This girl LOVES bathtime

Mom actually put a bow in my hair today

Our very own adorable cabbage patch doll

This book is hilarious!!! 

Having fun in my jumper

I can lift my head ... this lasted about 2 seconds.  Slowly but surely... 

Easton, the Photographer

She's really into this book...can't get her to put it down. 

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Fun play time with big brother

Mom is making me do tummy time again.  I hate it. 

Thank goodness for my thumb

Funny face

Sitting in the bumbo

Raya officially prefers to suck her thumb rather than use her nuk.  The upside to this is that we don't have to keep putting the nuk in when she spits it out but the downside is we can't cut her thumb off when it's time to stop sucking your thumb!  We'll see how long this phase goes for.  I'm starting to get a little worried about her not pushing herself up on her hands during tummy time.  She definitely should have reached this milestone by now but she just cries when we put her on her tummy and will not even try to push herself up.  I'm trying some different techniques to see if we can get her to do it.  Hopefully before her 4 month appointment next month.  Sleeping has been going better at night.  Lately she sleeps for about 5.5 hours before waking for the first time.  She's been waking around 2 and 5 each night and then goes right back to sleep.  That I can handle!  She's been napping pretty good too.  When I'm home with the kids I've managed to get them both to nap at the same time and this includes the 1 long nap that Raya takes during the day.  Hallelujah!  Momma needs some downtime!  She's still not napping that great for Jake's parents but she'll figure it out soon enough.

Great news: I refilled her prescription and it only cost me $18!!!! woohoo!!! AND they added flavoring this time.  Hoping that helps her keep it down better.  

p.s. I am LOVING working part-time.  I am able to spend extra time with my babies AND am still able to have my professional life as well. I miss them like crazy when I'm at work but it's good to be able to keep up with my career as well.  Life is good.  Busy, but good :) 

3 months

Can't get enough of her smiles

Raise the roof - whoop whoop 

I think Raya has had enough pictures

Trying to get Raya to smile

Dad dressed me today.  It looks like a field of flowers barfed on me.

Back to work I go

The time has come.  I went back to work.  Boo.  I've only been back 1 day.  It was much easier this time around than I remember it being with Easton.  The reason being that I don't need to bring the kids to daycare.  Just thinking of Raya having to be in an infant room all day everyday makes me cry - so I'm so thankful the grandparents are watching her and Easton AND that I only have to work part-time to make this all happen.  I'm still super sad about leaving for work in the morning though :(  Don't ask us to do anything that involves money in the next year though because we're going to be broke as a joke for a year.  But it'll be worth it (as long as we stay above water).   I'm going to become an extreme coupon-er.  Ready for that?  ;)

Raya is officially sleeping in her crib at night and for naps!  It's been going pretty good.  We also moved up bedtime from 10pm to about 7:30-8pm.  This has also been great because it gives us about an hour with both kids in bed before we go to bed.  Although, I REALLY want to go to bed at 8 - I force myself to stay up longer to have some non-kid time...even if my eyelids are weighing 12 pounds each.  The last few nights she has gone about 5 hours before waking up to eat.  Yay! We're going in the right direction :)

Chompers:  I believe Raya is working on getting her first tooth.  Lots of drooling happening and she has been wanting her nuk a lot more than usual.

I was wrong about her medicine in my last post.  The next day we received a letter from insurance saying they will not be lowering the price of her medicine.  Ugh.  BUT the good news is, the medicine is working and she's feeling good.  That's all that matters.