ellie is now 12 weeks old. she seems to be doing great... she holds her head up very well and her preferred position seems to be standing (with my assistance, of course) like on my lap or belly. i can tell she is physically strong. and her personality is showing through more and more. she's very smiley and sweet. addison was not really what people would consider an "easy" baby... she cried a lot and LOUD and she wanted to be held most of the time and boy, she was a spitter-upper! but the one thing about addison as a baby was that she was a pretty decent sleeper. usually they say, if your first child is hard, the your second will be easy. well, i don't really think i'd classify ellie as easy either! she doesn't really cry as much unless it's bath time and then she is screaming bloody murder. and she is pretty easy-going and is good about sitting quietly and peacefully in her swing. but unlike addison, she is not really a good sleeper. at 3 months of age, she is no where near consistently sleeping through the night. where as with addison, i believe at this point she was sleeping pretty consistently through. we will have some decent nights with ellie where she will sleep a 6-7 hour stretch. but most nights it's up every 3-4 hours. :( my body is aching because it's so tired. i know we did some sleep training with addison but i can't remember when we started. hmm, i better read my baby books again to refresh myself. so from what i can conclude about our two daughters and their personalities is that they both seem to show lots of emotion... from very smiley and happy... to being fiesty and loud... not really what i would call even-tempered kids. good points and bad points to that i suppose. i should have figured since jimmy and i are both like that. hopefully, our girls won't be too hard on us especially during their teenage years!!

but in the mean time, here's what we're dealing with... :)








just hanging out with teddy and jesse...