Lenna's 3 Month Photos

Last Wednesday night we had Lenna's 3 month photos taken by Amanda at Garding Photography. Amanda posted some of her favorite pictures on Garding Photography's facebook page. Hopefully you are able to open this link. If not, I will be getting permission from her to post some pictures once I decide on what to order. They are all so cute! Most of the time when we have a camera around Lenna, she will always smile after you put the camera down, but Amanda was able to capture her grin in a few.
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Here are some other facts about Lenna:

• We started a bedtime routine with Lenna from day one that she was home that we would get swaddled and be put in her crib. Once she was swaddled at night she would go to bed right away 90% of the time and then the other 10% she would maybe need her nuk to sleep. She typically still wakes once a night because she's hungry but then I feed her and it takes less than 15 minutes to be up with her and she's back in her crib asleep. Last Monday night when Lenna woke up I found her on her belly screaming! I was a little freaked out, as she was still swaddled and didn't have use of her arms to push herself up. Well, Tony and I decided now that she is rolling over from back to belly it is time to stop swaddling her, there goes our routine. Then on Tuesday night we put her to bed and swaddled her under her arms. She was up twice! Then Wednesday night she slept straight thru until I woke up in the morning to get ready for work and last night she only woke up for her normal feeding. So, to make a long story short, she is no longer being swaddled any more, such a big girl!
• Lenna doesn't have much interest in her nuk right now. As you can see in the 3 month pictures, her hand is her best friend. Well, that is why we started giving her a nuk. Anyhow, it just goes to show you can't control what these little babies decide they want to do. She's still cute even when I hear this huge sucking sound in the back seat and get her out of the car and she's got her whole hand in her mouth!
• Lenna's favorite toys have been her taggy blanket and some other toys from Manhatten Toy that Grandma Sue bought her. How convenient that Grandma Sue works for a toy company.

A quick update on Lenna's Grandpa Frank. He is doing much better and they have lowered his pain medication. Grandpa Frank may not be able to lift Lenna when we got visit because she's more than 10 lbs but he is ready to spoil her! Yeah, to Frank doing well during his recovery.

It's Lenna's Grandpa Lenny's 65th birthday today. I took a picture of Lenna with her Grandpa this morning before she went to daycare and will be sure to post it as soon as I get it uploaded.

Quick update on Lenna

Lenna's using a walker!!!!!! She is going to be off in college before we know it. Tony and I were just talking about getting Lenna a walker and the next day she was in one at daycare. Doreen noticed yesterday that Lenna was starting to scoot around in her walker. In order to not feel like we have been left out, we purchased a walker this evening for Lenna and let her try it out. So far so good. She likes the big space on the tile floor and only has 1 gear, backing up but she's so cute doing it.

Look at this grin, its like - I'm out to get you Mom & Dad, I will be a wild one when I get the hang of this thing, you just watch out!"

Mommy of course is in disbelief of all of this. I can't believe she's wanted to scoot around in a walker already but if she seems up to it, then more power to our Lenna-girl.

Everyone keeps asking us if Lenna is loosing her long hair she had. Well besides the crazy hair, it appear to be thinning a little and rubbing off in the back. Here is a crazy hair picture:


We also want to say a shout out to Lenna's Grandpa Frank. He had triple bypass surgery today and we are praying he has a speedy recovery. Lenna is going to see them when we go to Sedona, Az next month, we just bought our plane tickets so she'll be ready to provide plenty of TLC.

Meet the Grandparents

I apologize for the delay on the posts! We have been quite busy around here. The weekend before last Lenna got to meet her Grandpa Pete and Grandma Jackie when they got home from being snowbirds for the winter. They loved meeting their new grandbaby!

Our Happy 3 Month Old

Wow! All I can say is time sure flies. Lenna turned 3 months old yesterday. I would have posted pictures yesterday but we were having too much fun. Since it has been warm outside Lenna loves this weather. She loves being outside in her stroller for naps & long walks. Yesterday she went in her Baby Bjorn all the way to Grandpa Lenny's and back (for those of you who haven't been to our place, its about 1/2 mile away). Here are some milestones of Lenna from the past 2 weeks:

Since we had such a busy weekend the weekend prior we decided to have a laid back Easter. We had brunch at Triple R in Kimball, and look who showed up? The Easter bunny. Lenna got a picture and didn't freak out.

Ok, ok, followers, you are probably like "where are the bath photos?" well, here is one. Lenna loves her baths.

Lenna loves her bumbo chair and her puppy Sarge. He was funny and made her laugh and I finally caught 1/2 of her beautiful smile that we have seen so much of lately (except for capturing it on camera :)) Tonight we caught Lenna pulling Sarge's tail. He's definitely desensitized to children now!

Lenna was teasing Sarge, ha ha I'm in your spot (under strict supervision) because that is where Sarge normally sits.

On Saturday, Lenna got ready for her first horse expo in St. Cloud, cowboy boots and all. Her cousin Amber joined us and it was a fun girls day.

Lenna's Baptism

Last Sunday Lenna was baptized. We had so many friends and family over and it was a busy day for Lenna. We were able to get some good pictures of her in her dress. Her baptism dress was given to us at my baby shower from my Grandma and Aunts. She was a beautiful little girl.


Lenna's necklace was from her Grandma Sue. My Mom had a little bracelet with this heart on it that she got from her Grandmother and wore on her baptism. The bracelet broke but Grandma had the jewelry store put it on a chain. It is partially 60 years old and something Lenna can always have.

Lenna got her first bible from my friend Wanda and the cross from Uncle Tim and Aunt Jodie

Here is a picture of Lenna with her Godparents, Aunts and Uncles Tim, Jodie, Kelli & Keith

4th Generation picture of Grandma Helen, Grandma Sue, Lenna and me

Family pic in the front of the church

All of us with Father Brunner

It's Official: Maternity Leave is Over

Lenna starts daycare full time tomorrow and I go back to work. It has been a blessing to be able to spend the past 10 weeks with our wonderful daughter. This past weekend we got some work done around the house and ready for Lenna's baptism. Lenna was such a good little girl in church this morning so next weekend should be a breeze. We are excited to have family and friends join us for this occasion. We had some fun with Lenna's new bunny ears to prepare for Easter as well. Grandma Sue even joined in on the fun.

Daycare

We threw a lot at Lenna this past week. After her shots, she ran a low grade fever throughout the weekend. It also threw her sleeping schedule off at night and she woke up a bit more. Then she caught a touch of the head cold Tony and I had and her voice was hoarse, but she didn't have the nasal congestion we had. She is now back to normal with her sleep schedule, either sleeping straight threw from 10p-6a or getting up once around 3am for a feeding. On Monday Lenna started daycare at Doreen's this week. We wanted to bring Lenna to daycare the week before I started work so Lenna got used to shorter days. She is doing great with daycare and we are so glad to have her at such a nice family daycare. The first two days were fine, but after yesterday when I dropped her off, Mommy got a bit sad. On Monday I start work full time. I mean how could you not get sad when Lenna is so happy in the mornings? Just look at her, this is the beautiful girl I was lucky enough to spend every morning with for the past 10 weeks. What more could one ask for?

Development wise, Lenna is growing fast. She loves her rattles now, and is laying on her tummy for at least 5 minutes before she gets mad. She rolled over on her tummy time mat for the first time 2 nights ago from belly to back. She hasn't done it again but I'm sure its coming soon. We have some issues with Lenna being fussy in the evenings around 6-7. Well now that it is nice out we bring Lenna outside for fresh air and that helps with that. Here she is getting ready to go outside with Daddy, I think she's got plenty of room in those boots, but its fun to see how Daddy dresses her :) :

A week from this Sunday, Lenna gets baptized, so we will be busy getting some things done around the house until then.