2 - 3 Months

3 Months

My beautiful 3 month year old baby!

So I started a 2 month post weeks ago but never posted it.  I don’t think I was finished with it but oh well.  It’s now been 3 months!!  So much has changed between month 2 and month 3!  Summer cries WAY less now!  I wouldn’t say that she is easy now but she’s definitely getting easier!  I figured out that some of her night crying was attributed to her being over tired—because I was keeping her up too late!  We’d keep her up till 11 or so because I thought the later I kept her up the less I’d have to get up in the night to feed her.  WRONG!  No matter how late I kept her up she was still up every 1-2 hours during the night and it was terrible.  After 2 ½ months (I’m ashamed to admit that), we finally started getting her ready for bed around 6:30 and into bed and asleep by 7-7:30.  She sleeps SO much better now!  She also cries so much less.  The poor baby was just over tired.  OH and our nap battles?!!  - I HAVE WON!!  I’ve gotten her to take naps!  Oh my gosh it’s so wonderful.  She gets up to eat at 5 AM, back to sleep till 7 or 8 AM, nap at 9 then nap at 12 then nap at 3 then getting ready for bed at 6 and sometimes she will even sleep for over an hour at a time!  I’m able to shower again and get some work done and even dinner cooked!  Things are a little more back to normal although it’s still really hard to leave the house with her. Ahh, still wouldn’t trade it for anything though and I’m so excited about all the things I’m going to get to do with her in her lifetime.  Lots to look forward to….!

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2 Months

Wow it’s been over 2 months already!  As I lay here writing this, baby girl is laying on the pillow next to me.  Her and I are having nap battles.  I keep putting her down to try to get her to nap and she refuses.  Then at night she’s overtired and she scream cries for hours.  She is definitely a challenge.

The past 2 months have been both the best and worst months of my life.  Wait, no, actually back that up to include the pregnant months too.  Very hard.  The first few weeks home with Summer were pretty easy, she didn’t cry at all but I was up all night feeding her.  Then slowly she just started crying all night long.  It got to the point where I was just sleeping on the floor in the room so that Preston could get sleep for work and so that I was closer since I was basically up all night with her anyways.  People weren’t kidding when they kept telling me that I was never going to get any sleep anymore, but then I look at her and her big eyes searching around the room and then she’ll smile at me and my heart melts.  She is so precious.  Even when she’s cry screaming….

So anyways, life is drastically different.  I’m not working much anymore -  a few hours from home and maybe a few hours in the office every other week.  Some days I don’t shower… it never fails that once I get in the shower, Summer will scream so I will jump out.  What else, oh I hardly leave the house much either except for the occasional trip to the grocery store and few trips to church.  Preston and I go out some Saturdays but we don’t get much accomplished when we are feeding Summer and changing her every 2 hours so….  Yes, things are different!   All that aside, I love her so much and I am very blessed –but maybe I won’t mind when she is older and out of all this crying mess.  HA.