In three months time this little girl has shown Lucas and I the true definition of love. It's very true that there is absolutely nothing that makes you love your husband more than seeing him love your child more than he's ever loved anything else! She is truly an incredible bundle of pure love that has already taught Lucas and I so much in so little time!
I think I have transformed into a completely different person since having Penelope... Maybe not completely on the outside but my heart has surely grown with compassion and patience. Patience and I have never been best friends, I can make up my mind pretty quickly about what I want and how to get it and I HAD to be patient to get the one thing I've dreamed of most besides marrying the man of my dreams, and that was becoming a mother. I would have loved to get pregnant the moment we were married and start a family right off the bat, if you know me well you know I have wanted children since I was just a kid myself... I knew what I wanted and I wasn't going to wait any longer than I had to... But I had to wait! I had to wait because we wanted to spend some time with just us before we had a kid, and wait to let the hubs get past some of the tough stuff in school, and wait to save up some money, and wait to actually, finally, thankfully become pregnant! But that patience I learned didn't even get me close to the patience Penelope has taught me!
This new type of patience has just come so naturally, fallen into place like it's been there all along! It's hard trying to get a baby to go to sleep over and over and over again, and it's tough feeding them multiple times through the night... But I did it! It's rough trying to figure out what they need when they cry and soothing their hurting tummy that makes your heart hurt for them... But I did that too! I've done things I never thought I could do and things I didn't even know id have to do, but I did it and I'm proud to say it has been so fun, so fast and furiously crazy, exhausting and tiring that I have absolutely never had a better time doing anything in my entire life! I am now a patient person... Thank you Penelope Lane!
She has really developed so much this last month! It has been a wild and crazy ride going through what seems like a few growth spurts and trying to transition to sleeping on flat surfaces (which we are maybe postponing for a bit longer)... She now holds her head up 100% on her own all of the time, tummy time is never spent with her head down at all she loves looking around and rolling over to her back and then trying sooo darn hard to roll back to her tummy! She's almost there! We have completely mastered her falling asleep on her own, I'm so proud of her! We also put together her bouncy seat and she just loves this little toy on it that spins around and around, it has beads in it that make it sound like a rainstick and I think she likes the noise it makes!
She now stands up on my lap and grips my hands while we sing and dance together... Mainly to "twist and shout" and whatever toddler song I can think of at the moment! We also went to kindermusik for the first time last week with Aunt Jess and Cousin Cody and I truly think she had a good time! She's talking so darn much and just making so many new noises, it's like she surprises herself sometimes and that's absolutely adorable! All the toys she sees are being reached for now and if successfully grasped they go right in her mouth... Her hands seem to always be in her mouth!
We also go on walks a bunch which she had been loving, but just these past few times she won't let herself fall asleep because she wants to see what's going on so she gets mad! We will see how this continues to go because momma needs her exercise... Only 3 more pounds to go till I get back to pre-pregnancy weight!!!
We enjoy this little girl so much, it is just such a wonderful feeling knowing somebody loves you as much as she does, the smiles she gives us just melt our hearts!!
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