What is this thing on my head?
Remove it at once!
Ah, much better.
I can't believe how fast time is going by. We have had lots of new developments lately:
- she is sleeping much better at night. Suddenly when we hit the 4 week mark something changed. She seemed to figure out her days from nights. She takes much shorter naps in the day (typically a late morning nap, an afternoon nap, and an early evening nap) each lasting about an hour or less. At night she goes down by 9:00pm, sleeps 'till about 1:30am, wakes up for a feeding, goes back down until around 4. I can usually feed her at that time and get her to go back down until at least 6:00am. This makes for a somewhat well-rested and happy mom! As she gains weight and her stomach gets bigger she should sleep for longer stretches at night. And some magical day I will put her down at 9 and she won't wake up until 6:00am! :)
- she is SO much more alert and active during the day. She smiles and laughs with us, and interacts when we play with her. We play with her toys every day. We also try to go for a walk every day in her Ergo carrier. She loves looking at things, out the window, at faces, basically taking everything in. Every day she changes a little bit more! She's also rocking at tummy time. She lifts her head and turns it to the other side.
- the transition to her room went really well. She is sleeping fine in there, and I sleep much better not having her in our bedroom. She is still sleeping in her rock 'n play. I have purchased a wedge to elevate the crib, to see if that makes her like it better. But I've decided to not stress about her not sleeping in the crib. We'll keep working on it, and hopefully when she is 3 or 4 months she will start sleeping in there.
- Randy took some Fridays in August off, so he can be home with us more. We love having daddy home! We are looking forward to a fun month of spending time together as a family.
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