Adelynn- 4 Months

Our big girl is now four months old and has made some fun and exciting changes since last month.

Lets just start by saying that a few days after I posted her 3 month update about the terrible sleeping, something must have clicked because this girly is now the greatest sleeper I ever could have hoped for! She sleeps absolutely amazing during the night--sometimes 10 hours! (On a bad day she sleeps 5 1/2.) Typically she will wake up at 6am, eat, and go right back to sleep. Sometimes she isn't tired and I just lay her in her bed, I go back to sleep, and when she gets tired and wants me to swaddle her, she will softly call out for me and I wrap her up, nurse her for a minute and she is right out. She also puts herself to sleep sometimes! I don't know what clicked, but boy am I grateful! (We are still giving her the cat nip once, rarely twice at night and none during the day. We aren't sure if this is what's doing the trick, but we don't want to mess with a good thing, so we are just going to continue giving it to her!)   She also sleeps and plays great during the day. Literally zero sleeping problems now!

 Sometimes she sleeps like a caterpillar

Sometimes she sneaks her little arm/s out

Sometimes she puts herself to sleep. Such a good girl. 

She weighs almost 11 1/2 pounds. She is still a teensy weensy but if you look at the pictures here you can tell she's chunking up nicely. She looks very healthy and I'm not concerned with her weight gain at all. She eats great. 
 
Loves her bath and her Shark Girl towel! Okay... maybe I just love her towel...

Loves to smile! 

Has the prettiest blue eyes! I'm hoping they stay but it doesn't look promising :(

Look at that cute little boy back there posing for a photo bomb!

 Love love loves her Daddy

 She is such a perfect little baby. I really can't complain about anything now! Those first 3 months were absolutely killer but she is doing great now. I hope she stays this way! We love you, Lady Bug!

Just The Two Of Us

I seriously just love these two together. 

From the beginning

Day One

(We asked him to hold her head up a little better... he took it literally.)

I never could have imagined how much love two tiny humans could share for each other but every single day I see them grow closer together and I watch their bond become stronger. I love the opportunity I have to be their mama.

 I am so in love with these babies.

Adelynn- 3 Months

This Saturday, our little teensy weensy turned three months old! I am so sad she's growing up, but also SO happy at the same time. I am not a good newborn Mommy. I really struggle. We are hoping things get a little easier around here because they really just haven't been letting up. We definitely have our hands full! But at the end of the day, (or maybe at the beginning of the day because at the end of the day I am so exhausted and just want to sleep) we are so thankful for these two little munchkin blessings. We truly are so lucky and I just have to remind myself of that when things are rough.

Updates for the Lady Bug include:

Started smiling and letting out tiny laughs. This happened literally like... 2 days after I posted her 2 month update saying she wasn't doing anything!

Is getting on a better day schedule, 3 naps, and 3 plays each day

Is worse and worse and worse at sleeping (at night, she sleeps great during the day). Oh please please please please let this change. We have literally tried everything we can think of. We recently have found some peace in giving her some Cat Nip Tea before bed and throughout the day (WHAAAA? Yeah if you didn't think I was nuts before, you probably do now. But Cat Nip is just an herb very similar to Chamomile and is extremely mild and safe for babies. It acts similarly to Sleepy Time Tea for adults. Serious.(Thank you Sarah for being my angel and bringing me some!!!)) And that works well SOMETIMES. But it's not magic. Oh... and she is always trying to sneak her little arm out!!

She weighs about 10 1/2 pounds and still eats great. No problems there.

Chunker Doodle!

She's just a very happy baby. She really doesn't cry unless you know... she's hungry or cold or something like that and she really would be the perfect baby if she just could figure out her sleep. But hey, I think she's pretty perfect anyway. She's even cute when she's sad.

Drama MAMA!

Loves to snuggle her daddy. But... who wouldn't?

And she constantly has dirty hands! Haha! This is one of my very favorite things because we never had this issue with Logan. She always hides tons of lint in her little hands. I think it's so cute!

She is such a little sweetie and we love her so much. She is really teaching us so many things about love, patience, respect, consistency, and millions more things! I love having a little girl! She is my sunshine... in the middle of the night ;)

Adelynn's First Walk

I can't believe it took us this long to talk Adelynn out for a walk. We have definitely taken her a bunch of places but not JUST to walk. I love to go on walks. We went out on a little trail behind our house on Sunday after Stake Conference and took Logan to a little play place in another neighborhood.

It was a little bright for her

Here are some really short videos of the day. I have the Vine app on my phone which is a lot like Instagram and it lets you share 7 second videos with friends. That's why these are so short.

Addie was pretty tired after our weekend and slept great! Thank goodness!

 I just love my family. So, so happy.