The Wyatt Family: 3 Months Old

Well, we have all survived me going back to work. Aubrey is still alive and I didn't have a mental breakdown (although I came close). Mom and Dad came and stayed Saturday through Tuesday so that Aubrey would be with them on my first couple of days back. That was such a blessing! It was much easier to leave her knowing that she was at home with them. Also, mom made a TON of meals and put them in my freezer so that I won't have to worry about coming home to cook dinner. Such a lifesaver! Paulina, the babysitter, started on Wednesday. I seriously thank God everyday for sending her my way. She is amazing. I feel so comfortable leaving Aubrey with her. She is sweet and personable and loving and nurturing and honest and so much more. She does a great job of doing what I ask her to do but is also assertive enough to make decisions about what is best for Aubrey without needing to check with me on every little thing. She is a mom and has a mother's intuition. I know that she really loves Aubrey too which means so much to me. As for me, it is SO hard to be away from Aubrey but in a way it is good to be back in the swing of things. I only teared up at work a couple of times the first day when people would ask about her. But I cried all the way to work on Wednesday when I left her with Paulina for the first time. But after seeing how good Paulina was with her, I haven't had any more breakdowns. I am so ready for summer though!!

I just took Aubrey's 3 month pictures because she had this terrible eye infection and I didn't want her eye to be all yucky in the pictures. Oh yeah... that was another thing. She has been the perfect picture of health for her whole little life and then got this eye infection the weekend before I had to go back to work! Again, thank God for Mom and Dad. They took her to the doctor on Monday which was my first day back. She also stopped sleeping through the night that week. I don't know if it was the eye or the change with me being gone but she decided to start waking up in the middle of the night for the first time in weeks! But now that her eye is better, we are back on track with that now. Thank goodness!

She has started giggling and making all kinds of new sounds. She smiles all the time. She found her hands and loves to stare at them and suck on them. She has started "playing" with her little toys that hang down from her playmat. She will reach up for them and grab them. This makes Ava and Macy so happy. All they have ever wanted was for her to play with toys, so now they are getting their wish. I walked in the other day and found Ava holding Aubrey's little hand and making her push buttons on my iPhone to play a game. Aubrey was just going along with it. Letting Ava move her hand around to find the different rhyming words. : ) She is taking bottles really well and we have moved to about half formula feeding and half nursing but we are slowly moving to more formula. I'm doing the best I can with nursing while being back at work but it is really hard. At night, I put her to bed about 8:30 and then go in and feed her around 9:30 then put her back down and she will usually sleep until around 7:00 or 7:30. She is such a good baby and such a blessing to our family. Here are some 3 month pics!