Emi 2 months and 3 months

Apparently I am a bad mommy and forgot to write a post about Emi at two months. And I had visions of myself scrap booking for her...hah! I looked back in my journal to see what was going on at that time and at two months Emi was smiling more and more, and was cooing a lot. The biggest thing going on at that time, and I think the reason for not posting about her 2 month birthday, was the hours of screaming and crying she went through every night. Jesse was traveling quite a bit around that time and I think I was just trying to survive. I'm pretty sure that is why God created families...because parenting is way too hard to do alone. I have a new respect for single parents.

Emi's 3 month birthday was the magical birthday. It's like she matured over night and became a completely different baby. I was holding her one night and noticed that it was about 7 pm and she was calm. I took advantage of the situation and started the bedtime routine that I had been dreaming of for a couple of months (since her jaundice wore off and she was no longer a peaceful, sleepy baby). I gave her a bath, then a mini lotion massage while singing songs, we had family prayer, then Jesse rocked and sang to her and we put her down and she fell asleep all on her own. We have done this every night since and she will even put herself to sleep if we put her down while she is wide awake and stays that way till about 4am. It's amazing. She is such a good little baby. We've also magically worked into a routine for the morning and now we are working out the afternoon as well. I really think it is because she is so good and has worked it out for herself...maybe she was trying to do that all along and it just took me three months to figure it out. Hopefully I'll do better with our next one because I'll have some sort of clue as to what is going on!

Emi has developed into a sweet, smiley, happy little baby and I feel so blessed to be her mommy.

Look at her grow!

Notice the receding hair line and extra volume on top. So cute!