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3 Months

Our beautiful baby is 3 months, a quarter of a year. I start to enjoy my babies much more around this age, I always love them but I feel like we are a lot more aquainted around this mark. These are some things I know about our little one.  She enjoys tummy time and is really strong. She also likes to stand on peoples laps when being held.  She doesn't enjoy when I put her carseat in the shopping cart. She actually just hates her carseat all together and is her least happy in the car. She loves the Bjorn and will generally fall asleep in it. This has made grocery shopping possible but still not my favorite thing to do.  She isn't on a schedule but it's normal for her to take about 3 naps a day. We kinda just fly by the seat of our own pants. Nursing is the same, I feed her when she wants and everyday is different.   The last doctors appt she was in the 90th percentile for height and 75th for weight so she is a big healthy girl.  She has b...

Children Scissors?!

It was a Wednesday evening. Wednesday's are Pete's late night at work which means he get's home around 8:00 making it a really long day for me. We had just finished eating dinner, I had made tostadas trying a new idea of baking the corn tortillas with olive oil instead of frying. It turned out being really yummy at least Audrey and I thought so, Brandon wasn't interested. I told the kids they could have an otter pop after dinner so they ran out back while I plopped myself on the couch to feed Melanie.  That's when it happened. I heard Brandon scream unlike I've ever heard him scream before and my stomach turned because I knew something bad had happened. I rushed through the kitchen to get outside and met Audrey looking worried and shouting that Brandon was bleeding. When I saw his little body with blood pouring down his hand I started to panic, but knew I needed to figure out where it was coming from. I handed Melanie to Audrey and rushed Brandon to the sink t...