3 Months

January..the start of a new year and yet another trip to Bedford to have Christmas with Shad's family. Everyone was was going to be there, well most everyone, Uncle Daniel and his wife Alison were going to be absent. We drove up on New Year's Eve and had made plans to spend the night. Tara is still good to travel with at this age, as she usually goes to sleep as soon as the car starts moving. She slept most of the way up and I did too.
January also brought lots of new things in Tara's world. She started lifting her head for a few minutes at a time and grasping at things for short periods of time as well. She laughs and smiles all the time and turns her head when she hears a familiar voice. I have been the benefit of most of her milestones so far, but she is generous with her smiles and laughs with the whole family. Especially her Uncle Andrew. It seems that everytime she sees him it just calms her down and she has nothing but smiles for him. I think it is because he has a lot of facial hair right now and none of the other men she has seen so far do. She even has more hair than her Uncle Aaron!
The New Year started out great. We had dinner and opened gifts on New Year's Eve and stayed up late to welcome in the New Year. Tara was already alseep by the time I took her to bed in the wee hours of the morning and slept until late in the morning as well. That in itself is a blessing as well. No more middle of the night feedings! I usually try to feed her around 10pm and she sleeps until about 630 in the morning when I get her to the babysitter or to her other grandmas house. I was so surprised before Christmas when she slept through the night. I didn't expect it to continue but it has. She wakes up sometimes during the night, but goes back to sleep as soon as I find her pacifier. I am not sure if that is a good thing to do at this moment, but I will address that in another post. Tara is thriving and doing very well at this stage in her life and I as her mommy couldn't be happier.