just ticking by ...

Baby Girl is getting bigger ...

So apparently, I can only write blog posts when Alice gets one month older ... my last three have only been about this same topic!  Other things happen to us and we are busy doing a lot around here ... I just haven't sat down to write about it! I'll try to be better about that this month.

But ... since I'm already here ... this will be a blog about how the months are just ticking by and Alice has already reached 3 months!

May 7, 2014

Length: 25 inches (90th percentile)

Weight: 14 1/2 lbs. (90th percentile)

She went through a bottle transformation this past month. At the beginning of 2 months, she began to dislike her one bottle/day feed.  I could barely get her to take 2 ounces.  It took about two weeks of persistence with the bottle ... one feed per day during her most awake feed ... to get her to accept that this was inevitable.  One day, she just started drinking down her bottle like it was no problem!  I was so thankful!  I was very tired of having her fight it.  

Other than that ... it's business as usual around here.  Colton keeps hinting at wanting a baby brother ... and by hinting, I mean flat-out telling me so.  Aside from saying that he would like to save his planes for his baby brother when he grows big like himself, he told me he wants five babies.  I said, "I have three already."  He said, "Yeah, but I think five would be good.  Ok, Mom ... four is good, too."  I have asked him why he wants another baby ... he said that he needs a brother to teach him how to play Mario and to play with him. That kid!  He is full of it.

Khloe has been telling me all about the princess party she wants to have when she turns three on "Eptember 21" (as she says).  She is very excited to turn 3 ... she talks about it all of the time.  She is especially excited to start ice skating with Bubby.  I think she feels like she's in limbo right now.  She feels big enough to do things with Colton, but her age keeps her from doing them.  She, also, has been talking all about getting a big-girl bike ... with princesses on it, of course. 

Alice started sleeping through the night shortly after she turned two months old.  She gave me a night here and there for a few weeks and then one day ... she just slept 12 hours.  That has been her mantra for nearly three weeks now, and I have been loving it.  Just in time for me to start up at the gym ... which began this week!  It was a fabulous week of working out!  I have really missed the gym, and I am glad to be back in the old routine.  I am hoping that in a month or two, I'll see some healthy results.  I'd like to do 3 days of Zumba, one day of Body Flow (yoga/Pilates), and one day of cycling.  All with some weights added throughout ... I may do cycling and BodyPump (weightlifting class) rotations.  I have felt great this week ... sore and loving it!

Next week, we have a lot of fun MOMs Club activities planned ... and as per usual, we will be hitting up the pool.  It's that time of year again!  Summer is here ... it's hot ... and the pool is a great place to lunch and swim.  It's difficult with Allie being so small this summer, but we'll still enjoy it as much as possible.  I know next summer will be much easier ... Alice will be able to run around and play, too.  

Stay cool!