17 Weeks and 4 months

Friday Michelle turned 17 weeks

 Flashback anyone? ;)

 Joe and I are always joking that Michelle says really long prayers ;) she likes to sleep like this, although usually her head is turned to the side, we caught her rubbing her face as if to say "you guys again? goodness just leave me alone!"

Four Months Sunday May 20, 2012

 She looks kinda like her cousin Madeline in the above picture to me of course I have only ever seen her via skype and pictures.

Four Month Stats:

• Weight: 13 lbs 6 oz 50th percentile
• Length: 25 in 75th percentile
• Head Circumference: 40 3/4 cm  50th percentile

ohhhh colored rings!!!!!

16 weeks

well, she's a growing up! I packed away her last size of clothes on Saturday and may have shed a tear, but I have to admit that having cute clothes in the next size up makes it easier =) She is such a cutie pie but sometimes I wish she would slow down a little bit on the growing up. Judging from her eating and sleeping habits she is at the beginning of another growth spurt.

Nothing much

not very exciting but a little video I just took of Michelle.

15 weeks etc.

Friday Michelle turned 15 weeks. She was been rolling around for a while now but on Thursday she figured out how to roll in a stationary position as well which meant that she now could roll over in her bassinet making it no longer safe for her as she was peeking out above it. So that was her last night in her bassinet =( it was sad because it means that she is growing up too fast.

So Friday night was her first night in her crib, she has been taking naps in it for a long time but i have been putting off putting her in her crib mostly for selfish reasons. She slept fine but I think I woke up to every little peep i heard on the monitor (one reason I wanted to wait for a weekend so that I wouldn't feel bad about waking Joe up). The biggest challenge is that when she is still asleep she would roll on to her stomach and be frustrated so most of the times we had to get up were just to flip her back because in her sleep stupor she seems to forget how to do that. By 5:30 am we were too tired of it and gave in and just put her in her carseat for the rest of the night/morning  where she slept quite contently.

The process was repeated Saturday and Sunday night as well. On Monday evening we ended up just moving her crib to our room for now for our sanity (If u know me u know that I am not a quality person when severely sleep deprived). She is doing much better now and it's funny to me how quickly she learns at this age. She still rolls over in a sleep stupor but is now remembering to turn her head which allows her to sleep/ breathe comfortably. I think that if her room were closer to ours then this would have been an easier transition but such is life. Things are going well now and she should be back in her own room soon-ish. Also for those of you wondering- that is not a normal crib bumper don't worry, it is mesh so it is not a suffocation hazard- it is basically like the sides of a pack'n'play but means she doesn't get tangled in the crib slates.

15 weeks

So on Sunday Joe was taking off Michelle's dress and this made us laugh so we took a picture, she looks like a nun to us.

 Proof she does have melt downs- Joe wanted a picture of her pouty face and it turned in to the below.

14 Weeks!

Michelle turned 14 weeks yesterday!!! It is so crazy to me but I say that every week. She is a sweetie pie and has been rolling all week. The current challenge is that sometime she gets really into chomping on her fists and sometimes rolls over to her tummy in the process but is tired and then just starts to cry because she can't (or won't) remember what to do even though she is perfectly capable of rolling back over on her own. She also seems to do this while napping which therefore wakes herself up- not cool. Why don't I just swaddle her you ask? Well, that's another story. The other night she was swaddled up all tightly and then I woke up and heard her fussing a little (not even very much) but I oddly decided to check on her anyways. She had managed to wiggle so that the blanket was wrapped around her head and only her head so that even by flailing her arms it wasn't unwrapping- I have no clue how she managed to do that but I was grateful for the prompting that got my but out of bed. So yeah, basically I'm not sleeping so well right now, although she still sleeps in her bassinette right now and she can't roll over in that but she is almost ready for her crib at this point.
Anyways here is what you really want- Pictures!

 Thanks for the pretty and sentimental blanket Mommy =) she loves it! (and so do I!)

uhhh... tooo close dad, a little too close...

Proven Wrong, Again

Michelle is definitely my daughter because she clearly wanted to prove me wrong. In my last post (which I actually wrote on Friday) I said she rarely rolls over. Well yesterday Joe and I were sitting on the couch watching Michelle play on the floor. She was laying on her back, then her side, then her front- holding herself up and everything. Then she played for a bit and rolled back to her back, played for a bit then did it again a second time and then a third. It was so cool getting to watch her make the connections of  how to do it and that she really was the one in charge, she was so proud! We're proud of her but at the same time I feel a little bit sad, what happened to my little baby? At three months and 1 day old she was rolling around, not cool!

Then today, oh today. So, we were sitting in Sunday School and Michelle was on my lap looking all over the place and I hear her poop (not even that loud) I grab a diaper and am about to take her our when I realize that the poop is everywhere- diaper, her skirt, her legs, blanket, my skirt was filled with it as well as my hands. How can something so small contain SO SO SO much poop?! Have you ever had to walk out of Sunday school covered in poop? Because I have and I was not too thrilled with the looks I got either. What did you want me to do people? Stay?! Needless to say we came home early today which was probably good because Michelle had a meltdown once we got outside. (Church is right during her morning nap- normally I can get her to sleep but she only slept for about 20 min today- no bueno.) After Michelle and I both taking a shower (SO MUCH POOP!) we tried to put her down for he nap (she naps in her crib most of the time even though at the moment she still sleeps in her bassinette in our room at night). She was finally calming down and then I heard her make a noise I wasn't familiar with so I had Joe go and check on her, she had rolled over, and then proceeded to repeat the process about 5 more times. She sure is a mover and a shaker and once she gets the arm strength she will surely be a scootin on her way to crawling... tear... yet proud. p.s. it took another 1.5 hrs to get her to sleep, ya know only about 2 hrs after her normal nap time, yeah, that was fun.

Laundry awaits.