Past the 3 month milestone

Welp, Esther is 3 months old now (14 weeks tomorrow). Time has been flying by lately, and she has been growing like a weed.
Esther has learned 2 new tricks in the past couple of days, right about at 3 months.
Her first trick is that she reaches out and grabs her "bug on board" that is attached to her bouncy seat. She typically only reaches and grabs with her left hand, but she is starting to use her right hand just a little bit. Maybe she'll be a lefty? She will extend her arm straight out, and then slowly pull it back toward her face and up to her mouth or to her left eye. Her poor little eye takes a beating sometimes. She also likes to suck on her hand, which really calms her down sometimes. She can get pretty noisy when she's eating her hand though...making contented little sounds.
Esther's second trick is doing sit-ups in her bouncy seat. She will raise her head up and then lean forward, crunching her upper body like she's doing a sit-up. She makes funny grunting noises when she does this too. Molly and I had to start strapping her in to her bouncy seat because she is getting a lot stronger and more wiggly now. Molly has counted Esther doing about 15 sit-ups at one time! She is a strong little girl.
Daddy has baby-sat Esther a couple of evenings now for 3-4 hours at a time, and Josh and Carolyn have also baby-sat Esther once. Esther does great for Daddy, and just needs her bottle when it's time to eat. She is a good, happy little baby. She has only had a couple times lately where she wouldn't go to sleep at night. She gave Mom a hard time one day last week, not going down for a nap, but her usual day involves several naps. Today Esther was rudely awakened by the new neighbors drilling and hammering something into the wall of their bedroom next to Esther's room. Hopefully that will only last for one afternoon...
Esther had a good Easter at Grandma and Grandpa Mathews house. She got to see nearly everybody. Esther wasn't sure what to think about the NCAA Basketball Tournament. She enjoyed watching on Dad's lap on Friday night, but when Craig, Tot and John (Craig's friend) came over to watch Butler play on Friday afternoon, Esther got scared when everyone cheered a couple times. She stuck out her bottom lip and looked really sad, and then let out a big wail. Daddy eventually calmed her down though...poor little girl.
Esther is growing every day! Daddy thinks that every day when he comes home and sees Esther that she looks a little bit older. Her face seems to mature on at least a weekly basis, and she is getting longer.
Esther and Mommy and Daddy can't wait for it to warm up outside!! It is officially Spring now, but it sure doesn't feel like it (in the 40's, low 50's with rain / snow). Mommy is anxious to take Esther out to work in the garden with her. Mommy plans to take Esther to the zoo to see the butterflies soon!