Nola @ 3 months

Nola turned three months old on April 27th! Here's what she's up to these days...

• At the doctor's office on 5/3 (more on that in another post), she weighed 13 lbs, 11.2 oz. (55th percentile)
• She now takes a 6 oz bottle every 2 1/2 - 3 hours.
• She wears size 2 diapers and still wears her 0-3 month clothes.
• She consistently sleeps through the night now! She usually takes her last bottle around 8:00, then we put her to bed. She sometimes wakes up on her own at about 6:00, but usually, Rudy wakes her up by 6:15 to feed her.
• I took her to the ENT for her laryngomalacia follow-up on 4/21. (Read more about that visit here.) The condition seems to be getting much better. Now she's only a noisy breather when she's been crying or after she has spit up. You can really hear the fluid that gets stuck on her vocal folds.
• Nola's temperament is wonderful! She wakes up smiling and smiles most of the day. When she cries, we know that she's either hungry, tired or needs a diaper change. Occasionally, she cries just to get our attention, but not very often and really only when she's been in one spot for a long time.
• I'm afraid we may be losing the paci vs. thumb battle. She much prefers her thumb and will spit out her paci to put her thumb in her mouth. We're accepting any and all contributions to the orthodontia fund starting now! My philosophy on pacis vs. thumbs has always been to try for the paci because you can throw them away when you're ready to start the unpleasant task of paci rehab. Thumbsucking is just so much more difficult to stop, because so often it's a subconscious behavior. Oh, well...she sure is cute:

• The big change at 3 months has been the start of Nola's cooing. She tries so hard to talk to us. When we hold her in our laps and talk to her, she'll coo with such inflection that it sounds like she's holding up her end of the conversation. She smiles and loves the interaction. I've been trying to get a video of it, but haven't gotten anything yet. The camera distracts her from the conversation and she stops talking. :)
• This past month, I went back to work and that has been a big adjustment for us. I miss Nola (and Caleb) when I'm at work, but love the big smiles I get when I pick them up from daycare.

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