Things I Swear Never to Forget...

Things I want to remember at 3 months:

- She still doesn't cry tears (since she hardly ever cries, I guess that's not too surprising)
- When she sleeps her hands are in little fists
- She has no eyelashes on the bottom!
- That little inhale/sigh she does when air blows on her face
- She loves to be held facing the world, with one hand under her bottom and the other across her stomach.  Also really likes the baby Bjorn
- She hates a dirty diaper
- Those tiny white dots "milia" on her face, and otherwise perfect complexion - babies are so lucky
- When she raises her arm up in the air, Sam says, "Emerson has a question"
- The little bald ring around her head from sleeping on her back
- She does NOT LIKE tummy time
- Those little sighs and "sleep smiles"
- Her long fingers (with short fingernails - I have successfully cut them twice!)
- She drinks anywhere from 4-8 oz at one sitting, usually every 3-4 hours during the day (stocking up for many more long hours of sleep - in case she's reading this, the power of suggestive speech)
- She LOVES baths - especially when the water trickles on her foot from the faucet.  She has had one (and this had better be the only one) bath poop.  It was awful.  I had to hose her down with the sprayer.
- Mmmmmmm...that newborn baby, just-had-a-bath smell.
- Her fuzzy hair right after the bath.
(Kind of want to go give her a bath now, after thinking about all those.  Who cares if it's 4:30 in the morning?)

3 months...wow...

Little Em is 3 months old already!  I'll say it again - on the one hand, it feels like time is going by so fast with her - almost 13 weeks! - but on the other hand, it seems like she's been a part of our lives forever.  Crazy, that.

Emerson at 12 weeks

For the past several nights she has slept "through" the night (meaning, of course, that she sleeps for 7-8 hours in a row, not necessarily waking at normal waking hours though).  I don't care; I'll take it.  I really don't know if I could have made it through another week like last week - I was literally falling asleep at my desk and going to bed every night at 8:30pm.  I remember feeling sleep-deprived with Sam and Abi, but I don't remember quite how painful it was.

Thankfully, aside from what I feel is normal nighttime waking (which may be tapering to an end anyway - wahoo!), Em is an easy, EASY baby.  She rarely cries, and when she does, it's either because she's hungry or dirty.  I never saw a baby who hated to be dirty as much as she does!  When she's tired, she just rubs her eyes and kind of whines a little bit, and you put her in her swing (where she still sleeps) and she quietly dozes off into dreamland.  She loves to lie on her changing table, just looking around, and that is usually where I get the most smiles from her.  Mom got her laughing yesterday by playing patty cake.  Baby laughs are priceless.

Em has been on 2 plane rides so far - one to visit Grandy and Grandpa in Texas, and one to visit Uncle Mike and Aunt Megan in Colorado.  She had her first gondola ride in Colorado and loved it.  I forgot how much work it is to travel with an infant - she pretty much needs her own suitcase - but thankfully (again), she travels great.  Good thing, since she'll be accompanying me and Scott to Hawaii in a few days!  She loves adventure. =)

Supermom with 3 kids on the airplane 

(Scott was right across the aisle, taking the picture)

                            First gondola ride                                                                    Loving every minute