I know everyone always says that their child is the cutest, most intelligent, best behaved, etc, etc...but ours REALLY IS!! haha. She may not be a child prodigy just yet, but she sure is smart for being almost 6 weeks. She started smiling only a couple days after she was born, and MS swears that she giggled when she was only a couple of weeks old. She is a social smiler now, which is truly the most fun I have ever had. She loves her changing pad, and will coo and look up at her elephants on the wall for a long time. She smiles and coos when you give her zerberts on her tummy, too! She is already holding her head up by herself for 30 seconds or more at a time - so strong!! Maybe it's because she was a week late, so really she is developing at a week faster than most babies, but she really learns very quickly. She LOVES tummy time (most of the time) and can almost roll over. She will put her legs and butt up in the air as if she wants to crawl, but can't quite figure out her arms. I know she won't start crawling for a while, but it seriously looks like she wants to go when she's on her tummy!!
We are starting to get a little routine down, and the last two nights she has actually slept through the night...hoping I am not cursing our good luck streak by saying it out loud. She usually goes down for about an hour nap around 12 or 1 in the afternoon, and then goes down again around 3 or 4 for another hour, maybe two hours if I am lucky. She is then up and wanting to play when she gets up from her afternoon nap, so we sing and play the hokey-pokey, and have some good tummy time, and walk around the house and look at all the fun pictures and then we stare at the kitties playing. She then will eat, and then comes her fussy time around 7:30 or 8:00 and she will fuss for about an hour (sometimes more...) and then finally around 9 or 10 we will feed and swaddle and she will go down. The last two nights she hasn't woken up until about 5 in the morning, but before then she would wake up around 2 or 3 and then we would eat, swaddle and she goes right back to sleep.
I really feel truly lucky to have such a great baby. She does cry and is fussy at times, but for the most part if I can figure out what is making her mad she stops right away. I definitely do not have it all figured out just yet, but we are having fun learning from each other!!
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Hey Kel! I cannot wait to meet that little prodigy! Ame and I were talking about how janky we are for not having called you yet! I can't tell you how much we think about you and your little family though! And we keep up via your blog and facebook! When can we come up to see you...and the babe!?
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