Three Months!

Dear Teagan,

You are three months old now! Three whole months! This past month has brought exciting things, like sleeping through the night! Of course, it isn't all the time, or even most of the time, but when you do there is much rejoicing. Well, actually there is much sleeping, but there is rejoicing when I wake up and realize it is morning and not two am. And the napping! The long naps you occasionally grace us with! I run around like a crazy woman, doing dishes and folding laundry (with a good dose of knitting and reading and surfing the internet - no one can live on housework alone) while you blissfully sleep. Oh the sleeping, how we love the sleeping.



You've done more than just sleep, of course. You learned how to suck your thumb, and how to roll from front to back, and from your back to your side. You can also wiggle yourself in a complete circle, rotating on the axis that is your bum.

The absolute best thing is your laugh. You started to laugh this month, and it is the sweetest sound on this earth. The first time you laughed, we were having a lovely conversation where I asked you probing questions on the state of world, and you answered with much babbling and drooling. Then you let out a great big laugh. You looked so shocked that such a sound emerged from your body, and you went perfectly still. Then you started to cry.

Being little is hard sometimes, isn't it?

I can tell you now that being a Mommy involves a lot of worrying. I worry that you aren't eating enough, or you are eating too much, or if you are growing too fast or too slow. I worry that you might poke your own eye out with your amazing flailing fists. I worry that you might be getting bored, and immediately pull out all your toys and wave them in your face while you stare at the crazy lady. Right now I am a little worried that your hair is going to fall out. The back of your head is getting that fuzzy look of a well loved stuff toy. Although, if your hair did fall out then your Daddy and I could stop arguing about how red it is on any given day.



I don't think I have told you this yet, but I dreamed about you before you were born. While I was pregnant I had a dream that I gave birth to this amazing squawking round headed baby with massive amounts of red hair. In my dream, we named you Maeve. When you were born, you looked exactly like the baby in my dream. We had a last minute change of heart though, and named you Teagan - since the baby in my dream screamed A LOT.

Mommy thanks the heavens every day for your lack of screaming.



Love, Mom