Rachel's Turn

Dear Rachel, 

Now that you are three months old, you have become fun for Mom to play with. You smile when I talk to you. You are fascinated by your hands. Talk about simpler times. If I was entertained by looking at my hands for an hour, imagine how much enjoyment I should be getting out of doing the laundry and reading a book! You may very well be the best baby I have had. As long as you aren't hungry, you only cry if you are bored and need a change of scenery. You can go 4-5 hours without eating, which means you only eat 5-6 times a day. (That's mommy code for Best Baby Ever!) You sleep between 9:30 pm until almost 7:00 am the next morning.

You don't like riding in the car, and you only just tolerate the car seat. Sometimes you fuss when we put you in bed for the night, and you make a grunting sound that has the cadence of, "It's not fair! It's not fair!" We laugh when you do that.

You are able to reach for objects and grasp them now. There is a musical butterfly that dangles from a bar over your purple bouncer seat. When you reach the handle and pull it to make the song play, you gets a big smile on your face every time.

Dad fed you chocolate mousse over the weekend. Yeah, he's a terrible dad. (Chocolate and cream for your first solid food? Really?) But you loved it. :-) I think he was trying to win you over. Twice last week I handed you to him so he could hold you, and you stuck your lip out and cried like you had your feelings hurt. We're guessing you're starting to be a Mommy's Girl like the other kids were.

Just like I knew you would, you get better every day! 

Love, Mom