What a Week!

It's been a while since I wrote an update!  A lot has happened in the last week or so!  Ellie officially started daycare part time last week.  She did pretty well!  She slept really well and played hard!  The eating was a struggle as we all expected, but by the third day, Erin and Tammy figured out how to get her to take a bottle and she drank a few ounces.  When all else fails, we also figured out that she'll eat milk off of a spoon.  She goes back tomorrow for a few hours and I am hoping that she'll eat while I am gone again.  Keep your fingers crossed!

3 months is an interesting age.  I feel like I had her figured out, then all of a sudden, all of her preferences and abilities changed!  She outgrew her bassinet and being swaddled, and learned to roll over all in just a few days!  The rolling over is a riot.  The only issue is that she can't roll back over, so she gets stuck.  And of course, the majority of her rolling is done while she is sleeping, so she wakes herself up in the process.  It's pretty neat, nonetheless.  I was floored when I went in to check on her and she was completely on her belly!  She is growing up SO fast, it's unbelieveable.  She's very quickly gone from being a "newborn" to being a baby, if that makes any sense.  Here's some footage of her rolling:



I go back to work on Monday, which I am dreading.  I am not ready to go back and leave her all day.  I have an overwhelming sense of guilt about leaving her, but it's what needs to be done.  I've decided to stop dwelling on the fact that I cannot stay home.  We are going to make it a goal to get ourselves in the financial situation for me to stay home when baby #2 comes.  I'm a bit less stressed about the eating.  I know that I can ago and feed her once during the day when she is at daycare and that she will probably accept the bottle soon.  Tuesday was a big step in the right direction when she drank 5 ounces in my absence (2 off the spoon and 3 from the bottle).

Here are some pictures from the week:

Showing some belly :)

Uncle Chris came to visit his favorite girl!

Do you think Kirby is just a bit jealous?

Mmmmm...fingers...

My new favorite picture :) 

Look at that hair coming in :)

Cutest toes in the world!