Allison: Three Months

Three months with our sweet Allie girl! What a fun fun month it has been with her. 

At the end of September, Allison was baptized alongside her cousin Mason after mass. When I have that blog post written (whoops!), I'll be sure to link it here. Nichole and Connor Walters were Allison's godparents, and Eric and I were Mason's godparents. It was a fabulous day!

I started back to work on the 9th, (which has me feeling all the feels- but mostly super happy!) so that means that Allison started daycare that day. I was a little worried about how well she would do going from a pretty quiet environment during the day to a lot more noise at daycare, but she has handled it like a champ. It's like she was made to be the baby of the family- it's never quiet when the other crazies (read Brayden, Ashley, and Katie) are around so she is just used to that I guess. Girlfriend loves to sleep, we've been way too lucky on that forefront, and she has kept up her schedule that we had at home at daycare. Enjoy some pictures from her first few weeks there!

She's enjoyed some fresh air at the farm while the big kids had a combine ride with my dad.

She had her first big car ride when we took the kids to the zoo last weekend. 

And she helped Eric celebrate his birthday!

This afternoon we will be heading to Scare on the Square, so stay tuned for her Halloween costume!

As for the rest of this past month, I think I can sum it up with one word- love.

Allison is weighing about 13.8 pounds and is roughly 23.5 inches long. She is wearing 3 month clothes and is in size 1 diapers. 

She is doing so much better holding her head up during tummy time, but is usually pretty over it after about 5-7 minutes. We do get lots of tummy time on our chests too, and she does really well holding her head up and looking around when you are holding her upright. 

And the smiles. SO many smiles. At Eric and I, at the kids, at the toys on her swing or playmat. It doesn't take much to make to make this girl happy.

She has really started chatting up a storm, especially in the evenings. She even is having some back and forth "conversation" with you. 

She is eating a total of 28 ounces, three 6 ounce bottles at 6:30, 11ish, 3-4ish, and then two 5 ounce bottles around 6:30 and 9:30. We are in bed sometime between 10 and 10:30. I'd love to push that up a bit more so I can get a little more sleep, but we will get there eventually. I honestly can't complain, she sleeps SO well, taking two long naps, one nap about an hourish, and then usually a 30-40 minute nap around 8/8:30.

Current nicknames include Allie, Al, and Brayden's favorite, "the new baby". I'm secretly hoping he keeps calling her that for years to come ha!

Allison's favorites include being more upright in her swing or bouncer to see what is going on, any and all attention she can get, and having a blow out sometime between her 6:30 and 9:30 bottle. Seriously, if we ever have a blowout, it's going to happen at that point in the day. She also really enjoys bath time.

She is not a big fan of not being able to get a burp out. We went from trapped gas on the bottom end last month to trapped gas on the top end this month! If you lay her down, especially at night, and she starts fussing, you can pretty much guarantee that she needs to burp again. 

This next month is bound to be a fun one with the fall season setting in, and of course her first Halloween, and we are ready for it!