3 Months!

Today is Elliott's 3 month birthday! She is already a fourth of the way through her first year of life! Unbelievable! She didn't get a great night's sleep last night, so pictures weren't as cheerful as they could have been, but she cracked a couple smiles for me. I am so in love with this little girl. She makes me so happy. I love waking up to see her sweet face every day. 

I can't say that Elliott has hit any big milestones this month. She is definitely way more smiley. We love to find new ways to make her smile. She hasn't quite laughed yet, but she is so, so close. She takes in big gulps of air and does these little high-pitched squeals. It's adorable. 

This month we did sleep training. Well, we are still in the middle of training, but what a difference that is making! She can now put herself to sleep without her binky. This has changed our lives. We now do our bedtime routine, put in her crib (awake) and she just turns over and falls asleep. Now naps...that's a different story. We are still working on that. Still going a little rough, but we're getting there.

She loves to be sitting or standing up and almost always refuses to lay flat on her back (unless she is going to sleep). When we lay her on her back she is in a permanent sit-up position. She is always doing little baby crunches. It's adorable. I even got a couple pictures of it today. 

She is still growing away, of course. She absolutely loves to nurse. It's kind of ridiculous. I think most of it is just a comfort thing (since she loves to suck on things so much) but man, she is hilarious. As soon as she is full and breaks latch she starts to whine. And so she'll latch back on, but realize she's full and break latch again. It's hilarious. Then I pull her off and start to burp her and she does this whiney moan until she calms down. She would nurse all day if I let her.

She is still so close to grabbing things. She definitely focuses in on toys and objects more now than ever before and you can tell she's really trying to get her hand to reach things. She doesn't quite have it yet though. That's about it for now! 

Here are pictures from her 3 month photo shoot!

[Just doing crunches. No big deal.]

[Ha! This one cracks me up!]

[more crunches]