My little lady

All about Evangeline 

Evie’s going to be 12 weeks on Thursday, Thursday 29th October 2016. She’ll be 3 months on the 7th October, 3 months!? Its crazy to think my teeny tiny little newborn is going to be 3 months old. It baffles me just how quickly time has flown by, I mean I know I say it on pretty much every other Instagram post and in every other blog post too haha, but I just cannot get over how quickly these weeks are flying by – it feels although I’ll blink and she’ll be 1! 

She’s such a happy, loving, cheeky, inquisitive little lady; brightening up the day of everyone she meets – such a social butterfly, always showing of her beautiful smile. It amazes me how such a tiny little girl can light up the room and melt everyone’s heart. ♡ 

She had her jabs a couple of weeks ago, well more than a couple... almost 4 weeks ago, and she has them again at the beginning of October. I hate every moment, I know it’s good for her, helping her to build up immunities to all of those horrible illnesses, but it breaks my heart. In actual fact, I think I cried more than Evangeline when she was having them being completely honest- I could’ve slapped the nurse that done her jabs haha, I’m sure some of you can relate. 

So she’s completely out grown her newborn clothing - although saying that now is a bit late as she outgrew it weeks ago haha... and some of her 0-3 is a bit snug, she’s actually been able to fit into and wear some 3-6 items this week and the last few weeks, so other than the items she’s worn (as they have already been washed) we’re in the process of washing all of her 3-6 clothing; which is taking forever, she has more clothes than Zachary and I combined lol. 

She’s starting teething now, so we’ve bought her several teething rings – she only likes one that we purchased at boots by Nuby, I believe the one we've got is called the teething keys or something haaha. Other than that one, she doesn't want anything, although in saying that she’d much rather chomp on her fist over any teething ring… 

So we’ve recently started attending a ‘baby play group’ there are some lovely other mummies that also attended; everyone’s so friendly and welcoming. Its nice, I lost pretty much all of my friends during pregnancy some of them I’m pretty chuffed about having absolutely nothing to do with being completely honest, they bought nothing but negativity to our friendship – so its nice to be able to go and meet other mummies, and Evie can socialise with all the other babies. But anyway back to Evie, the first time we attended the group she was asleep the whole time haha; this will probably be a recurring situation as it falls at the same time as her afternoon nap haha – 1 till 2:30pm.

Talking about naps lets talk about her routines, so we’re pretty much set in a solid routine now; I know some people don’t agree with having a routine at 3 months, but actually it works really well for Evie, Zachary and I- and we’ve had this routine since around 3 weeks. So I guess I’ll start from evening to morning...it’s easier to explain haha! 8:30 pm she has a feed, usually a bath and placed into her pjs; then she has a cuddle and falls asleep, around 12-2am she will wake for a feed 90% the time its around 2, she’ll feed, we’ll change her nappy and then put her back down to sleep, she doesn’t normally wake until 5:30am – she has another feed, nappy change, cuddle before falling back to sleep at approximately 6-6:30 am. She’ll wake between 7-8am, a nap around 10:30am after a feed, she'll nap at around 1pm to 2pm, 4pm till 5pm and then the routine continues, filled with nappy changes, feeds and lots of playing and cuddles...so it’s fairly “solid” but don’t get me wrong, it depends on the day really...what we’ve done and how much she slept during the night. Obviously I haven’t gone to in depth into her or our routine, but if you’d like me to do a post going over that – let me know. 

So everyday she’s becoming more alert, she's into so many different things; she loves laying or sitting (on our laps) in front of the telly – she loves the lights and colours that are on the screen. She loves her baby sling or carrier, she LOVES having cuddles, and playing under her activity mat. She adores bath time and splashing around – our little water baby. One thing she defiantly doesn’t enjoy is the forever dreaded ‘tummy time’ and boy does she let us know haha. 

Becoming a mummy has honestly been the most amazing and rewarding experience of my entire life. Watching our little lady blossom and grow – its the best feeling in the world.
I know this was a brief update or chatty kind of post, but I thought I’d round it up, or I’d be typing all afternoon...I hope you enjoyed reading this post – I’ll be doing more ‘update’ kind of uploads in the future; and I’ll speak to you lovely people in my next post. ♡