three months.

lately i've been telling my girls: "i could kiss you for a million days and it still would never be enough!"  it's seriously true.  emmy is a little over three months now and wow do i love this little girl.  she is honestly the squeezy-est, sweetest, smiley-est baby and just fills my heart to overflowing.  the most precious little blessing.

  i honestly don't remember life without my emmy faith.  she brings so much joy into our family and our home.  to me, she resembles hope that god so graciously blessed us with during such a dark season in our lives.  her bright, shining eyes, smiles and squeals remind me on the hard days that there is still so much joy in this life.  it makes me cry to think of my dad not getting to hold her, but i feel somehow that he sees her and knows her even if not in the way i always hoped for.

here are some notes on our precious em:

- one of my fav things is when she gets her bottle before bed, she'll always find one of my fingers and grasp onto it while she eats.  it's so sweet.
- speaking of eating, nursing has been a bit of a challenge lately.  she will eat a bit and pull away to just stare at me or smile.  our second little social butterly; she always has to know what's going on.  even if it's just me and her.  but especially if big sis is jumping around the living room.

- girl loves to stare.  i try to tell her it's rude, but it's honestly so cute.  she fixates on people and just stares at them, studying everything about them.  seriously.  if i'm hold her, every time i look down at her, her little eyes are looking right at me.  i love it.
- smiles upon smiles, this little one.  she is seriously the happiest baby i've ever seen (i know, of course i'd think that, right?  i'm her mom).  but still.  it's true.  every time i go in her room to get her up in the morning, or when she wakes up from a nap, the minute she hears the door open i can see her little eyes searching the room.  and the minute she sees me, here comes the smiles.

- i love how she startles.  i know that sounds weird, but everything jumps her like crazy.  her eyes get real wide and if she's laying down, all four limbs spring wide open.
- she started "standing" about a month ago and has rolled over a couple of times.

- biggest milestone of late: i'm happy to say that she is *finally* sleeping through the night and in her own crib.  hurray.  she does so well being put down for naps and for nighttime.  puts herself to sleep so well and has been usually sleeping until about 5:30 or 6.  what a difference from the first month or so.  i am one happy mama.

- she's already a chatterbox.  one morning i had nursed her early and fell back to sleep with her between nick&i.  i woke up to her laying between us talking away as we were both sound asleep.  it was adorable.
- teething has begun.  she has her fingers, a blanket or even her entire fist in her mouth at pretty much all times.

- she's such a chill baby (once we got past the 11-1 am fussy time trying to get her to bed!).  we thought bella was a pretty easy infant, but emmy takes the cake.  she really doesn't cry much at all... there have been many days when i've been at my wits end with the "terrible twos" that i thank god for blessing me with such an easy baby!  or else i just might have lost my mind about a month ago.  thanks, ems.
- she started laughing a couple weeks ago and it's the cutest sound i think i've ever heard.

my heart has been stolen again by my littlest love.  some of my favorite moments of each day are just squeezing her, holding her in my lap, making her laugh and tickling her nose against mine.  she is such a gift and i thank god for her every day.