEAR enough for her to have as her life ambition to be a waitress. Although, how often she has been playing this game makes me wonder if we aren't eating at home enough.

Maybe she has a life ambition to be a cook? Which would be a very strange twist of irony since Millikins doesn't eat practically ANYTHING!

Yesterday, I was able to sneak the camera out and catch her in the act of taking down my order for spaghetti with cheese on top.

She actually wasn't showing me my order here, she was trying to deflect the camera to a lamp that she pretends is either a waterfall or a shower-she wanted me to take pictures of the lamp instead of her. But, it looks like she's asking for my confirmation of my order so I had to include it, even though I just gave away what she's really doing. =)

Lulu's in a Hurry

Our little Lulu is in a hurry to grow.

at the end of February she was 13.8 pounds and 24.5 inches.

Both 99%.

Now, she has gotten to the point that she wants to sit and stand AT ALL TIMES.

She'll start yelling and crying if you don't hold her in a way that she can sit up. She'll even throw herself forward trying to sit up, we have to be very careful with her!

Today, since she was standing so well in my lap, I drug out the saucer to give it a try.

I know she's only 10 weeks, please don't lecture.

I had her propped up too, so her head did not flop anywhere.
(also, did I mention that she has AMAZING head control already?)

Here are some photos of her enjoying herself.

(Excuse some of the blur in the photos, we were playing with not using the flash on a cloudy kinda dark Seattle day. They happen a lot around here.)

Millikins Enters the Computer Age

We went to the mall on President's Day to see if there were some good sales on some shirts for me, no such luck in that department. But, we had to hit the Apple store for Dave's eye candy.

We walked out carrying a bag, actually Millikins walked out carrying the bag. She got a Dora computer game. It's a fun preschool game. Just another way that I can teach her her letters and numbers and such. Millikins LOVES Dora at the moment, so that helps reinforce things.

Dave was telling his co-worker all about Millikins pretending to use one of her books as a laptop and working. This co-worker had an old, working, laptop from the 80's that he donated to a lonely three year old girl. Let me tell you, it was LOVE at first sight.

Eating grapes and playing tetris.

Two Month Check Up

Little Lulu had her two month check up today.

She is now 13.8 lbs and 24.5" long.

Meaning she has gained 5.3 lbs since she was 10 days old.
And has gained 3.5" in length.

She is currently in the 99% for weight and height.

Yeah for breastfeeding!

Lulu is two....months.

We are taking monthly photos of Lulu in the same cloth diaper, of course it's been cleaned, to see her growth over this year. Here is the first update on it.

Here she is at almost 1 month

Here she is at a full two months old

Quite the happy 'chunky' baby! :D

She LOVES her food and makes it clear that you don't mess with feeding time.

We are still exclusively breastfeeding and things are going GREAT! Lucy has decided that she has moved past a growth spurt and will sleep between 3-6 hours at a time now at night. She has switched from a big morning nap to taking a long afternoon nap.

She is such a joy to be around and LOVES Millikins. Everytime she can sit and watch Millikins is such a treat for Lulu. Millikins loves to perform for Lulu too, and audience is an audience after all! Millikins tries to help me out by singing to Lulu when she's upset to try to help calm her down.