Three Months with Suzanna Grace

Age: 3 months

Check out how much I have grown!!

Weekly Updates:

I know that you are MINE but I have honestly never seen a more beautiful baby. :)  

Weight: At our last appointment you were 10.5 pounds and you had gained around 2 pounds per month since you were born...if that remained true then I bet you are at least 12-13 pounds.  Mommy is growing that baby!

Height:  ??? I bet you're an inch or so taller...maybe....You like to stand up tall and though old wives tales say that standing too soon will cause you to be bow legged, your Daddy just adds the skill to his list of ways that you are so advanced.

     

We were walking to meet our friends on Toes' boat this week and you got your feet under you and push up in your stroller.  You rode like this the whole way while Mommy snapped pictures and repeatedly told you, "Sit down, you're too liiiitle to stand!"

Diaper Size: Size 1

Clothes Size:  3M! You are officially too big for your NB footies.  I know because I squeezed you into one of my favorite pairs last week and I am surprised that you didn't burst through the seams overnight (I had already committed to putting you in them at bedtime and figured one last night wouldn't hurt...)

Shoe Size: No shoes quite yet.  With the warm weather you have been barefoot a lot! Renee likes to say that you have your "summer toes" out!

Schedule: You are still on a 3 hour eat, play, sleep schedule that plays through at 9 am, 12, 3, 6, and 9 pm. Some nights/mornings you wake up between 3:30-4:30 and a few times you have slept all the way til 7!  When you wake up for that first time in the morning, I usually bring you into Mommy and Daddy's bed where you have been known to sleep soundly cuddled up with either of us until 9 or 9:30!  I hope that you are ALWAYS a cuddle/snuggle lover!
I have read the Mom's on Call books and have their app and they both say that I should be weening you from that middle of the night feeding AND putting you to bed earlier.  However, while Mommy is home and Daddy has class late we have created a schedule that works for our family.  So far, we have done a pretty excellent job of creating a schedule that works for us all.

Fun Facts and Milestones:

• You went downtown to help Mommy present her action research to members of the Chicago Foundation for Educators.  Renee came to watch you during the presentation and snapped some shots of us taking in the view!  And, yes, our outfits color coordinate...you'll be embarrassed about this in about 13 years but come to appreciate in it 30...

• We celebrated Baby Alvarez in the burbs with all of our friends!  You even attended your first sleep over.  Daddy and the boys had their annual "City of Lights" golf tournament so we rode down with Leslie, Meg, and Liz G.  Every time Mommy looked in the rearview mirror to check on you, all I could see was one of the girls heads giving you kisses! 

We love our friends!

You were super excited to see that Daddy after a day away from him!

• You had your first trip to the beach too (separate post to come!).  The Moore/Ray/Ellis family vaca began for the two of us in Memphis before we traveled to Madison and then on to Orange Beach.  This trip included many firsts for you and for us as a family: 
• traveling without Daddy
• Southwest misplacing all of our luggage
• celebrating Uncle Rob and Aunt Angela's engagement
• meeting Uncle Bryson
• getting your toes in the water and sand at the beach
• floating in the lazy river
• Father's Day
• Mommy's 25th Birthday (again)
• hair being long enough to wear a bow

We had such a fun time at the beach and cannot wait for the tradition to continue each year as our families grow and grow!  

• Daddy graduated from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Business with his MBA when we returned from our vacation.  He has worked so hard for us and we are so proud.  We took several selfies and luckily kind strangers also offered to take pictures.  Mother after mother approached us to comment on how beautiful you were and how much they loved your smocked dress.  Many told me about how they had hand smocked similar styles for their son or daughter who was graduating that day.  You stole the show.

• It is World Cup time and you LOVE all the colors and sounds coming from the games you watch with Daddy on TV.  You got a little fussy one day when daddy put you on his chest so that he could watch the game...all he had to do was turn around so that you could watch and you were happy again.  USA, USA, USA!

• You love music and "dancing".  You kick your legs and pump your arms.  You think Daddy and his friends are funny too...

• Rob, Angela, and Elsie Lee drove up from MS and stopped in Chicago to spend the night and hang out for a day before they headed up to WI.  We enjoyed walking around Southport and showing them our city!  You and Elsie Lee enjoyed ignoring each other.

• On June 9 you rolled over for the first time from your tummy to your back!  You do not do it consistently but you do lift your chest up high and talk in your outside voice whenever we lay you on your stomach. You also kick, kick, kick, which sometimes takes you clear off the play mat!

•  You no longer sleep in the PODster.  It was great while it lasted but one night when we put you in it you just looked huge so we decided that it was time to let you sleep without it.  We still swaddle you and you sleep really well in it.  The other night I heard you stirring and when I went it you had turned yourself all the way around and had your feet sticking out the side of the crib. 

•  You have a pretty fabulous life girlfriend.  Though we didn't venture out onto the water for a ride on Toes' boat, you did enjoy an afternoon on the docks.  All of our dock friends commented on how beautiful your eyes and , of course, bikini were.  Toes' boat, The SlumpBuster, sure has changed its demographic over the years...