Happy 3 months! (and our first road trip!)

the penguin keeps shrinking!

Today is E's 3 month-day.  We've unfortunately started a streak of going places on her month-days so there was no song and candle.  We may have to make up for this when we get back home on Sunday.  As of today E can:
-smile - especially at mommy and daddy
-coo - especially if daddy is nuzzling her
-laugh in her sleep
-swat at objects
-hold her head up 90 degrees during tummy time
-drool incessantly
-cry very loudly

She's starting to:
-develop a pincher grip
-work her hands.  It takes a lot of concentration but she can move her hand to objects and open her fingers, sometime she can close them sucessfully around the desired object
-roll over - she's done it on accident a few times

She really enjoys:
-wrestling with her stuffed hedgehog
-playing with her sensory octopus (we named him Oso for over sensory octopus)
-nuzzling with daddy
-snuggling with mommy
-listening to mommy and daddy sing
-doing "exercises" with daddy, where daddy works her legs for her
-watching the fan...fans are facinating

She really dislikes:
-socks
-pants
-getting her nose cleaned out

having a great time with Grandma and Samantha cat

Today was also her first road trip!  She decided to prep for it by taking a 2.5 hour nap right before we left!  She woke up about 20 minutes into the drive and was super hungry so she got her first on the road bottle.  Then we had to stop to change her diaper about 45 minutes after we left.  We used a conviently McDonald's bathroom.  On her way in she managed to make an entire table of 50somethings squeal over her "cute fluffyness".  She was very content to be in her car seat as long as mommy was entertaining her.   She loved her first trip to Woody's  - our midway stopping point to get to Granddaddy and Grandma's house.  She flirted with everyone she saw there and wanted to ride up on the shoulder so she could look around.  About 45 minutes before getting to the grandparents she got pretty fussy, ate part of her second road bottle and kept right on fussing.  

loving the attention from
Granddaddy

As soon we got to Granddaddy and Grandma's house she was happy as a clam, enjoying all the attention they lavished on her and cooing up a storm.