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There are back-dated posts below for Mother's Day, 3 months and Memorial Day.

PJ Pic

This was one of my favorite sleepers of hers, courtesy of Aunt Kristy. She has now outgrown it, and I'm so sad.

Memorial Day and First Dip in the Pool

For Memorial Day, we visited Grandpa and Grandma Connie at their house and Caroline took her first dip in the pool. She mostly liked it, as long as Daddy was holding her or touching her. She's still too young for sunscreen, so she stayed in the shade and only spent about 20 minutes in the pool. Then she cuddled with Grandpa for a bit.

3 Months

Our little Caroline is 3 months old! She is growing like a weed and we're loving it. She's been in her 3-6 month sized clothes for a month now, and since Mommy isn't going back to work right now, we're still hanging out a lot at home.

Sick

Our poor baby has been sick this week. She contracted the sniffles a few weeks ago, but it seemed to only occur at night with much improvement during the day. Since her daddy has the same problem, I didn't make a big deal until it started to get worse. Sunday and Monday nights her sleep was much interrupted due to lack of being able to breathe and Tuesday morning we took her to the pediatrician. They diagnosed her with a cold on top of a cold and told us to keep an eye on fever, etc. She seems to be feeling better now, thought I think we both have some cabin fever from being stuck in the house all week. The weather has been yucky out and I didn't want to risk having her out when it began to rain.

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She flopped herself over like this this morning

And this weekend she got to wear her first shoes!

Rollover

Yes, that's right. Caroline had her first experience rolling over tonight.

I had put her down on the floor on her tummy and gone into the other room. I her her "say" something, as she often does and I responded back, letting her know I was close by. A few minutes later I heard a quick sound that must have been her surprise because when I walked back in to check on her, she was lying on her back, slightly off the blanket I'd laid her on. Guess we
ll have to be more careful of where she in from now on... She didn't repeat it when I put her back on her tummy, but who knows when it will happen again?

In addition, she has been sleeping 7-10 hours without waking to nurse nearly every night for the past week. She still wakes to find her paci and sometimes fusses enough that I have to go in and help her locate it, but she's become quite a good sleeper, knock on wood!! She's averaging about 11 hours of night time sleep and this morning slept in until 8:30!

First Mother's Day

We spent the morning at church, where they did a nice little ceremony honoring the new mothers. Then we went to Gramma's house and spent the day with Gramma and Papa, Gigi, and Oma. It was so much fun!
Mommy Loves this outfit. It even has "faux" shoes!

Summer Job

As many of you have become aware, raising a baby is an expensive proposition. This, coupled with Christiana's maternity leave, has left us with little choice: Caroline must get a job! Her English skills are not that great yet, so speaking English must not be a requirement. Also, she has a tendency to sleep throughout the day, so some place that provides a fast-paced work environment and plenty of caffeine would also be desirable. Lastly, her intensive feeding schedule would make a flexible schedule a must.

After much consideration, we FINALLY hit on the perfect option.............








"Welcome to Starbucks. What can I get started for you?"











(Apron courtesy of Brian Bickner. Thanks!)

Nighttime

This week we've been experimenting with the nighttime schedule. If she is fed after 9:00, she typically doesn't wake up until somewhere past 2AM. One night we stretched to late in the 3:00 hour and she only ate once... holding off eating until what I consider to be a reasonable hour of the morning (6:45)for waking. Chuck had to do some 5 AM comfort, but that is normal - he probably gets up with her in the 5:00 hour about 50% of the time, and she doesn't need to eat then, just be comforted back to sleep.

Another night she woke up howling at 2 due to a painful BM and I got up and changed her diaper. I picked her up after the diaper change, as per usual and started the routine of getting ready to feed her, but once I was ready, she was sound asleep across my lap on the Boppy. I wrapped her back into her swaddle and she slept until sometime in the 4:00 hour. I would love to drop one of her nighttime feedings, and I'd prefer the 4AM one, but if she wants to skip the one on the middle, that would work, too.

Our only problem now seems to be the BMs that give her so much trouble. She's not really constipated - it still comes out normal, etc. but it bothers her so to go through it, for whatever reason.

We're battling lots of gas. She gets Mylicon drops several times a day, which help, but don't take away the problem completely. And it is becoming more and more difficult to burp her... Chuck, however, has discovered that often some tummy time really helps her get enough pressure on her tummy to help move it along. She's taken to taking a nice long nap after her first feed of the "day" when I get out of bed and she typically does it on her tummy on the living room floor.




I bought her this outfit for Chuck - it says "Dad's Team" across the front and while she looks a little "boyish" in it, it is SO cute on her. There is a baseball on her butt, too. Really cute.