Hope 3 months old

Hope is three months old today. Boy, how time flies.  She still thinks that she needs to eat every two hours during the day.  But she is actually sleeping at night now.  She sleeps anywhere from 6 to 8 hours at a time.  It is so nice to get sleep.  I'm jumping for joy...can you see me? 
Hope has learned so much this last month.  She has a fake little cough she does ,when she wants attention.  She has discovered her hands and tries to suck on her fingers.  They don't stay in her mouth very long and she gets frustrated and cries that they left.  She is holding toys and reaching for things. She holds her head up quit well now and makes fun baby sounds.  She has the cutest smiles but we can't seem to get any on photo's.  As soon a the camera comes out the smiles leave.  When the camera is put away, the smiles come back.  She is so funny that way.  Last night we gave her baby cereal for the first time.  She loved it. She didn't even do the spit out thing, where half of it comes back out of their mouth.  She just ate it like she had done it a hundred times before. She cried when we took it away and tried to give her a bottle.  She loves her food.  You can probably tell by her chubby cheecks and the3 rest of her.  She now weighs 13 pounds.  WOW.

Loren's father had quadriple bi-pass surgery and is home now recovering.  We are hoping that he will be well enough to travel when we have Hope sealed to us, sometime in Janruary.
This last week has been a stressful one for me.  Coming home to find our dear neighbor had passed away.  Lorens father in the hospital and Loren in Florida, really kept me busy and worrying about things that I really didn't have much control over.  I helped prpared food for the funeral but was unable to attend.  Hope had a bad cold all week and I didn't dare leave her with anyone.  She was pretty grumpy.  Also, Paige had a choir performance,  I went to it and took grumpy with me.  Paige and her group did well.  So did the other groups that performed.  I love Christmas music.  I love the Christmas season and remember to put Christ in my life.