3 Months

This beautiful angel is already 3 months old.

She cried non-stop after leaving the hospital and all through her second month. Now, at 3 months we're sailing much more smoothly. One thing we have been thankful for is that as of 6 weeks old, she has been sleeping through the night largely with the help of the miracle blanket. If you have a new baby, that thing really does work like a miracle. She drinks about 120 ml (4 oz.) every 3 hours during the day, mostly breastmilk but also sometimes 1 bottle of formula during the day. After being awake for 2 hours she gets fussy and can pretty easily be rocked, walked, or bounced to sleep. She typically goes to sleep at night around 8:00 PM and whoever is up latest has the job of waking Lilly up, changing her diaper and topping her off with a bottle. This gets her through until 6 or 7 in the morning.

Lilly is extremely aware of her surroudings. Sometimes overly sensitive to sound, there is a large variety of things that will upset her and get her screaming. These include me yelling at Cooper or Peter sneezing. (Although, I must admit Peter is a violent sneezer.) Her big, blue watchful eyes follow anyone who is in the room and she thoroughly enjoys watching Cooper and Kayla around the house. If she sees her daddy across the room, she breaks out in a beautiful, dimply smile.

Her smile is just gorgeous, and she uses it to charm all her doctors and nurses. She has little hints of dimples on each cheek, much like Peter did as a baby. But she doesn't really look like Peter or me or Cooper. We are still waiting to see who she grows to look like.

Like Cooper was, she is a champ sucker. She loves her MAM pacifiers and if that isn't around she will stick one, two, or four fingers in her mouth and tries to get the whole fist in at times. If the paci falls out of her mouth, she will turn or tilt her head to try to get it back in her self and is actually often successful. She has recently started sticking her tongue way out, which is really funny looking.

She snorts a lot when she cries, which makes it hard not to laugh when she is upset.

She has recently started making little coo's and reaching for toys over her. And just today, she started rolling from her back to her front (can't go the other way yet) and has done it several times already.

Even though it is mommy who changes the most diapers and always bathes and applies a new colostomy bag, she is a Daddy's girl through and through. From the start she has always been calmer in his arms.

Lilly has her next surgery next week, but let's hope that after that her next 3 months are a little more calm and don't involve any more hospital visits!

Here's an abundance of photos from the first 3 months. Sorry there are so many, but I just don't know how to edit and I know I never get tired of looking at these sweet faces.