12 Weeks of Kayla

We finally did it - made it to 12 weeks! Does that mean she's 3 months? Or do we have to wait until April 29th to say she's 3 months? I don't know. I think I'm going to start now. :)

This past weekend the last of the family members who are going to come were here- my dad and Chris. And, of course, they were in love with little Kayla! Dad looked so cute and proud. He even got her a "grandpa's sweetheart" onsie. They came when it was really hot so we spent a lot of time inside in the a/c but we did manage to make it to the park for a little while.

Kayla has started rolling to her side - I think I posted a video of that last week. She's also started holding on to objects better and, tonight she even intentionally grabbed onto her animals and a rattle.

She's still in the process of discovering her hands and what they are for. She holds on to her clothes and her blankets now too, and I don't know how much longer we will have to hold her bottle- she's definitely getting strong! She's all kinds of vocal now- not all the time but she can definitely get on a roll. It's too cute. She's ready to get up and go- she likes to sit and stand (with our help of course)- even when she's laying down she's moving and trying to roll. When she starts crawling we're in trouble. :-)

She's also going to bed a little more quickly these days. Not necessarily any quieter, though tonight was really great - she just kind of floated to sleep. I'm hoping that by the time she's 4 months she'll be going to sleep on her own without my needing to walk with her, rock her, shhhh her, or sing to her. That's right folks - I have sung to get her to sleep a couple times. She's probably the only one in the world that doesn't care if my singing sucks. :-) Anyway - I will be sad to lose our time together but it's slowly gotten to be less and less time so at least it's an slow transition.

It's really quite interesting to think that they intuitively just figure things out with or without our help. It's going to be so much fun to watch her grow and develop in the coming months and years. There's so much ahead of us. But even in her short 12 weeks she has grown and changed so much... sometimes I look at her and think "you look different this evening than you did this morning". It's so crazy!

Okay, must go. I don't want this to turn into yet another long one. Enjoy the pictures!