3 Months!

I'm not sure I believe that it's already been 3 months since sweet baby Olivia came into our lives. I remember being pregnant with her, and being so anxious about her arrival. Not because of the delivery itself, but because of what I was worried it would do to our family. We always knew that we wanted more than one baby, but I couldn't help but ache for Liam whose whole world was about to change. And he had no say in it. But she came, and we all loved her more than we knew we could. Now, none of us can remember life before she was here. Liam just adores everything about her. He is exactly what a big brother should be, and my heart just melts watching the two of them interact. He loves to make her smile and laugh, and she loves to smile and laugh at him. They are the perect pair. My perfect little babies.

Olivia is the cutest, sweetest, most relaxed baby in the world (besides Liam of course!). If I knew all of my babies would be like her I would have 5 more! A few things about Olivia at 3 months:
- She found her feet on 6/21. Cutest.Thing.Ever!

 

- She smiles all the time, and has the most adorable baby laugh.

- She eats 5-6 times a day (3-6 oz at a time)

- Goes to sleep between 8 and 8:30, and wakes up between 5:30 and 6:30. During the week she stays awake and goes to school. On the weekend, she eats, and usually goes back to sleep until about 8:45.

- She loves to lay on her playmat.  She bats her little hands at all the toys, and make so much noise. The first few times she was really voacl on the playmat, I thought she was crying. So I rushed over to her only to find her smiling and laughing. She was just having a really good time!

- She has started using her Bumbo chair. I've only put her in it a handful of times, but she seems to like it.

Here's a little comparison.....Liam in the bumbo at 3 months.....

I feel like time is going faster with Olivia than it did with Liam, but the difference is that this time around, I'm not willing all of the next steps to come so fast. When Liam was little, I couldn't wait for him to roll over, eat solid food, sit on his own, crawl, eat table food, walk. I feel like I almost didn't enjoy each stage as much as I could have because I was so excited for the next stage to come. Now that I know just how fast they grow, I want Olivia to stay tiny and helpless forever. I'm soaking up all of baby time I can, because before I know it she will be getting her learners permit, and going to prom. And I don't want to miss one single second of her.

Honestly, can you blame me?







Conversations over dinner...

Mike had to go to Boston this week and since I hate staying home by myself, my mom decided to come stay with me. Today my Aunt Joanie came in town so Russ drove her up to our house and we all went to dinner. Somehow we got on the topic of movies and what kid of movies/tv shows we all like and our conversation went like this:

Aunt Joanie: I love the show Camelot!

Me: I'm not a big fan of those kind of shows, but Mike loves them!

Russ: Whenever a movie comes on that's anything like Lord of the Rings, Debbie and I always say "this is a 'mike' movie"

Mom: I love movies from the 50's

Liam: I like Barney.

Yes you do sweet boy. And I love you so much :)

I'm still amazed at how much he really does listen to the conversations that we have around him. I had no idea he was even paying attention!

Bedtime Stories....

Liam is such a chatterbox these days, espeically right before bed. Tonight our conversation went like this:

Liam: Hey Mommy.....Mimi says "Hiya Sweetheart"

Me: That's really nice. Which Mimi?

Liam: Mimi from Philadelphia. She lives there.


I loved this conversation because Liam was talking about Russ's mom Edythe who lives in Philadelphia. He hasn't seen her in a while, but whenever mom and Russ are over, Russ will call her and Liam loves to talk to her on the phone. And he obviously thinks about her a lot....even if he hasn't talked to her in a while. Her next visit is in July and we can't wait to see her :)