Three Months and Change

The camera got a little too close here, causing some cross-eyed action.

Lily is now 3 months and 2 weeks old, and the time has flown by. Over the past few months she has made amazing strides. She went from sleeping 5 minutes at 2:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. to only waking up for about 5 mintues at 2:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. She now makes noises and talks all the time. She especially loves to talk to us in the morning when we are getting ready for work. We put her on our bed and talk to her while we get dressed. If we leave the room, she definitely knows it and addresses the problem by making a noise that sounds like "hey, hey, hey!" At times she also directs her concerns to her father by yelling "da, da, da!" Luckily, she hasn't figured out how to say "ma" yet, so I am awarded a few extra minutes in front of the bathroom mirror while dad obliges her calls with some nice conversation about what she has ahead of her that day. Most of her answers consist of some agoos, and she also thinks it's very funny to blow bubbles and spit. Her dad tells her it is not very lady-like, but she finds it too entertaining to stop. Another rather uncouth behavior our little one has developed is flashing. She loves to grab the bottom of her dresses and pull them up by her face. We will definitely nip that one in bud. When she isn't grabbing at her dresses, she is reaching for her toys, her mom's necklace, her mom's hair, and just about anything else within her reach. So it is safe to say that our child is moving along in her development pretty smoothly, and we hope to have her kicking the soccer ball by the end of the summer. Now we just have to teach her that she can't use her hands!