3 months and tween music

Nora is now 3 months old. She's still a happy, easy-going baby. Most nights she sleeps well. For a full week, she slept 8-9 hours each night. Then for a week she was getting up once a night again. But the past two nights she's back to sleeping a good 7 hours, so I really can't complain. She's a wiggler. We still swaddle her at night but she always wiggles until her feet are free. She likes to be on the floor and can wiggle in circles and moves around. She can roll onto her side but hasn't rolled over completely yet. She loves to be able to see what's going on around her. Ella and Mia like to talk to her and try to get her to smile. Ella has more success, talking to her in a syrupy, high-pitched tone. Mia tries but doesn't understand that being 2 inches from Nora's face worries her more than amuses her. Nora seems to like the attention from both of them though. Since she's been sleeping so well, we moved her to the crib in the girls' room. They love having her in there, although normally they're asleep from the time I lay her down to the time I get her in the morning. In the afternoons, they all like to watch me work out. Not sure why they find it so much fun, but it makes it easier for me and the older girls are really encouraging, telling me I'm strong and giving high fives. Nora gets really excited and starts kicking her feet like mad. And then she usually falls asleep, lol.

There's not a lot of other news here. Ella will sit on the potty and go, but doesn't tell us when she needs to go. I'm back to work one day a week. Right now that's plenty. I'm doing TurboFire. I like it and am seeing results, just not on the scale. But that's in more detail on my other blog. We watch a lot of Phineas and Ferb. Steve will even watch it when the girls are in bed. Problem is, we end up watching a lot of Disney XD commercials. One of them is a Jonas Brothers music video. The result is that I, a 26 year old mom of 3, end up walking around singing a Jonas Brothers song. It really is catchy. "LA, LA, baby. LA, LA, baby..."

4th of July and sleep!

We didn't have any big plans for the 4th this year, which was fine by us. Life is so busy these days that low-key plans are wonderful. Steve got confused about the dates for some plans, so we ended up having a date night on the 3rd. We had Mexican and then played mini golf. Then we went to see the fireworks with the girls. The older girls remembered them from last year and they loved them again. Nora woke up and I sat her on my lap facing the fireworks. She watched them intently and cooed every so often. It was a late night but the girls loved it.

Now the big news: Nora has slept 8-9 hours straight for the past 7 nights! I was convinced the first night was a fluke, since it was Steve's night to get up with her. She did it again the next night, again a night Steve normally gets up with her. But it happened again and again. Last night we decided to try letting her sleep in the crib in her sisters' room and see how that went. Once again, she slept straight through. Awesome! It is SUCH a relief that her sleep patterns are more like Ella's than Mia's.

I started a second blog so that my weight loss wouldn't take over this one. My profile links to both. I do have to share that TurboFire came this week - yay! I'm starting it Monday and hope the scale actually moves down after that.

A few other bits of news: Steve's cousin's wife had their newest baby earlier this week. Steve's mom turned 50. And my good friend Jenny was induced yesterday and had little Jaden this morning! I don't have more details than that, since Nate said they needed naps. I should get more info later and hopefully can go visit them tomorrow since I don't think I'll get a chance today.