3 MONTHS

Louisa hit 3 months at the end of January.  She wore 3 month clothing and size 1 diapers for the entire month.  A Lou started to get in a much better sleeping routine this month.  She consistently started to give me a 5 hour stretch of sleep at night  

Here are her weekly pictures for the month.  As Nona says Lou "found her hands."  In fact she often finds handfuls of my hair.  I love the first picture because it looks like she is winking.  In the fourth picture you can also see some of the bubbles she frequently blows.

 

She learned to roll from her front to her back this month.  I wasn't able to capture it on video but here is a cute video of her smiling during tummy time.

 

 

We are enjoying all the cuddles we can get from this little caboose.

In this photo you can really see the red highlights in Lou's hair.  She also has very blonde eyelashes and eyebrows.  It will be so fun to see where he coloring eventual ends up.  Her eyes are still the prettiest shade of blue.

We had a follow-up appointment with the Orthopedic Surgeon this month.  Since Lou was breech for so long, it is standard protocol to have a hip ultrasound to check on hip development.  We went for her first ultrasound at the beginning of December and found out that one of her hips was underdeveloped.  We went back at the beginning of January for a follow-up ultrasound and found out that that hip is now in a good range.  Silas came along for a hip x-ray.  He was also breech for as long but they didn't have this protocol in place when he was a baby.  His hips look great too.

Lou had her first day of childcare as I returned to work.  We kept telling Silas that Lou was going to go to school with him...well he was quite disappointed when the first day finally came and Lou wasn't right next to him all day.  He is in the preschool class and Lou is in the Infant/Toddler class.

We had a great time over the Christmas break with family.  Here is Lou taking a nap with Grandad.

Millie loves any chance she gets to give Lou a bottle.

Lou loved the light tunnel at the local park.

She got to meet Uncle Jeff...

cousin Carver...

...and Aunt Kim.

Lou also got lots of snuggles from Nona and Papa.

Millie got bows her first Christmas and we continued the tradition with Lou...after all, a girl can never have too many bows.

The days seem to be flying by and we can't believe how quickly our Little Lou is growing up.

JANUARY

January was non-eventful and crazy month all at the same time.  We are grateful that January is finally over and that we are that much closer to Spring.  Here is our January in reverse...

The kids love playing the Nintendo Switch in January.  Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games is a favorite.  Here is a picture of Silas and Millie playing the boxing event.

Seth was offered tickets to the Salt Lake Stars at the Vivint Arena.  We took Phin and Millie to the game and had the best time living the suite life.

 

Millie had a field trip to the Loveland Living Planet Aquarium.  She was so excited...so excited in fact that she was up before 6 AM ready to go.   Phin was quite envious that she was going on her second field trip and he still hasn't had one.  

 

January was very rough in terms of childcare.  Silas and Lou's school closed down twice due to Covid.  They had both been exposed multiple times so Seth and I didn't feel like we could take them to anyone else.  We took turns staying home.  I was very fortunate to be given permission to work from home during some of this craziness.

The kids still love to hold Lou and ask several times a day for snuggles with their little sister.

We tried a new ice cream spot that is a few blocks from our home.  Silas is always a fan of anything chocolate and Millie always goes for the pink flavor.

Millie loves playing on the virtual reality too. 

 

Silas loves Costco muffins...or I should say Costco muffin tops.  

 

 

Silas continues to be our best kiddo at actually playing with toys.  It is fun to see his imagination run wild with his Marvel Superheroes.

 

Due to the high omicron cases, I was also given permission to work a professional development day from home.  I won't lie snuggling little Lou while watching continuing education content made for a pretty great day. 

Phin, Silas and Lou all had known exposures to COVID in January.   Millie had some symptoms around the same time as their exposures so we spent some time getting tested so we could be sure that we weren't exposing any others.  We had multiple tests and fortunately they all came back negative.  Millie ended up having an ear infection and then Silas ended up getting an ear infection too.  We made the best of our wait in lines.  The longest testing line was an hour and a half...the crazy thing is that the next day we went back and drove right up to the front. 

The kids were fascinated with the motorized car at the mall.  They also loved visiting the Lego store.

We completed the Snowman Scavenger Hunt at Farmington Station.  We had a great time walking around and searching for the snowman window clings.

Here are a few of Millie's art pieces.

One last photo of Lou her first week at Childcare.  She was a dream for them the first week and they said they never heard her cry.  There were a few days were she slept almost the entire time.