Noah @ 3 months

12 lbs 3 oz

24 inches long

has the cutest little cheeks now!

NOAH:

• is definitely more vocal about what he does/does not like  - and is starting to realize he does NOT like hiccups

• still LOVES being talked to more than toys and will coo at you to get your attention

• supplementing has done wonders for his sleep habits (and Mom's sanity!). still not sleeping normally but doing MUCH better (hallelujah!!)

• did FABULOUSLY on his first plane flight(s) at 12 weeks. 

• figured out he can suck on his hand and now tries to stick the whole thing in his mouth.

• rubbed off most of his newborn hair and now has awesome old man hair at the back of his head

• is just barely starting to get chunky and have the little lines around his wrists and feet!

• has now met almost all of his extended family (and we are so grateful you all came to his blessing!)

MOM (and Dad?): 

• This month has been full of vacation/visitors for us, so it has really gone by quickly. We are sad to not have any planned for awhile, but excited that winter is on its way out. (about time!)

• Buying new shirts helps make you accept your post-partum body more, but with spring coming, so do my plans to start getting healthy. I definitely have eaten too much sugar this vacation. 

• I am still learning the balance between taking care of Noah while still managing to take care of myself. Definitely something I have to figure out each day. 

• I am terrrrrrified of how our flights home will go tomorrow. They are all daytime flights so NOT when la bebe will be sleeping.

• Also, I need a haircut. And inspiration. Anyone have any advice/ideas?

And Noah is crying so that is the end of this post.

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A few things.....

1. I think I am extremely witty when I write posts at 3 am before the crack of dawn and the return of my sanity slash filter in my head. Then the light comes and my self-confidence returns to a normal "95% on a good day"......

2. This maaay be another post later (yay, so exciting!) where I can (unnecessarily) disclose more (unwanted) details but I have yet to decide what to do about feeding/formula-ing with my tiny distracted drowsy eater who would much rather party instead. The convenience of the bottle + other snags along the way make it sound so lovely and enticing to just give up on a la natural, olden time way of sustaining a child. BUT. My sentimental heart hasn't fully accepted that I would have to give up bonding that way with le bébé. So here I sit, still doing both and I'm strangely okay with my indecisiveness for now. Is that even something I need to decide? Or do I just overthink everything? Probably. 

3. David is out of town tonight and the bed is lonely. But I was just out of town for 3 nights. So obviously he trumps me in the who-has-the-more-right-to-complain-department but we both know I'm a bigger baby aaaand there we go. The bed is lonely. 

4. David had a layover in Philadelphia and had a Philly cheesesteak for dinner. Because when in Philly, right? I replied that I had a bowl of raisin bran and when in Hartford?...........turns out he had that twice this week while I was gone. Truth. In Hartford we eat the exciting raisin bran. 

5. I said goodbye to the NY house again today after going down with Mom to paint a couple rooms/clean up some stuff to make it look nicer. And hopefully it sells soon and that was really goodbye for reals. Anyone looking for a home in the NY area? Available to buy or rent now, I think.... So send any prospectors this way because we would hate to have them keep searching in this cold weather when we have a lovely updated home waiting to be occupado. 

  

From the kitchen window this afternoon. He looked right at me then gracefully leapt away. Leapt is a word, right?