12 Weeks

Our little Haly Bean will officially be 3 months old next week on Nov 2. Its been the best three months we could have imagined. Im going to try to start blogging from my phone more so I will be more up to date on my posts.

For her very first Halloween she is going to be a pumpkin. I took some pictures of her yesterday in her costume. It is so cute! Im really looking forward to staying around the house on Monday and passing out candy to trick or treaters. We havent ever passed out candy before. Our neighborhood is pretty big so hopefully we will see some cute costumes! I did consider taking Halyn around in her stroller so Jason and I could eat her candy though haha. Who doesnt like to see a baby all dressed up ;). Last weekend we went to Nashville, IN and walked around all the little shops and ate lunch. We also took Halyn to her very first haunted house- at the children's museum. Jason and I always went every year before we moved to AZ. It was so much fun going back with our own little one!!

Halyn loves to cuddle. She is still doing great sleeping at night. She goes to sleep around 11 when we do and sleeps between 5-7 hrs straight. After she eats and gets a new "diap" she goes back to sleep for another few hours. She is more talkative than ever. She is sitting up a few minutes each day in her bumbo seat and gaining good head control. We always put a rattle or toy of some sort in her lap and she is starting to grasp and shake them around now. She still loves watching her baby einstein videos too.  We love taking her places!!  Just this past week we started putting her in her size 3-6 clothes. Im so excited to see her in all these new adorable outfits!!

Every Monday since she was about 5 weeks old we have been going to new mommy support group classes at the hospital by our house. It has been awesome meeting so many people that live close to us, especially since we just moved to this side of town. Last week we had our first "play date" with a baby friend from class :). So much fun!

Happy Halloween everyone!

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Baby Talk

Halyn's 8 week appointment was last Friday and went great. She now weighs 11 lbs 4 oz and is 21 3/4 inches long. Healthy, growing baby! She is definitely changing quickly. She has started being awake for much longer periods during the day. We put her in her bumbo seat for the first time. Not sure how comfortable she was in there, but she stayed for a few minutes holding her head up! She has been holding her rattles for longer periods of time and grasping for objects like her blankets (or my hair). We put her on her activity mat a lot during the day and she moves her head side to side but no rolling over just yet. She is still really into her baby einsteins dvds. She actually laughs out loud at those puppets. A few weeks ago Jason and I went to a huge baby items sale in Zionsville (Whale of a Sale- definitely recommend going for anyone looking for baby stuff! You can look it up online, theres one in the fall and one in the spring) and got 6 more baby einsteins dvds for only $1 each. She is still doing really well sleeping at night. Since she was 5 weeks she has been sleeping anywhere from 5-7 hours straight- AMAZING for me!!! :) :) :) and she is good at putting herself back to sleep on her own after she eats. I can lay her in her bassinet wide awake and shut the lights out and she falls right to sleep (usually...except last night haha).

Halyn has officially gone out to dinner for the first time with us. We took her for some chips and salsa and margaritas at On the Border! J/k! She did really good though. She was awake most of the time looking around. We've also taken her on a trip to the greenwood mall and taken several walks around our neighborhood with Dakota and Heinz. Last Sunday we went to a new church near our home and I think she was feelin the music, it put her right to sleep. She is still wearing size 0-3 clothes, although she did have a little muffin top in one of her pairs of pants the other day! Maybe they shrunk in the dryer :).



We had a party at our house a few weeks ago for Jason's 30TH BIRTHDAY!!! It was such a blast. Even Halyn stayed up with all of us til after midnight playing catch phrase!!



8 Week Pictures:



First time in Bumbo Seat:


First time laying in crib: (yes I realize the bumpers were on :) )