Three Months

Hard to believe, but Mia is already three months old! She is smiling up a storm, "talking" to us a ton, and she is starting to grab at things (we think she finally noticed her hands the other day). She went to her "2 month" check up (however it was at 11 weeks of age, our Dr.'s office gets booked up and appointments are already behind). Mia weighed 12 lbs. 4 oz., which is the 64th % for her age, and she is 23 inches tall, 50th %. She had three shots, which she did not like, but overall she did wonderfully and she has a clean bill of health.

I also decided to give her rice cereal in her last bottle before bed last night. The Dr. actually lectured us at our appointment about making sure we're not feeding her rice cereal yet (which we weren't at that time...), he had all kinds of reasons why it's not good for them. It actually made me mad, especially when he told us he asks parents "who is the cereal really for, you or the baby?" The answer he was looking for was "for the parents" because we think we can feed them the cereal and we get to sleep longer...hence parents are being selfish (the nerve of us to want to sleep). I kept my mouth shut but I had some things going through my head that I wish I would have told him. First of all, a cranky, tired mom is not a fun mom to be around and that doesn't make the world nice for the baby. Seriously, after not having one full nights sleep in over 12 weeks (the last month of pregnancy is brutal on sleep as well), you need sleep! So it basically egged me on to give her the cereal. I had kind of forgotten about it until he mentioned it. I gave her the cereal last night and she slept from 10:30pm to 6:30am. If you are reading this and thinking I'm a horrific mother, rest assured, Mia is in a wonderful mood today, smiling at me like crazy and she LOVED that bottle last night. She gobbled up that whole thing and drifted off to sleep in record time. Not a peep out of her and I feel better than I have in forever.

Start of Summer


The weather is finally getting consistently nice so I feel it's safe to say, summer has begun. Too bad I go back to work next week! We kind of kicked off summer by going to the Grand Rapids "Arts Festival" downtown last weekend. It's nothing too exciting actually, food tents, music, and a few activities for kids. Carter's still a little young for most of the kids activities, but we still had fun walking around sampling the food and listening to some of the bands. Carter really wanted to find some games he could "put money in and play" but there were no such things and it was hard to get that through to him. We tried to have him paint a picture in the kid art area, but he didn't want to do it (the kids have to enter this roped off area without parents and a helper person sets them up to paint...he didn't like leaving us). Mia had a ton of fun, we put her in the baby Bjorn facing out and she loved looking around at everything.


We didn't take many pictures at the festival, here is one of Mia in the baby Bjorn.

Also, Dave went out to mow the yard the other day and came upon this tiny baby deer! She was the smallest deer we'd ever seen. She was laying in our field, looking like she was only a few days old and unfortunately we didn't see her mom anywhere. She got up and moved once so we know she could walk and she didn't seem injured in any way. Carter loved posing with her and he insisted we give her some carrots in case she was hungry (she didn't touch them). We think her mom came to pick her up later that afternoon because the next day she was gone. That's the story we like anyway.

GO WINGS!!!

Crush

Our good friends, Jim and Betsy, have three adorable kids (Tyler, 6, Drew, 4, and Kayley, almost 3) and we get together with them often to hang out and let the kids play together. Carter has always loved playing with them, he looks up to Tyler and Drew and he has a blast roughhousing and running around with them. Kayley also gets in on all the action, with two older brothers she is right at home playing with all boys. We got together with them a few weekends ago and Kayley and Carter seemed inseparable all of a sudden. Carter wanted to sit by Kayley and play by her side the whole time they were at our house. They drove Carter's jeep together, played ball together, and never left each other's sides! We love Kayley (she is also our goddaughter), and we think it is adorable that they seem to have a huge crush on each other.


Carter and Kayley enjoying a popsicle together.




They had no idea we were still snapping pictures...




The whole gang (notice Carter is basically on Kayley's lap!)