Three Months

Today, January 1, 2013, Juliet is three months old.  She has changed so much in three months that it's hard to believe.  Actually, she's changed so much in the past month alone, that's hard to believe.  In the past month, she has:

• Started sleeping through the night pretty much every night
• Discovered her voice and begun talking to us, Ninja, herself, the tv, and toys
• Begun drooling so much that I have to keep a bib on her when she's awake or change her onesie every twenty minutes
• Started sticking her fists in her mouth any chance she gets
• Gotten even stronger and started spending lots of time in her Bumbo seat sitting up
• Discovered how fun her activity mat is and spent lots of time pulling on the rattle, kicking the whale, and looking at herself in the mirror
• Become an expert escape artist and gotten out of every attempt to swaddle her in the past two weeks

Hanging out on her activity mat

Playing in the Bumbo seat

Let's talk about this escape artist thing she's got going on.  We have swaddled her from Day 1, and it's been awesome.  The tighter she was swaddled, the better she slept.  And then, she started kicking out of the swaddle.  After that, she started kicking out and then scooting herself around on her back in her crib.  Now, she kicks out, gets her arms out, and moves pretty much wherever she'd like in the crib.  I've tried putting her down without swaddling her, but she won't stay asleep that way.  According to what I read, this is normal, and the best way around it is to start trying to wean her off the swaddle.  At this point, we just swaddle one arm in.  Hopefully, we'll be swaddle-free soon.

Juliet after a full escape and rotating herself (somehow!) 90 degrees clockwise

Passed out in my lap