3 months

I can't believe our sweet Raegan Claire is already 3 months old (well, actually almost 4 months, but I just got around to taking her 3 month pics!). We fall more in love with her each day! Raegan weighs about 14 pounds and is about 24 inches long right now. She is now (almost) sleeping through the night. She usually goes to bed around 7:00 each night, wakes up around 11:30 to eat, and then sleeps until I get her up at 6:45 in the morning. She absolutely loves her bath time each night before going to bed. She can be downstairs pitching quite a tantrum and when I take her into the bathroom and lay her down on her towel, she immediately stops wailing and smiles! This girl loves the water! She loves to smile and "talk" to her birds on her bouncy seat and on her playmat. Last week when I picked her up from the sitter they were all out on the back deck. The sitter told me that Raegan had made a new friend today. When I walked outside, Raegan was sitting in her swing looking, smiling, and talking to herself in the mirror! It was so precious! She has also discovered her hands in the past month or so. She has learned to use them to grab and swat at things. She is also SOOOO close to rolling over! I expect her to roll over any day now! It is so much fun to watch her grow and learn every day! I'm excited to see her grow, but at the same time, sad that she is growing up so fast! Okay, enough talk......here are some of my favorites from her 3 month pictures!!

She has a hard time smiling when she is on her tummy. All of her strength, focus, and attention goes to holding her head up high!

Just chillin eating those hands!

Here is just a sneak peek at some of our Easter pictures! I ordered Easter cards, so once those are sent out, I will post the rest of our Easter pics! Wouldn't want to spoil the PRECIOUS Easter cards!!!!!

Some of my favorites....

I can't believe our baby girl is 3 months old now!!! She is such a good baby! She cries when she is hungry, tired, or needs a clean diaper...other than that for the most part, she is just content playing and talking. She still isn't sleeping through the night, but we are getting there. She usually goes to bed around 7:00, gets up around 2:30 to eat, and then gets up again around 6:30. Not too bad of a routine! We've gotten into a pretty good habit of going to bed not long after she does, so we will be investing in some blackout shades when the time changes in a few weeks!! Raegan is such a blessing and we love her so much!!!

Here are just a few of my favorite shots from the past week!

We've decided that she definitely has my dad's eyes. We call them her "GrandBobby" eyes!

3 month picture

Raegan's 2nd Month

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Shutterfly!

If you can't tell, I absolutely LOVE Shutterfly!!! I had gotten several $20 coupons when we registered at various places and I also have gotten several coupons for free photo books!! I do not let good coupons go to waste!! I have tried to be a "scrapbooker" many times, but I get so behind that I get overwhelmed. It also is hard to do if you don't have hours at a time to sit down to work on a scrapbook because of all the mess that you have to drag out!!! So I am naming myself a "digital scrapper!" These shutterfly photo books are reasonably priced and they are so fun to get in the mail!!! I LOVE SHUTTEFLY!!! And no, I am not getting another free coupon for promoting for them!!! Below is my latest photobook creation!

Preparing for Raegan

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Hi, my name is Kim and I am an addict!

Like many of you, I am ADDICTED to PINTEREST! I usually tend to scroll through the thousands of cool and unique ideas during those middle of the night feedings and "repin" away! There are so many amazing recipes, crafts, and ideas that I wish I could try!! Pinterest can bring out the creative and crafty side of anybody.

A couple of my favorite crafts that I made from there include the wreath the I made for our door when Raegan was born (which I have not transformed into a Valentine's wreath) and the canvas prints that I made for my mom for Christmas. I made an 8x10 canvas of each of the grandkids and am going to make her a 16x20 of all of them once we can find time to get everyone together. When I bought her canvas, I also bought a couple of extras to make for myself! I have also learned how to make a scarf out of an old t-shirt and got the idea for Raegan's weekly pictures from Pinterest! I would like to thank the mastermind behind that website!!! I LOVE IT!

Here is the process of making the canvas:

Materials:

Photograph same size as canvas

Canvas

Acrylic Paint

Mod Podge

Sponge Brushes

First paint all the sides of the canvas. I covered the edges of the canvases that I made for my mom with some cute scrapbook paper, but decided that since this one is so large (16x20) that I would just pain the sides.

Once the paint dries, cover the entire canvas with Mod Podge and then lay your photo on top and gently press it down to glue it in place.

Once the photo is glued to the canvas brush more Mod Podge over the entire surface of the photo. I just poured the Mod Podge onto the photo since it was such a large surface. For the 8X10's I poured the Mod Podge on a paper plate.

This is about the point where your heart starts beating fast and you ask yourself why you ruined a perfectly good 16X20 photo!

About 20 minutes later.... you can see the Mod Podge is drying!

Finished product!

I plan on making several more of these and covering a wall with all of them!!! So much cheaper than framing!!!

Probably my favorite Pinterest idea was to take a picture of Raegan every week for 1 year on a different piece of fabric. I am actually taking one of her in the weekly onesie and another picture of her with the wooden "R." I thought her laying next to the "R" would truly show just how much she has grown each week! At the end of the year, I am hoping to make (or have someone make) a quilt using all of the different fabric. I have also already started a shutterfly book of all of her "weekly" and "monthly" pictures. I am documenting all of her milestones and "stats" in that shutterfly book!! It's already super cute and we are only 6 weeks in!! Let's just hope that once I go back to work I can keep up with the weekly pictures! Here are just a few of those pics:

Is it bad that I absolutely love her face in this picture??

Can you tell how much she has already grown?? Her personality is really coming out in the past few days!!! Tomorrow will be our 7 week picture....the fabric is already laid out and ironed!!

Here are some of my other Pinterest creations!

T-shirt turned into a scarf! I made quite a few of these during my "nesting" phase before Rae was born!

Baby blanket made out of material that matches Rae's diaper bag that I bought of Etsy!

Wreath announcing Raegan's arrival.

Same wreath transformed into a Valentine's Day wreath!

Happy crafting!!!

When to find the time....

Updating the blog has definitely not been of high priority on my list of things to do! Most of you have seen many of my pictures and read updates on our life with our sweet baby girl on facebook. However, I do realize that not everyone is on facebook (which I do not understand, hahaha!) For those of you "Anti-Facebookers" here is a little update on our new life!

I have taken the easy way out this past month and a half by posting the shutterfly books that I have created of Raegan on the blog instead of uploading pictures directly to it! We are finally sort of getting into a routine and I feel like I am able to start getting some things done now! Raegan has truly ROCKED our world (in a good way of course!). I never imagined how much our lives would change once she arrived! We have always been on time or early for things...now we have to start getting ready 2+ hours early instead of the 30 minutes that we used to take! There have been many times that I start to get her dressed and we change clothes 3 or 4 times because she spits up all over herself before I can even finish getting her dressed! Enough babbling....everyone knows that we all love blogs because of the pictures!! I have taken over 2000 pictures of her since she was born, so these are truly just a taste of some of my favorites from the past couple of weeks!