Ivy is 3 months

Well, it's official, Ivy is no longer a "newborn." And that is perfectly okay with me! I love watching my kids grow and do new things. And I love it when a baby can hold their own head up. :) I am also partial to sleeping, and she is getting better about that all the time.

This little girl is so happy and laid back. People comment all the time about how smiley she is. All you have to do is smile and talk to her and she will give you a crinkle-nosed open-mouth smile. It is so sweet. She loves to talk to anyone who will listen. She likes to just look around and observe. She especially loves it when Ezra gives her attention, unless he is running right over the devil when singing "roll the gospel chariot along" and Ivy's head gets in the way of his fist. Then she is not a happy camper. Totally hypothetical situation.

I would say Ivy is a really good sleeper. She is used to laying down awake and will put herself to sleep most of the time, unless she is overly tired and then she won't have it. But she is also perfectly fine with being held and rocked, so if I wait too long to put her down, I will just hold her for a little catnap. She has also slept all the way through the night about 4 times, and most other nights she wakes up around 4 a.m. so she is almost making it through the night. I really don't mind her waking up, because I can feed her pretty quickly and she goes right back to sleep. I usually wake her up at 8 a.m. because most days we have somewhere we need to be by 9. Her naps vary from one hour to sometimes 3 hours. At this point Ezra took pretty short naps and was still up multiple times a night to eat, so Ivy is a piece of cake compared to Ezra.

She is a good eater. I feed her anywhere from 5 to 7 times a day, depending on if she wakes up at night or not. She goes about 3-4 hours between feedings during the day. She will nurse or take a bottle.

Ivy is also pretty good in the car. Sometimes she gets tired of sitting there, but once again, it's nothing like Ezra. Longtime blog readers will remember that for the first few months of Ezra's life he HATED. HATED being in the carseat. No fun. I avoided going anywhere that I didn't have to go, and if we went grocery shopping it was out of the carseat and into the front carrier. On long car trips, Ivy will sleep most of the time unless she is hungry or just a little restless. 

I don't know how much Ivy weighs but she is a good size. We'll go in a few weeks for her 4 month appointment but my guess is she's somewhere around 13 or 14 pounds. She's wearing size 2 diapers and on the second set of snaps in her cloth diapers. She could stand to move up to size 3 diapers though. She is also in 3-6 month clothes or 6 month size (like Carter's). No shoes fit her yet though...she has tiny, skinny feet and long toes. Sadly, she is losing her hair.

This month Ivy went to Bible class for the first time and has been once since. The teachers have told us that she does great and seems to like all the singing. I pray that she continues to enjoy going to Bible class like her big brother does. We also visited my mom's house for a few days and Ivy enjoyed lots of attention from granny, gramme, her aunt Erin and cousins. I'll blog about that later.

That's about all I can think of for her third month. She is such a sweet joy and we love her so much.