New Abilities!!

Mikayla is almost 3 months old and she has developed many new amazing abilities such as:

1) Trying to sit - When she was sick, I put a pillow behind her in her bouncer to help with her cough, but that was exactly the leverage she needed to use her strong stomach muscles to try to sit up and escape! Here is a video of her efforts:

2) Holding her head up during tummy time - Mikayla used to HATE tummy time. She screamed the second we put her on her tummy. I was afraid she would end up crawling like the baby in this video. Luckily, after she recovered from her cold, she gained new strengths that she never had before, such as, holding her head up during tummy time! Here is a video of her holding her head up on the floor and on the bed.

3) Grasping her hands together - it is quite cute, she really likes to grasp her hands together over and over again, which looks like she is working on an evil plot!

4) Rubbing her eyes (or nose) - She now rubs her eyes when she is waking up from a nap or getting sleepy, is is very adorable. She was also rubbing her nose and I noticed she had a bugger she was trying to take care of :) 

5) Using pulley systems - She has a new favorite toy. It is a dangling strawberry handle and when she pulls it, it causes a propeller on the toy to spin around. It is her favorite thing to do and she seems to really understand the correlation between her actions pulling the strawberry and the movement of the propeller. Watch her in this video, she really gets into it at the end!

6) Standing - Mikayla is very strong. She can hold all of her muscles steady so we can pull her up her up to a standing position while she just holds onto our hands. I'm pretty sure she's the strongest 12 week old I know! Check her out standing on her quilt and standing on the bed: