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Watching basketball with daddy...

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Miss Leah is becoming such a little grown up! I can't believe how much she has grown and is developing. She plays with her hands and even her feet, is in the process of getting the "roll-over" down, and coos and talks a lot! She is very smiley, especially after she wakes up. She is finally out of newborn size clothes and weighs around 12 lbs. now. Her new favorite spot to be is in her bouncy seat. She loves to grab the toys and even talk to them!

I'm hoping we are finally getting into a good routine. For the last week or so, she wakes up around 5 a.m. to eat, then will go back to sleep until somewhere between 7 and 8. She will take one or two catnaps in the morning, and around 12:30 p.m. will settle down for a nice long afternoon nap, usually for 3-4 hours! Then in the evening she will take another catnap or two. Somewhere between 6:30 and 7 p.m. she has a bath, gets all lotioned up, and her last feeding before bedtime. If she is still awake, she will get a story or two. Bedtime is usually between 8:30 and 9 p.m. and she will sleep all the way until 5 a.m. the next morning!

I am officially done nursing. For the last few weeks, about every-other-time I would feed her she would fuss and squirm and sometimes scream through her feedings. We would end up having to give her a bottle when she did that. Plus, I wasn't pumping enough to get her enough bottles for the next day at daycare, so we started supplementing some with formula. Finally last week I decided we better just quit. She is still getting 1/2 breastmilk and 1/2 formula, until our frozen supply is gone. We will slowly get her used to a formula only bottle. I just quit breastfeeding/pumping cold turkey, and so far it hasn't been too bad...on a scale of 1-10, the pain is maybe at a 3, and only leaking slightly!

Other than that, nothing else is new in our world. I live for the weekends now when I get to spend the entire day with our little Bug!

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no picture...we had a busy night! I had a HOME party with my friend Jill, and Lindy and Leah got to spend time with Aunt Carrie and Uncle Tony, cousins Grant and Conner, and Grandma Janet!

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Happy 3 month birthday Leah!

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an extra posting!

Here are Leah's first professional pictures. They were actually taken on Oct. 3, which would have been day 73 in our blog world....

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She loves her 'Mr. Bear', as we call it...

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We took a reindeer for a walk today...

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Having so much fun playing with Mr. Bear and making the music play on her bouncy seat!

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Check out that look - she has a little attitude already!

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So tired after a long weekend in Vermillion - D-Days will do that to you! She even slept through the night and is going on her second 2+ hour nap...

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HAPPY D-DAYS!

All bundled up at the parade...

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Last time she will get to wear this outfit - newborn sizes are finally too small!

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She wasn't crying, don't worry. She just has a clogged duct so her eye is always water-y! And again, playing with her hands!

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She has discovered her hands...

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Leah fell back to sleep on mommy and daddy's bed this morning...such a sweetie she is!

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Leah slept the evening away, was up long enough for a bath and to eat and play for a short time. Then.......she slept through the night!!

no updates?

Hi. For those of you that check the blog regularly...the internet isn't working at our house, so hence the reason for no new posting yesterday! And I don't have my camera here at work, so you'll just have to wait until we figure out what is going on. But don't worry, I've still taken a picture each day and they are safely saved on the camera!

Hope to post soon!

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She seems to always wake up, ready to play!

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A typical Saturday afternoon during football season...I don't think Leah is a fan...

All dressed up and ready for a party!

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A nice ending to a long week!

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