This month our girl has been ALL about her tummy! She almost instantly is put down on her back and then she rolls over! Even when she's on her tummy and gets mad after a while... if you flip her back onto her back... she'll roll right back over! Right now she can only roll onto her left side.
She's also doing her best to scoot around and get off of her mats.
Here she is "on" her other mat. As soon as she could, she was off that mat! And mommy has been working really really hard this month to clean that room up. I put all of Kayla's baby books on the book shelf, and I moved a lot of the other stuff out of the room and into other spots. I'm thinking that our computer room will make an eventual great playroom for Kayla.
Kayla likes looking at herself in the mirror. She also likes talking and playing with mommy and daddy.
She also likes the other side of the mirror too.
She also started to roll in her pack and play bassinet. So this ended mommy feeling comfortable with her sleeping in it at night. So we've moved back upstairs into bed with daddy, and into the bassinet that is completely mess around the sides. This one makes me scared that she's going to roll over, like she is in this picture and suffocate against plastic. So she only lays in there when mommy and daddy are around her.
Kayla loves being cuddled, and I love cuddling her!
Phew! We were in a diaper transition this month. There were a bunch of days where Kayla was blowing out her diapers at least once, if not multiple times a day. Here she is, proud as a peacock next to her sleeper that was her most recent diaper blowout victim. Kayla is in the 15% for her weight, so her butt was too big for the size one diapers, but she was too skinny to fill out the size 2 diapers. So she was having blow outs from both of them! Wah!!
Kayla outgrew her bottom infant insert in her car seat this month. I got nervous the first few times that I put her in the car seat and took her out for a walk without it. I wanted to make she was propped up good and could breath fine.
Kayla adorably loves her little Mickey Mouse doll! She chews on his nose.
Cody and I realized that Kayla's world view was a little bit limited from being held by us, to being on her back/tummy. So we decided that we wanted to get her a baby seat to sit in.
She looked skeptical as I was putting it together... but don't worry it was dummy proof! Very easy to set up. All I had to do was snap it into place.
I think it was a hit!!
Look at that smile!
That's my girl right there! I can't believe how much like momma she looks in this picture!
A big struggle for me this month was making sure that Kayla was fed well. After she turned 3 months old, I realized that she wasn't gaining weight right. So I went on a mission to make sure she was getting enough milk. I started giving her an extra 4 ounces of pumped milk a day spread out through a few bottles (basically an extra meal). This has been a lot of work for me. I was already pumping, but now there was pressure to have enough for her to eat everyday, plus I still wanted to be able to store some for when I go back to work. I've been buying quite a bit of products to help boost my milk supply. I bought one pill type, Pink Stork, that I didn't really see much benefit from. So then I got, Natal Nourish drops which I'm on the fence on whether or not it has been helping me. Then I got new upgraded flanges from Medela (that I did not like). My mom offered to make me some lactation cookies, and my dad bought me a new nursing pillow and a heated breast massager that are supposed to help. I also just ordered a different type of flange called pumpin pals... sooo as of this point, I'm still waiting on a lot of that stuff to come in. So hopefully I'll get the "secret sauce" to help me produce milk optimally. My real hope is that I could boost my milk supply enough to where I don't need to supplement Kayla with extra bottles... but we'll see what/if anything works! I have high hopes, and I'm basically "all in" trying to make it work! The good news is that she has gained weight this month. She's gone from 11 lbs 4 ounces to 12 lbs 9 ounces in 3 weeks. So it's a big improvement from the past month.
It's sad that we've been in isolation due to the coronavirus. It's sad that people can't come over to interact with us very much. I'm also sad that we can't go anywhere. Becky and I had such fun plans for these couple of months off... things are starting to open up this week in Ohio, so I can only hope that the virus doesn't spread more and that it's safe to go out again. I'd love to start going out in a few weeks (I want other people to test the waters first before we venture out). I'd love to get to go to the Cleveland and Cincinnati Zoos this summer. I'd also really like to go to Cedar Point, but we'll see if that ends up happening or not.
But yaaay for having one day that was sunny and 75 this month! We got to sit outside, and baby was in her little chair. Mom came over and sat on one side of the deck and we were on the other.
Here is daddy and baby outside. She's wearing a bib because she has been a drooling queen this month!! All kinds of slobber! She gets whatever she's wearing all wet with it
Kayla has adjusted to life without her swaddle really well, especially during naps. Although, it does seem like she gets a little scared at night upstairs unless its wrapped around her body.
I came upstairs when I heard her rustling around after a nap to this...
Girl loves her belly!
Then this morning, I heard her rustling around and got up and found my little goof ball like this.
She's like whaaat?? I'm comfy.
My sweetest girl!!
This was after our weigh in! Big girl at 16 weeks old, 12 lbs 9 ounces!
This is pretty much sums up my first Mother's Day nicely! Cody was super sweet and made breakfast with french toast, bacon, and fried apples. He had a nice card and a picture made for me. But Kayla was in a crabby bad mood the whole day (and the day after that). She was crying and grouchy all day long.
And to make matter worse I spilled all of the milk that I pumped...
TWICE that day! By the second time, I was nearly in tears! I've said it once, I'll say it a million times... whoever said no crying over spilled milk... certainly wasn't talking about breast milk!
Darn social distancing! We weren't able to be too close to my mom. But we sat in the garage and hung out with her for a little while. At least we got to see her and she got to see Kayla.
Here is my mother's day collage that I made of all of my favorite pictures of Kayla!
Here she is lounging on daddy...
Look how relaxed and chill baby is... and how hard daddy is working to sit up. Haha! He's been talking about doing baby exercises... so there ya go!
Here's Kayla's instant roll! Even when she's mad because she's on her tummy... she'll flop right back over onto it.
This girl is determined to crawl! Watch her try!
I can't believe it! I have a baby girl that hates bows! Wah!! She has so much hair that it makes it really hard to get it on her and for it to look good. I need head bands that don't go all the way around her head.
Kayla has been doing this new "dinosaur" screech when she can't put her hands in her mouth. So the new thing is for her to roll onto her tummy and then get mad that she can't suck onto her hands so she does her little dinosaur cry... we call her Kayla-Saurous Rex.
Here's Kayla playing in her big girl seat for one of the first times.
At the very beginning of the month, we'd blow bubbles at Kayla and she'd blow them back at us. It was the cutest thing ever! However, it seems like she's forgotten how to do it because she hasn't done it in the last couple of weeks. We loved her bubble blowing! We're hoping she'll do it again soon.
