Third Month

12-13 Weeks Old:

Our always happy (and very well fed) little girl:

If I am in the same room she is (which is most of the time), she usually watches me everywhere I go. I think it's so cute when she's on her back and she has to look clear up above her to look at me. I just had to get some pictures.I LOVE this girl!

She LOVES to swing. She is usually so content and would swing for hours if I'd let her.

One of my favorite pictures. It's a little fuzzy, but it's hard to focus on her when I'm not looking through the camera (I have to hold the camera away from my face to keep her attention).

These pictures are a little fuzzy. Again, I had to take them without looking through the camera to keep Eliza's attention.

Blowing bubblesWhat I call her "chocolate" eyes.

Scrunchy FaceWe're not quite sure why everyone she meets comments on her cheeks...

11-12 Weeks Old:
On Saturday, October 18th, Josh's Grandmother had a Halloween party at a bowling Alley. It may not be a conventional Halloween costume for a baby, but I just had to dress Eliza up as a princess. She IS our little princess and is so beautiful. Plus, I always wanted to be a princess when I was little (this was before all of the Disney Princess stuff was out, so it was hard to be one!). And for my last Halloween Costume when I was a 11 I was a princess. So I thought it was fitting. Everyone absolutely loved how cute she looked.

In case you're wondering about my outfit (and you're probably not), it's a sparkly thing that I had to buy for work a few years ago and I actually really like it, but it's not the sort of thing I can just wear places (I've never worn it since I got it). But I figured that since Eliza was a princess, I could be her "guardian" and it would be appropriate for me to be all dressed up, too."Peace" (backwards, but who cares)

She does this wide-eyed look all the time.
I'm so glad we got it captured on film.

10-11Weeks Old:
Getting So Strong!

Smiles and Such in the morning

This one's a bit fuzzy, but I love the expression on her face.

It's like she just discovered something new.

Here she is in the baby bjorn. The first one shows her intent staring look. The second one is what I call her "content" look. She is such a good baby!

9-10 Weeks Old:

Here are a couple of size comparison pictures. The first was taken after I gave her her first bath on August 3rd. The next two were taken on October 8th.
The two marks on her stomach are what the doctor calls temporary birth marks.
He said they'll go away after about a year. We'll see.

She is all cheeks and tummy (well, I guess she's pretty chubby all over, but her stomach and cheeks are particularly chubby).

At her two week appointment
(actually done when she was 10 days old),
her stats were as follows:
Weight: 6.37 lbs (7.38 %)
Length: 19.5 in (28.41%)
Head Circumference: 13.38 in (14.12%)

At her two month appointment, she had exploded:
Weight: 11.77 lbs (76.06%)
Length: 22.3 in (44.53 %)
Head Circumference: 15.2 in (42.14%)

Here's a bit of a smile taken in the morning
(she is definitely a morning person--always so happy in the mornings!)

Here is a funny Tummy Time Sequence:
She's starting to lift up

Good Job Eliza!Oh dear, are you getting tired?

Complete face plant

Side view of the face plant

Second Month

8-9 Weeks Old

When we took Eliza home from the hospital, I had bought a "newborn" outfit for her to wear. It DROWNED her. Unfortunately, I only got a picture of her wearing the onesie in the hospital, but here are a couple of pictures for comparison. 1 week old and 2 months old:

Adorable

How could you not love a baby with a face like this???

She started to smile when she was about 2 months, but they were few and far between. We have tried and tried to catch a good one on the camera, but whenever we bring out either camera or video camera, she quits smiling and just stares at them.

This was my yellow dress from when I was a baby. Unfortunately, it was packed away in a box and I couldn't find it until Eliza was a little too big for it (the back top button is undone in these pictures). The embroidery on the front is of a little girl on the phone with the text, "What is it, Grandma?"
As I was taking Eliza's pictures, she put her hands up by her face kind of like she was on the phone. It was adorable. The last picture kind of shows how chunky she is!

This side profile shows what I call her "interested" look. She does this all the time. This picture also shows how thin her hair is getting. I don't see it fall out (in the tub, in her bed, etc), but it must be coming out somewhere. Plus, her head is growing so the hairs that are there are moving further apart which makes them look thinner...right??? :-D

7-8 Weeks Old
This is a good picture that shows her "sucking blister", which she was born with. Actually, the first one popped and fell off but there was another one right underneath it. I never even notice it, but people point it out all the time.

6-7 Weeks Old
She's too big for this frog outfit now (the feet were little frogs, it was so adorable)

Tired but refusing to sleep. She also loves to stare at things and gets this wide-eyed look.

Getting ready to cry and then crying "I'm ready for my nap!"

She always spits out her pacifier. This is while she's still happy--in a matter of seconds she gets frantic, moves her head back and forth looking for it and then starts to whimper or cry.

One night when I started to feed Eliza, she put her hand up and rested in on the bottle like "stop".
5-6 Weeks Old

Trying to burp. Sometimes she burps within 2 seconds and other times it takes 10 minutes!

Talking to Daddy.
This is a good picture that shows how big her cheeks and arms were starting to get
(and the rest of her is big as well).

This is how she always sleeps. On her side with her arms in front her her.

She loves her baths. This is right after she is done and all bundled up in her towel.

4-5 Weeks Old
Starting to fit much better in her car seat

Our Dainty Little Princess
The first picture is a good example of what I called her "bird mouth". It reminded me of a baby bird wanting to eat.