3 Month Stats

 3 Months Status Update

I can't believe I'm actually writing this! Joshua is 3 MONTHS OLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This blanket may not work much longer as a photo backdrop...he's getting too big!!

Mommy is in the picture too! 

Wrapped in swaddling clothes! 

He's so big; it doesn't seem fair...haha

It's insane.

Time flies. 

Literally. 

Joshua is currently 14 lbs. 9 oz. and is 26.5 inches long. He's growing again...pretty soon even the 6 month clothes won't fit!

This month past month, Danny and I enjoyed our first Thanksgiving with Joshua,

as well as some beautiful temple light displays and music. Joshua only cried during the performance when the music STOPPED. Nice right? We have a music lover!

We met a new friend, Tillman--pretty awesome to have a friend with a baby the same age as Joshua! They're best buds already! Though...Joshua did try to roll over on him a couple of times. They tried to hold hands!


We put up the tree, and the house lights. The tree hasn't been attacked by the cats yet. Thankfully. ;P

We have tried sitting in the bumbo, and sometimes we lean too far...

We spin in circles in the jumperoo...

And listen to mommy read stories with lots of contrast.

We also tried playing the piano with mommy. Long fingers will definitely help there! (Joshua did put his hands up there on his own and hit a couple keys accidentally. He also fall asleep to me playing once in a while if he's having a rough time napping, or if we're at choir practice.

We went to visit Santa at the ward Christmas party. Joshua didn't seem to care that he was sitting on the lap of a man dressed in a red suit...he was pretty chill. We'll see what happens next year. Muahhaha!

We took pictures of Candy Cane lane lights...they're very pretty. If you haven't been to both the temple light display and the Candy Cane Lane display, you have GOT to go. It's such a fun Christmas tradition to do as a family!

Mommy and Daddy have been helping in choir, so Joshua got to listen to lots of music! (today in church, he woke  up when the cello played. Future cello player? I think so!)

We took family Christmas pictures--very fun and such a photogenic baby he is!

It's really been such a delight to be Joshua's mother. There are definitely times even now that I want to pull my hair out because I just don't know what to do, but it's all worth it! He is the most incredible baby and brings a beautiful Spirit into our home. I sit in sacrament meeting sometimes and watch the deacons pass the sacrament, and look at the ward missionaries, and I think to myself, "That'll be Joshua one day." It can't happen too fast. That's my only hope, though I know it's futile.

This Christmas season, I've had to remind myself often that it's most important to remember our Savior--the REAL reason for Christmas. It's been difficult amid the hustle and bustle of getting present wrapped, making Christmas treats, going to light displays, and just trying to do it all for this first Christmas as a family.

But I've realized something.

I CAN'T do it all. So what's the point in stressing over it?                                                      That's right.

There isn't one. I've had to step back and take time to drink in the moments with Danny and Joshua, and just enjoy being a family. To be a family: What a blessing that is! We're so fortunate to have the knowledge and temple covenants that families can be together forever! I LOVE that! Here's to all the future memories to be made as a family!

                                                                    Merry Christmas to all!