Wow, 3 months!

Yep she's still growing! Another month has come and gone and Hallie keeps getting cuter, and is learning more and more every day. She is also making it known that she has her own ideas of how things should be done, and seems to be pretty strong willed. We're trying to "break" her, but as of now, she is winning the battle of wills. Oh well, we've got time to make sure we don't spoil her too much, for now we're just having fun. I love to read, but have not had the time since Hallie was born. I also knew that I tend to become so engrossed in good books that I ignore everything else that needs to be done until I finish the book. Well, I finally caved after hearing form multiple people how great the "Hunger Games" books are, and bought the first in the series... And well, it was good, really good, so good in fact that I neglected my husband and sweet daughter for two days straight to read. Grant tends to "act out" when I don't pay enough attention to him, so he started to steal my book. This is a picture of him opening the book to a random page and just reading whatever he found in hopes that he'd ruin a surprise later in the book. Later that night he hid my book and made me play "warm/cold" to find it :( Hallie was a champ though, and handled her neglect like a pro. I have felt bad the past couple days however, as she seems a little more clingy, and excessively excited when I pay attention to her. Hmmm, maybe I need to work on finding balance a little more...

This picture is proof of our daughter's intelligence. She's batting at her toys and grabbing for them. Woohoo, she's not dis-intelligent!!!

And the bouncer- I would argue this, disposable diapers, and pacifiers are the greatest inventions ever!

Hallie's new Bumbo- she likes it, we have yet to see if it becomes as loved as the bouncer.

Hallie outgrew the baby bath this month...

And graduated to the big kid bath. She didn't know what to do with all the extra room to splash around.

We took a "nature walk" a couple weeks ago on a nice warm day- Spring fever has hit all three of us pretty hard. Too bad the storm that has been hitting the east coast left us with 6 inches of snow. Can't complain too much though, it's still nothing compared to what we are used to in Idaho, and Grant got his first snow day since he was 15 on Tuesday. Hallie and I are both big fans of surprise days with Daddy.

And I just like this picture of my loves...Yep they're cute!

That's what Hallie's been up to in her third month of life. Grant and I have just been trying to juggle life. Balance, yes that is what we are trying to work on. Hallie took her last bottle on January 2nd, and has refused to have anything to do with them since then. With the bottle refusal, we were forced to try to nurse her when we are out and about, only to find that our daughter HATES to be touched while she is nursing and will scream if you try to cover her up. Two very big problems when you're trying to feed a baby somewhere other than your house. This has made going out for more than 11/2 hours at a time pretty much impossible. BUT, on the bright side, ( I think about this daily to keep my sanity as I am becoming increasingly stir crazy) Hallie can start rice cereal next month. There is a light at the end of the tunnel and it's approximately 30 days away. We are hoping that when she starts baby food we will be able to "get up and go" a little more easily, and dare we dream- stay out for more than 11/2 hours at a time.

We are also working on some projects around the house. We will hopefully have our extra cabinets finished in the kitchen soon, and we'll put up pictures. We are also shopping for some furniture to fill our empty rooms. We figure this will probably be the last time we ever get a tax return now that we're "grownups", but Uncle Sam was very generous this year and we are loving having the money to get some of the things for our new house that we talked about when we bought it.

I also had a great birthday, Hallie slept like a champ for me, and Grant bought me the Magic Bullet blender I've been wanting. So now after Christmas and my birthday I can pretty much blend or mix anything I want. It is ridiculous how happy this makes me- no sarcasm.

Life is good! We're good! And our baby is the cutest kid I've ever seen! At least once a day I have to pinch myself, because I really can't believe that my life would turn out so much better than I could have ever imagined.