Where did my tiny preemie go?

Lily now weighs 10.5 lbs and is 22 1/4 inches long!! Holy crap! My baby is getting so big!! Some of her 0-3 month onsies are too tight. She is so alert now too. She wants to look at everything. I am having a hard time feeding her since she wants to pay more attention to everything going on around her than to her bottle. I have tried feeding her in a quiet room with no distractions, but she is just as content watching the shadows on the wall as she is watching to dogs or the TV so that doesn't work either. She is still getting 100% pumped breast milk. I have decided to EP from here on out. We have tried and tried to get the nursing thing down, but its just not working. She latches on fine at first but after a few minutes she gets frustrated and starts screaming. Even if er do have a good session where she seems to eat for 20 minutes or more, she starts screaming for a bottle within an hour, so I am guessing she is not sucking efficiently to get enough to eat so then I have to pump and give her a bottle and the whole process takes 2 hours, then its time to start over. So for the sanity of us both I am going to stick with EPing. My first goal was 3 months, which is coming up quickly. My next goal is 6 months. I think I can do it. Its a pain to be strapped to a pump all the time, but since she is gaining weight so well and seems happy it makes it all worth it. Just looking at her little face melts my heart!

Lily's Pad

Since the nursery originally was designed with boy/girl twins in mind it was very gender neutral and I have been itching to girly it up but have not had the heart. I had done a little here and there but not too much. Well yesterday I decided to girly it up a bit. I would love to paint the walls pink, but I paid a lot of money for the tree decal and I love it so I don't want to take it down because its not reusable. So Lily and I went to Target yesterday and got some of the coordinating pieces to the picture and valance I had already bought. Plus we got a cube storage unit and the fabric drawers. We also got some pink sheers to put under the valance and a pink sheet for the crib and a pink changing pad cover. Here are the results:





I still want to get a pink rug and maybe some more wall art. Etsy has some matching accessories, but I have spent too much money already so I need to wait awhile! Also Target supposedly has some wall decals that match this set, but they were sold out at my Target and they were on clearance so I doubt they will get anymore and they are not available online so I may have to take a tour of all the Targets in the area!

Some photos from our photo shoot

J is an aspiring photographer. He mostly photographs cars, so Lily presented quite a challenge. Here are some recent ones we took: