Friday, September 16, 2011

Nursing Pillow

I didn't have a nursing pillow with the boys but I've seen how handy they can be for nursing and other things.  So I googled "free nursing pillow pattern" and I found one that I liked and made myself and my sister in-law one.  They are super easy to make!  The pattern that I found has you making a pillow form and a separate cover with an invisible zipper in it.
Mackenzie seems to really like it and I think it's handy to have while nursing.  I always used just a pillow, but I like this nursing pillow.

 That's my little girl... always with the tongue out!
 When she's laying here for tummy time I'll put toys out all around her and it's really cute to watch her focus on a toy and try to grab it.



After I made the 2 pillow forms and before I made the covers, my boys were fighting over one (remember there are 2) and ripped it!  I used a bed sheet for the form.  It was one I used many years ago for the back of a quilt and I had enough left over to use for the form.  (By the way, I no longer use bed sheets for the backs of my quilts, that was when I first started.)
Yeah, I just made a new one, I didn't think that was fixable.

Nursing Pillow

I didn't have a nursing pillow with the boys but I've seen how handy they can be for nursing and other things.  So I googled "free nursing pillow pattern" and I found one that I liked and made myself and my sister in-law one.  They are super easy to make!  The pattern that I found has you making a pillow form and a separate cover with an invisible zipper in it.
Mackenzie seems to really like it and I think it's handy to have while nursing.  I always used just a pillow, but I like this nursing pillow.

 That's my little girl... always with the tongue out!
 When she's laying here for tummy time I'll put toys out all around her and it's really cute to watch her focus on a toy and try to grab it.



After I made the 2 pillow forms and before I made the covers, my boys were fighting over one (remember there are 2) and ripped it!  I used a bed sheet for the form.  It was one I used many years ago for the back of a quilt and I had enough left over to use for the form.  (By the way, I no longer use bed sheets for the backs of my quilts, that was when I first started.)
Yeah, I just made a new one, I didn't think that was fixable.

Thursday, September 15, 2011

3 Month Pictures

I took Mackenzie to Portrait Innovations to get her 3 month pictures.  I fed her there so she would be happy for her pictures.  And I have to say, I think she was happy!  They were so cute!







 










 Isn't she super cute?

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Mackenzie is 3 Months Old!!!

Wow, my baby girl is 3 months old!  I am so blessed to have this little angel in my life!!!!  I just love her so much and I think she is the cutest little girl ever!!!!
She has really been smiling lots!!!!  She especially smiles at mommy when mommy smiles at her and I just love it!  She has started to get really excited when I get closer to her and start to pick her up, she'll kick her legs and move her arms really fast and sort of make an excited noise.
The other day I had her in her chair on top of the table as I was unloading the van.  Every time I came in with a new load of stuff she'd smile really big at me and move her legs and arms really fast.  I was so excited that she really noticed when I came in and was happy to see me!
Her 2 month check up was really closer to her being 3 months, it was on Sept 29th.  She weighed 12 pounds 1 ounce, 24 inches long and her head was 16 3/4 inches round.  She is doing great!
She loves to chew on her hands and grab her shirts, dresses and blankets and chew on them too.  If her hand is near my hair, she will also grab a handful of hair and I have to pry her fingers open to get her to let go.  I'm waiting for her to get her thumb.  I'm really hoping she will stop crying a lot when she finds her thumb.  She really cries when its time for a nap, she's so hard to get asleep.  She is only happy for about 20-30 minutes after she's done eating then she gets real fussy.  If you don't put her down at the right moment, it's real hard to get her asleep.  And when you have other kids to take care of, sometimes you miss the prime moment to put her down for her nap.  She's still sleeping in the baby swing, but occasionally I can get her to sleep for a little in  the bassinet.  She's doing good with waking up once during the night to eat and going for 7 hours.  She did do 9 hours once, and for a nursing baby at 3 months that's considered sleeping through the night.  Too bad, she's only done it once so far.
  She's not rolling yet and really she doesn't get any alone time on her tummy or just laying on a quilt.  Her brothers are always right there trying to play with her the second I put her down.  The poor little girl is always being smothered by her brothers.  And if they aren't there, mommy wants to play and cuddle her.  :)
She is cooing and talking and I love to hear it!
She loves to lay on the floor watching the TV especially when the Phillies are playing.  One time she was laying there watching and I picked her up and she started crying, I laid her back down and she stopped.
When I put her in her vibrating chair she loves to look at the black and white cards and has really started to look at the toys that hang from the bar.  And she seems to also enjoy looking at the toys on her little play mat too.
As always I took a lot of pictures of her on the day she turned 3 months!  She was pretty miserable this day and I actually had to reschedule her appointment with Portrait Innovations because she was just miserable all day.  And we had a lot of rain and a lot of flash flooding.  So I was surprise to actually get some smiles out of her, for how miserable she was.




She still loves to stick her tongue out!  She has not outgrown that yet.  And she really likes when I stick my tongue out at her, move it around and make noises with.  It's fun to watch her facial expressions.





I did give her bath during the day and her hair was all cute and fluffy, but she sweats so bad when she nurses!  I mean she looks like she just got another bath when she's done.  So her hair looks like it wasn't washed because of the poor little girl sweating so much.

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Mackenzie's Blessing

Dave blessed Mackenzie at church on Sunday.  For those who aren't members of our church (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) reading this blog... We don't believe in baptizing infants.  We believe in full immersion baptisms and we believe age 8 is the age of accountability and that is the age you need to be in order to be baptized.  So babies are blessed with their name and given a blessing during sacrament meeting.  
Dave gave Mackenzie a beautiful blessing!  And we were lucky to have a lot of family stand in the circle!
My mom made Mackenzie's dress, headband and booties, as she made the boys outfits too.  Isn't she beautiful!











After church we had a lunch at our house with family and some friends.  All the little kids were eating their ice cream on the bike ramp so I had to take their picture.  You can't see them all in the one, so there are 2 pictures.


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