Twelve Weeks Old!!

In what feels like a matter of days, months have flown by! And somehow, when I look at her I feel like we've lived a lifetime together all ready!
There is nothing more amazing then watching your little one grow! She is turning into her own little person! I see a little more of her personality everyday! She is so alert now and I can tell that she has so much going on in that curly head of hers.
Daddy came home from California on Sunday while Lily and I were driving back from Jacksonville! And we have been busy busy all week!
Lily had a doctor's appointment on Monday. She had some orange-pink spotting in her diaper 4 times the week before. I called the clinic on Friday and since the advice nurse wasn't there they went ahead and made me an appointment just to be safe! Everything is fine! Breastfed little girls can have periods and even lactate when they are born from all of their mother's hormones! I knew all of that but had never heard of it happening past the first few weeks of life! The doctor said not to change anything that I'm doing because she looks great!! And she weighs 13 pounds 3 ounces!!! I was guessing around 10 or 11 pounds lol!! She is just getting so big:)
Other than the appointment Thomas has been working and doing school work all week. And on Tuesday I took some pictures of a friend of mine and her 18 month old daughter!! It was my first time shooting someone outside of my family so I was pretty nervous but so excited to get some practice!! I've been editing the pictures non-stop since and am really proud of them!! I know I still have a ways to go but I think I'm getting the hang of it:)
Lily has been a trooper! She came to the shoot with me and chilled in her stroller the whole time! And she was been great swinging right next to me or sitting in her bumbo seat by mommy while I work! She is having some constipation though so she's needing lots of extra snuggles;)
Funny story about the swing... She's too heavy now! The poor little motor isn't strong enough to swing her back and forth anymore!! It just kind of rocks a little! I pretty much have to push it! well, that wasn't that funny and it wasn't really a story... but owell! Thought I would throw that in there!!
We've started Tummy time!! She gets 30 minutes on her tummy a day for right now! She doesn't do it all at once. I think the longest she's gone straight is 7 minutes Monday morning! But she doesn't hate it too much! And she's sleeping on her stomach in the morning and at naps [to help with the tummy aches] so I think that is helping it along too!
Oh, and the drool is getting a little crazy lol! I really don't want to say that she's teething yet because she's not chewing on toys or anything yet and she isn't too fussy or running a fever andddd it would break my heart to think that we're at that stage already!! But I think it could be coming soon! I did get a little excited today thinking about her getting her first tooth! It's amazing to see how much she has changed already and to think about what is still ahead for her!! But goodness I'm going to miss my tiny Lily bug!

OH MY... I almost forgot the most exciting thing of all!! She laughed for the first time the other night!!!! [[I bawled my eyes out lol]] I was sitting on the couch with her talking to her... we have little conversations now, I'll say something and she'll babble back and we just go back and forth for a few minutes! But this time she opened her mouth really big and half coughed half laughed at me! She looked just as surprised as I did! She cooed and giggled a little and then laughed again!!! Thomas just looked at me and we were both just shocked! And then I started crying and laughing! Thomas was like "Don't cry, make her laugh again!" But that was it!! I called my mom to see if Lily would laugh over the phone but no luck!! It's such a beautiful sound though!! That's what dreams are made of right there!!