3 Months Old Already!

This weekend we went and had Natalie's pictures made, and took our first official "family" shot. One of my co-worker's has a daughter who works at Sear's Photo in town, and she was able to cut us a little bit of a deal. Pictures are so expensive, but I know that it is one thing I will never regret spending the money on. Erica took some great pictures, don't you think? :)





























































There are so many good one's it was hard to choose what hard copy prints we wanted! So we just got a viriaty. :)

She seems to be growing by the minute. This past week her appitite has really increased. I guess she is going through a little growth spurt. The down side to this is that it has been messing with her schedule. Instead of waking up at 6:30ish, she has woken up at 5ish to chow down. You can see from a couple of the pictures how well she is holding her head up! She is a mover. She scoots and wiggles when you hold her and scoots and wiggles when you lay her down and in her crib at night. and she LOVES to kick and kick and kick. I'm sure she'll be crawling before we know it!
The only other news to report is that we said good bye to the sleepy sack on her 3 month birtday. She has been doing pretty good without it. It was AWESOME, and we will definitely be using it again when baby #2 comes along..., but that won't be for a while! I think it really helped her sleep and stay asleep at night - one of the best inventions ever in my opinion. Natalie also doesn't have much interest in her pacifier any more. If it doesn't have anything coming out of it, she doesn't want to have any of it! She is so funny. The only exception to the rule is that she will usually take it for about 30 seconds at a time when we are trying to put her down for the night.
For those of you wonder what a couple who has a new baby does on Valentine's Day, here's a little synopsis:
Wake up at 5, feed Natalie.
Go back to sleep until 9:30 (yea for Saturday!)
9:35 Make Coffee! and feed Natalie
10:00 Start on the eventually 5 loads of laundry that have piled up over the week.
12:00 - Eat mixed berry pancakes (homemade) and sausage at the request of my hubby
12:30 - 4 - Play with Natalie, feed her, do more laundry, clean out old clothes from the closet
4 - Grab a quick shower
4:15 - feed Natalie while Nick cleans up
4:45 - go for a beautiful 2.5 mile walk in one of Lakeland's parks where we saw a bald eagle! Very cool and very beautiful.
6- 7 - head to Lowes and Sams, feed Natalie
The rest of the evening was spent doing our little "tradition" of grilled steaks, bruchetta, and salad with a glass of wine of course, feeding Natalie and putting her down.
We watched half of a movie before Natalie woke up and wanted to eat again. By the time I fed her for the final time, we were both so tired we just went to bed. Maybe we can finish that movie tonight.... :)
It was a different sort of Valentine's Day, but wonderful none the less. There was much love, and much to be thankful for this year. God has truly blessed us.

I hope you felt love this weekend and always. Have a wonderful week!