Adventures with the Nelson Family: The Lion Sleeps Tonight

Pumpkin bear is 3 months old this week! Where did the time go?! She is in 6 month clothes, size 2 diapers and has thighs that can hold up a baby grand piano per Grandma O. She has very avid chats with "Freddy the Fan" in our living room now and really enjoys being a full scale smiley ham when anyone is paying attention to her. Her coos melt my little heart! The only time Lilah gets upset at us is the dreaded tummy time. She really doesn't understand the purpose and spends the entire time face down in the blanket growling and snarling. Not a single head lift. We end up all pretty defeated at the end of it.

How can you not love this?

Lilah rang in her mini-birthday party on June 25th with a little ice cream cake enjoyed by the adults. We felt a little bad that we were having all the fun, so we dipped her pacifier in a miniscule bit of the ice cream... and she didn't protest! Ben is going to have to learn to share the ice cream in his house... or Lilah is going to have to work fast after it comes home from the grocery store to beat her dad.

3 Months :)

We had another landmark in our house when Lilah decided to sleep for 8.5 solid hours!! Best part of it was that I slept well too! Best night in 5 months! Her diaper was dry the whole night. Any luck that she'll be ready to potty train in 2 weeks?

It was Indianapolis Zoo day for the Nelsons and Grandma O. It was awesome! (For those of you in Nebraska, the Omaha zoo is still tops... but the zoo here was still pretty cool!) The dolphin show was fantastic except for having to breast feed in the middle of a crowd of a zillion children, near the "splash zone," with Lilah acting like a thrashing baby gorilla at the breast. But by far the best entertainment I've had while trying to breastfeed! Petting sharks, feeding giraffes, bird aviaries, watching the baby elephant splash in the lake... too fun! I learned a few alarming facts that made me appreciate my fellow mammals more. The zookeeper was telling us about the artificial insemination of the elephant that led to the baby being born (yea.... imagine that) and how the mama elephant nurses the baby elephant. Did you know that baby elephants breast feed until their 2 years old... with TUSKS! #!%*&)(*!!# Yowsa. Rhinos are pregnant for 16 months! Not to mention the babies are 140 pounds. Blows my mind. Poor pregnant rhinos. Eeks.