13 weeks postpartum, Maia's 3 months old!

It's been about a month since I last posted, and some of you have been asking for an update :)

If I could sum up the month in a couple of words they would be: breastfeeding, growth spurt, talk, and body control :)

Maia has been growing like crazy the last month or so.   At her two month appointment, on June 3rd, she was 10 pounds 2 ounces, gaining about 3/4 of an ounce a day.  That would mean she's about 12 or so pounds right now, but we haven't had a chance to check on that.  I would weigh myself first without and then with her to find the difference, but our scale's battery died so once I find that information out I'll share it with you, since her next official weigh in isn't until August 12th at about 4 and half months.

She went through a pretty rough growth spurt at about 11 weeks old, for everyone in the house.   She wanted to eat ALL the time (like every hour) and would only sleep in small increments, only wanting to be fed again.  This went on for about a week.  Little did we know that this actual was starting the day of my brother's wedding, which accounted for her fussy behavior that day :)   Speaking of which, her first wedding outside the womb (her first two were at 10 weeks prego at Katie and Mikey's wedding, and at 6 months prego at Chris and Erica's wedding).  If you remember from my earlier blogs, I had found her dress back during Christmas time, since I knew their wedding colors were red, and it's too hard to find that color during this time of year.   She looked so cute, especially with the Hello Kitty headband I received from my friend Jessica :)

Our little family at the wedding, excuse my dress that decided to gather in the front :) 

She ended up sleeping in Heather's arms

Since father's day was the day after the wedding, we had a quiet day at home and then with Josh's family.   We didn't know it at the time, but the growth spurt had started this weekend, and she spent most of father's day very fussy, and eating constantly-which makes for a tired and sore mama!  Due to the lack of sleep and frequency of feeding, we stayed home all week.

We recieved some gifts from my cousin Melissa-she knows me and my hello kitty addiction LOL

Thank you so much Melissa!!!!

She has recently realized that she can use her arms to grab items and bring them closer to her.  She has a couple of toys that she likes to play with like this :) 

We've started taking her on walks around the neighborhood as well and she loves to look at the world around her :) 

When propped up she can sit by her self for a little while :)

Up to fairly recently Maia has been sleeping in her pack in play crib that sits out in the front room, when we are out there as well, or more frequently in her monkey rock n play that we could bring in our room fairly easily (one of our most used baby items, thank you Grandma and Grandpa Stime!)  Being first time parents, we liked to have her near us, and wanted her nearby when she cried.  However, we wanted to get her used to sleeping in her own for a couple of reasons: 

• Even though she is far from the 25 pound limit for the pack and play, she has more power in her legs now and can push her self up into a laying down standing position. 
• I can see that she wants to stretch her legs out and the rock and play keeps them in a squatted frog position. The crib will be better for her back and legs.  

I want her to get used to it, so the crib isn't such a scary, foreign place when she's older.  So far she has slept in it a couple of nights and for some of her naps.  She put up a fight the first couple of times, but seems to be getting used to it.  Thank goodness for modern technology that gives us peace of mind.  She has a video and audio monitor and a sensor that will alert us if she doesn't move or breath every 20 seconds.   I love that if she's in her crib I can log on anywhere in the world and be able to her and see her in her crib.

video feed of her room :)

Through a former co worker we also got some fun little items for her: an activity mat and a little bounce chair (and a bassinnett for visiting for long periods at the grandparents houses :))  She loves her little bouncer because she can kick freely and her activity mat is not only fun, but has been helping her with tummy time.   She can lift her head and will move her legs but is not strong enough to do it all yet.  

Kicking in her bouncer

Her activity mat

She is also going through the stage of wanting to be held A LOT or sitting with me or Josh.  Even as I write this blog, I have already breast fed and had her sitting on my lap on a pillow while she watches me type and we "talk".  Speaking of which (no pun intended), she has tried to reply to us talking to her with little voiced out sounds.   I can never post videos on here so I will put it on Facebook soon.  It's really cute :)

Helping mommy blog :)

Maia also took her first real trip to a store and loved taking in all the colors, sounds, sights, and people at Target (her first trip of many I imagine :)) She was asleep in the picture :) 

Lately she loves to smile while sticking out her tongue and making little sly smiles.  I took this picture when her onesie got stuck on her head :) 

So Maia is now 3 months old!  It's hard to believe that much time has gone by already!  We love to watch her grow and excited where our "Maia adventures" will take us :)