3 month old little girlies~

I am a few days behind but my girls are 3 months old! I would love to say, "where has the time gone" or "man, this flew by" but that would be a lie! I honestly can hardly remember what life was like before them, and it seems like I have been a mommy for much longer than 3 months! But oh what a wonderful 3 months it has been. I know I won't remember things, so boringly, for myself I am going to document what they are up to and how they are doing!


Zo Zo is:

-smiling up a storm
-cooing all day long and babbling...I have heard m, b, g, d and that warms this Speech Therapists heart!
- rolling from her back to her tummy...but HATES getting stuck on her tummy & screams until I flip her over!
-holding her little head up like a champ
-supporting her weight on her little legs when we hold her up
-has started straining her neck to watch the TV when it's on in the room....she loved her some TV
- loves to be read to and will attend to an entire 10 minute book smiling and cooing and making eye contact with me the whole time. It is precious!
-Has pretty much stopped crying much at all! She is the essence of content!
- sleeping like a little champ. Our sleep changes around here a lot. She was going to bed around 7, getting up around 1 for a quick bottle (It is always Nora who wakes up but we feed Zoe) and then sleeping like clockwork until 7:30am. I mean 7:30 on the dot. But lately they have been going to sleep around 8:30pm, getting back up around 5:45am to eat and then going back to asleep until around 9:15am. Yes please! Let's keep this up little girls. Zoe does not move an inch, or make a peep at night. She is the most still, quiet sleeper. I am pretty sure if we didn't have our little thrasher AKA Nora Beth, we would put Zoe down at night and not see them again until the morning.

Nora Beth is:

-smiling a lot but we have to work for it! When she is in the mood she won't turn the smile off for hours, and then some days we go a whole day and I am lucky to get a few good smirks!
-lifting her head up and supporting her weight on her elbows while on her tummy. She sleeps on her tummy now all night and I think the extra "tummy time" is doing her good.
-babbling like Zoe, but in the softest voice you have ever heard. When she cries it is downright shrill, but when she talks it is like she is whispering. Its odd to me. But very cute (the babbling...NOT the shrill crying).
-Will sit and listen to a book and watch my face the whole time. When I get really animated her little eye brows lift up in delight and it is beyond precious!
- Has become a tad hard to deal with during the day because she has developed an insistence on being held! I took her to the doctor twice because I was just sure she was ill or had an ear infection or something. Nope...just a mama's girl!
-Sleeping much better stretches at night! However, she must be the world's lightest sleeper. She thrashes around her crib all night long. Sometimes I look at the monitor and cannot believe a child can be moving so much and still be sleeping. She is officially a tummy sleeper and will not even consider a 2 second nap now on her back.
- She is eating up a storm and at 14 weeks was 13.6lbs. She never stops eating and I am starting to think our night wakings are a habit and not from hunger. I have yet to let her "cry it out". :) 

-rolling from her back to her tummy...but doesn't really seem to care to do it much. She really likes to just chill on her back and swat at her toys. She will smile and do her tricks if we force her...but I think she would prefer we leave her alone! :) 

Both girls are SO wonderful. I just love them so much! Looking forward to what month 4 will bring!! :)

Just for me :)

This is just for me....just to remember it all (and prob won't edit or spell check)

Little angels, you have been doing so well the past couple weeks! Your smiles are constant and it is so so so much fun to look at your sweet little faces all day! I love spending my days with you and sometimes still can't believe I am the mommy to both of you precious little girls! I found myself folding laundry the other day with a huge smile on my face thanking God for finally answering my prayers. I have always said I would rather stay home and be a mommy, fold clothes and make peanut butter sandwiched than go to work and here I am. Living what I truly  believe to be my perfect job, and exactly where God wants me to be!

Zoe Rose, you are a sleeping machine and are officially " sleeping through the night". You go down around 10:30-11 and get up around 5:30-6. It's awesome!

Nora Beth, my little peanut, you are doing so well too! You have pretty much dropped the middle of the night feeding too and sometimes just need a paci of a little squeeze from Mommy or Daddy to get back to sleep. Last night I heard you whimpering and waited a few minutes and you stopped all on your own. Such a big big girl!!

Zoe, you bring SO much joy with your smiles and energy. You are so alert and people are so amused by your outgoing nature! People always think you are older than you are because you are just so alert and strong! You have started kind of laughing and I can't think of a better sound on earth!

Nora girl, your are our snuggly little peanut and anytime we are with friends people fight to hold you little snuggle bug. You are so alert too and lock into whoever is holding you with your big blue eyes and huge smile. You are so super sweet, it really melts mommy a heart.

I am, at least this week so far (it's only Monday hehe) feeling pretty rested and still soaking in the baby bliss around here. We still have stressful days, lots of them, and we still have days with lots of crying. We still have dishes piling out of the sink and onto the counter, and with each load of laundry  the girls clothes get more and more unorganized. BUT I am just so thankful. Please God never let me forget how thankful I am for these precious blessings you have given me and thank you in advance for the third precious blessing we will have coming soon!! :)

Now, I am off to see if I can grab a quick 30 minute nap while the girls sleep! :)

(Girls at the gas station for a quick bottle and diaper change on our way home from Belton. Pumping in the car with very little tint on the windows is comical I must say! Oh the things we do for our babies huh!?)

Exhaustion

I now have so much respect for all mommies and must say that I now truly know the meaning of the word "exhaustion". I thought I knew before. I thought staying up until 3am in college and then rolling out of bed for an 8am class was exhaustion. I thought getting up at 4am to study in grad school was exhaustion. I thought if I didn't find my bed after a night of less than 5 hours of sleep I was exhausted. Nope. I think I now really know what it means to be so so so tired. Our girls are precious. I mean, they are perfection in my book!! But they are going on 11 weeks and until last night I hadn't gotten more than 4 hours in a row of sleep since they have been born. Most nights would consist of us desperately trying to get Zoe to go down (Nora goes right to sleep) and then around 12-1 once Zoe was out Nora would wake up and scream (not wanting to eat I will add) until about 3am when then Zoe would promptly wake up to eat. So we feed both girls, change them, put them back in their swaddles, and spend until around 4am getting everyone back astleep. Sometimes 4:30. Then we go back to bed, fall astleep and would wait for the 6am starvation cries and I would get back up and do that one myself because Lance leaves at 6:30 and so begins our day! So if you are doing the math that is about 2.5 TOTAL hours of sleep a night. To say I was beginning to lose it is an understatement! We feed the girls at the EXACT same time all day long so we really don't know why the have fallen into such opposite sleeping patterns. However, the light at the end of the tunnel is starting to shine a teensy bit because last night Zoe did her typical stay up until 11:30ish however she then slept until almost 7am!!! And Nora did her typical wake up but not until 3am!! So we slept from about 11:45-3:00 then from about 4-6!! It was heavenly and I have been so happy and hopeful all day!! I just know they are on the cusp on real sleep!! Well they sleep ok now, but I think we may finally be about to see some synchronized sleep!! Here's hoping right!! :)