Madeline's 3 month pictures

Once again, I'm really late posting these, but here are Madeline's 3 month photos, that were taken on December 9th. 

At 3 months, Madeline weighed 14 lbs (unofficially) and is still growing like a weed. She's generally a very happy, smiley baby while awake (which is often...), generally calm and taking everything in, but not afraid to tell us when she's not happy either. She enjoys spending more time in the swing, but still doesn't sleep in it very often. She's also enjoying the fisher price seahorse a lot more, and will generally calm right down and frequently go to sleep when it's on. Speaking of sleep, well, she's still very inconsistent in her sleep patterns. She still loves to be swaddled in the sleep sack, even though she has a tendency to fight the swaddle at first. She generally takes 4 naps a day, starting about an hour after waking for the day, and 3 of the 4 are generally only 45 minutes to an hour. She's been going to bed about the same time as Joseph, so generally between 8 and 9 pm. Since turning 3 months old, she's slept from 8 or 9 until 5ish about 1/3 of the time, waking only to eat and then going back to sleep for another 3 hours. If she gets off schedule during the day, though, we all suffer at night. Sometimes it means an extra 3 am wake up, other times, like the last two nights, she's up every two hours from midnight till 8 am. Ugh.

She's still not rolling over, but she's getting closer. She also kicks like crazy at things, more so than batting at them with her arms. She seems to notice she has feet, but hasn't made any attempt yet to grab at them. She'll just stare at them so intently she goes cross-eyed! She also loves chewing on her fingers, and seems to be sucking on the first few fingers on each hand. She gave herself a bad hickey of sorts on one of her index fingers from sucking so hard!

Joseph loves playing with her, and we are having more and more moments where they will sit and look at each other. Joseph will start to make goofy noises which generally cracks Madeline up. Once she starts giggling at him, he laughs too. It's really sweet. Other than the sleep issue, she's really a great baby. And I know I was spoiled with a baby who started sleeping 10-11 hours consistently at 3.5 months. It's just so hard not to compare them!