More hair, "don't hold me", teething and 15 weeks old

Dear Lizzie Sue,

Today you are 15 weeks old. Mommy and I don't see it but everyone keeps telling us how big you've gotten lately. One of your babysitters commented on it after not seeing you for 5 days and everyone at church pointed it out after not seeing you for a couple of weeks. You really are growing up so fast.

More hair is Daddy's nice way of saying the rest of your short hair is finally catching up with those long "rat tail" like tuffs behind your ears. So you no longer look Gramps McCusker with those noticeable bald spots, it is all coming in nicely now. Unfortunately right now you've got Daddy's widow peak going on, so hopefully as your hair continues to come in that will fix itself, or you'll just have to do that whole emo big bangs thing to hide it...up to you.



Recently in the last couple of weeks, at certain times you have been looking for "don't hold me" time. Of course Mommy and Daddy figured this out from trial and error, after holding you screaming in every possible position we know how, we realized putting you down on your play mat that Nana made for you is exactly what you wanted. Now at least once a day we find you just laying on your back on that mat, playing with your rattles and kicking your legs like a turtle stuck on the back of it's shell. Sometimes you do roll over onto one side or the other and more often than not it takes Mommy or Daddy providing a helping hand to get you back to your back. Of course all sprawled out like this just opens you up for more rasberries from Daddy so all in all this "don't hold me" time is a nice releif from Mommy and Daddy's biceps and fun for you too! It also helps us realize just how tired you are when we walk away for a minute or two and come back to find this...


Also in one of the more exciting milestones of your 15 week old life, you've started teething this week. Not that we can see any teeth starting to poke out or anything, it's just the only conclusion we can come up with for you going from completely sound asleep to screaming like you just got your 2 month shots again in 2.2 seconds. You are very much like your Daddy and grumble, mumble, groan in your sleep when we move you, but this is different. Quietly watching TV downstairs with you asleep on Daddy's chest has recently is like playing the board game "operation" Everthing is going great, your reaching in for those spare ribs and then out of no where the nose turns red, the buzzer goes off, and you can't help but jump. That's what Daddy feels like when he's all quiet watching tv, you start screaming out of nowhere and Daddy jumps just like he used to do when he always messed up on that darn butterfly in the stomach.

Anyway I digress, you have to be teething. You have been nawwing on your own hand when you can get it in your mouth. If Mommy or Daddy holds you facing out with a hand on your chest, you scrunch your mouth down so you can naw on our hands. I'm seeing a pattern here, you'll naw on our hands/fingers or your own, yet when we give you a teething ring, the thing your actually supposed to naw on, you just lick it for a little bit and then get bored...explain that one to me pumpkin! Hopefully you'll figured out the enjoyment of teething rings soon, Daddy's knuckles really hope so. Interestingly enough we have heard about a 100 different ideas people have to help with teething, this weekend we'll try some of those out and see what you like...Daddy has his favorite idea, mostly cause if it doesn't work for you, Daddy gets to have the rest...wink wink!

Now if you can just learn to put that pacifier back in your mouth all on your own and how to keep the thing in your mouth instead of spitting it out and it falling on the floor, Daddy's back would be very very happy. Oh yeah and this picture to the left is of your first outfit that's a size 3-6 months...yep you are getting big right before our very eyes!

We Love you,

Mommy & Daddy