Emma is 3 months

Actually she’s now 4 months. But for the sake of keeping things chronological I’m posting these before I post her 4 month pictures. So you’ll just have to deal with it :)

 

Emma, at 3 months:

• you have deep blue eyes that are so expressive
• you love your Momma and get a big smile whenever she looks your way.
• you still won’t take a binky – we’ve kind of given up on the bottle thing for now
• you have discovered your hands and love to chew on them. We like to call them your “hams”
• you wake up once during the night and usually sleep until about 7am
• you are a fussy baby at night. During the day you’re super pleasant. But come nightfall, it’s a different story.
• you like to be held so your head is up and you can see what’s going on around you

Emma’s 3 month stats:

(no check-up this month so these are home measurements)

Weight: 10.8 (according to the bathroom scale)

Height: 22 in

Head: 15.25 in

• Whenever you get really excited, you pull your hands up

Emma, you’re smiles and big eyes make our day. You are truly a blessing and we’re so fortunate to call you our own.

Antsy Pantsy

With all the warm weather we’ve been having, Matt has been so antsy to be outside, working on projects, getting dirty. Living in an apartment doesn’t really provide what he needs so we called up Daniel and Jessica and told them to think of some projects around the house they wanted to get done and that we were coming up for the weekend.

First outdoor project was to clean up their front yard and trim their big pine tree.

The girls were excited to get in on the action too.

Lily and Tessa threw their golf ball into the prickly bush, both trying to muster enough courage to reach in and get it.

The babies hung out on the porch.

Emma really loved the nice cool breeze. She slept the whole time we were outside, and then some.

We took all the kids for a walk to a nearby playground to let the girls run around.

Fun times. Their front yard looks a ton better. So glad we were able to get our hands dirty and help them out.

The Riverwalk

When the weather turns warm, we can’t help but want to be outside. We went for a walk downtown down the riverwalk. The city was draining is to clean out all the gunk in the bottom.

Finding some duckies

It will be fun when they have the river boats and paddle boats up and running.

We had lunch at a really cute little café. Lily’s lunch consisted mostly of cheetos.

We also got a chocolate cookie. Lily LOVED it! Her cheeks and chin loved it too.

We had to stop for a bit so I could feed Emma and Lily decided to pass the time by crawling under the park bench. Yep, there’s our girl with chocolate all over her face and dirt all over her shirt.

march randomness

Keeping this little one entertained (without having to be supervised constantly) has been my goal lately. I got this idea from pinterest recently. She loved squeezing the cotton balls and transferring them back and forth. After about 10 minutes though, she decided to start distributing cotton balls all throughout the room. But at least it kept her busy for those few minutes!

Little Miss Independent eating her yogurt.

Can’t seem to get close enough to the TV. She sure does love her movies.

Whenever a box comes in the mail, Lily instantly wants to get inside it. Silly Girl!

This box came with my binder for an online photography workshop I’m taking. I’m currently in the second week and absolutely loving it. I’ve been wanting to take this class for years and have loved reading the instructor’s blog. Matt urged me to finally sign up for it and I did! If anyone is wanting to take a class on how to take better shots of your everyday life then you have to look into this one. It’s a little pricey, but so far I’ve been so impressed on how involved the teacher is and the lessons are already making me think differently about how I take pictures to make them more meaningful. As soon as I get caught up on all my pictures (I’m about a month behind, eek!) hopefully you’ll be able to see a difference in my pictures.

Snapshots of a Good Life 

 

Some sisterly bonding time before heading outside. It truly warms my heart when I see them enjoying each other.

Playing outside at our pathetic little playground at our apartment complex.

Poor little Emma had to lay between my legs since there wasn’t any other shade to be found.

Picking up the rocks.

And then transferring them to the grass.

And for good measure, a few down the shirt. naturally.

Just hangin’ out.

Poor girl can’t do a whole lot on our playground. Good thing she enjoys “flying” on the swings.