Put me to sleep little angel

Starting from when she was a wee young sapling, I started to put her to sleep by covering her face with my hand, now she is addicted and can go to sleep in less than two minutes.

She normally grabs my hand or fingers to get me to stay there, and if I move then before she is asleep she gets very sensitive about it and screams at me.

Now she has learned that she can have the same affect on herself. As long as she is not too tired and she is in a comfortable place she can put herself to sleep.

Three months

Monday, May 25th she turned three months old.

At three months she is in the 25 percentile for her length and weight.
11 lbs 1 oz
23 1/8 in

Uncle Mike stayed with us for a week and a half, coming over from Seattle to meet his newest little niece.

After I chose to post this picture, I noticed that she is doing the same thing with her fingers as her uncle. Too cute!

Her new favorite hobby is to see how much of her fist she can fit in her mouth.

Dumbo, the flying elephant...

Month Date

The deliciousness of love is three months old today!

...and she is moving...

Our new house is west Chicago suburbs, a great place to learn to crawl, and a nice park just three blocks away.

Time to sleep

Ever since she was two weeks old, she has been sleeping in her bassinet. She has been sleeping through the night regularly since she was 3 weeks old. The longest she has slept without waking up is 12 1/2 hours. Since she turned a month and a half she has been sleeping nine to eleven hours a night.
I try to give her a schedule for bed time to get used to. She will start going down between eight and nine in the evening, after her last feeding, she gets all snuggled in one of her warm blankets in her bassinet with a pacifier, and she puts herself to sleep most of the time.

Two and a half months

Here are some of my favorite pictures that I took yesterday. She was in such a good mood, smiling so much that before I knew it I had taken so many pictures and it was hard to choose which ones to post. So here is a bunch, this first being my most favorite.

Monk

As you may have noticed I buzzed her head as the hair on the top was falling out and only the very back was staying long. Now it is all even and starting to grow out again after two weeks.
We did this little photo shoot as it was appropriate with her bald head.
She enjoys her photo shoots immensely, smiling the whole time.

10 weeks old

Mafiosa

Here is the start of some themes for her modeling portfolio. She does so well getting her photo taken!

DISCLAIMER: THESE PICTURES WERE TAKEN SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSE OF THEME PHOTOGRAPHY. A FAKE CIGAR WAS USED FOR THE SHOOT. THE CHILD WAS NOT EXPOSED TO AN TOBACCO, SMOKE OR ALCOHOL DURING THE SHOOT.

Specially for aunt Grace

Uncle Sammy arrived here on the 21st, and just now took some pictures with his niece.

With new people she studies them, especially when they are talking.

She is starting to prefer being held up to look around rather than being cradled.


She's too delicious for words!!

After walking her around she fell asleep in his arms, so cute!

Two months old

On April 25th, Giselle turned two months.

Today at her doctors appointment she was weighed and measured as follows:
9 pounds, 5.5 ounzes
22 1/2 inches

"I'm happy because I am SO beautiful"

Sleep

Daddy time, our favorite pass time

Two weeks

Four weeks

Six weeks

8 weeks

Videos

Was just able to upload some of the videos that we have of Giselle, granted she's still a newborn and is not that active, but she's cute and I'm sure some of you will enjoy her in action.

Here she is one week old. She woke up but found her fingers and put herself back to sleep.



Her first video. I was putting her to bed, but she was being all fussy. I put on a cartoon, so that the noise in the living room would be drowned out, I left the room for a moment to get her some clothes and when I came back, she was all quiet just watching the cartoon.



Sometimes, while she is still sleeping, she will cry out, but not wake up, but then be all calm again.

At 5 1/2 weeks

These were taken a week and a half ago when she was 5 1/2 weeks.

Laughing at mommy

Smiling at uncle Danny

So fresh and so clean clean...

Relaxing after a long day of feeding and sleeping.

Baby portraits

Who do I resemble more?

Like Mother, like Daughter?

Like Father, like Daughter?

Sister?

Grandpa

First time meeting one of her grandparents.
Here with Grandpa McGraw

Sorry about the lack of posts, will catch up this week.

Sisters

Similar pictures taken with his baby brats 5 years apart.

Here is Janine Ximena born to Andrew and Mari on the 3rd of November 2003.

Find the similarities yourself, there are quite a few.