1. She finally has a schedule that I am happy with. She naps well and sleeps at least 11 hrs. at night. (Now that I've said it, it will probably change.)
2. She likes to play with paper. Especially magazines. They keep her busy for a long time. I think she likes the crinkly sound they make.
3. She still can't really sit up on her own. Well, she can for a few seconds. But really I think it's because she prefers to lay on her tummy because that way she can roll around.
4. She does not like to sit still for long. She squirms in her car seat, squirms while she's taking her bottle, and don't even think about trying to rock her to sleep....
5. She has adorable little peach fuzz hair that is growing very quickly. I can't tell yet whether it will be curly.
6. She loves her daddy. He can almost always make her laugh. Or distract her from what she's supposed to be doing (unintentionally, of course).
7. She rarely ever cries. Except maybe in the morning when she first wakes up & she wants us to come get her so she can eat, already! Even then, as soon as we go get her, she's smiling & laughing. We are so blessed.
8. When you put her in her crib for bed, she will immediately roll over onto her tummy and curl up with her butt in the air to go to sleep.
9. She clenches her hands together and stiffens her body whenever you go to pick her up. As if she's going to be taking a dive or something.
10. She loves being around other people-- she will sit and stare or look in awe at everything going on around her and rarely make a peep.
11. If she's at home with me by herself (or esp. when her daddy is home), she will scream at the top of her lungs, just to make sure we know she's there. She is "talking" constantly.
12. She has tried: rice cereal, oatmeal, carrots, sweet potatoes, green beans, bananas, butternut squash, peaches, and peas (in that order). I read that it takes a baby 15-20 tries of a food before she establishes like/ dislike, so I won't say yet which she prefers. I have tried my hand at making some of my own foods. So far it seems she doesn't take well to the ones I have made.
13. She eats solid foods at breakfast & dinner. She's still not really very good at it and gets bored quickly. I try to get a total of about 3 Tbls. of cereal in her, with at least a tsp. of a fruit & a tsp. of a veggie every day. This is nowhere near the recommended intake for a "sitter" (that is the stage she is in according to Gerber) but I'm not going to force her to eat if she's not ready. She still gets plenty of milk with her bottles.
14. She has a large red, raised birthmark on her left side, just above her diaper. She's had it since birth, and it's actually getting bigger. The dr. said it may not go away until she's in kindergarten. But obviously, she will be getting bigger, and in turn, it will appear smaller. She also has a reddish birthmark on the back of her neck. It looks more like a rash.
15. Tuesday I actually saw her first tooth coming in. There's a little tiny bud there. Other than chewing on anything and everything she can get in her mouth, it doesn't seem to bother her that she's teething. She really doesn't fuss about it. She loves to get her gums brushed with the little brush I bought her.
16. She loves to play in her Exersaucer. The second you put her in (sometimes before she's even all the way in) she starts playing, beating on the different toys to figure out how they work. She is esp. fascinated with a truck on there. I think it's because she cannot pull it towards her like the rest of the toys. And she's mad at it for that.
17. I know she recognizes mommy & daddy, because she does smile & look at us when we approach her, but she's still not at the point where she will only be happy with us. She doesn't mind hanging out in the nursery or at daycare. Sometimes when I go to pick her up, she looks at me like, "Oh, hi, Mom. I'm fine. You can go now."
18. She seems to like to have books read to her. But mostly she likes to chew on the books at this point.
19. She sleeps with absolutely nothing in her crib. Because she will find some way to wrap herself up in it, or else let it distract her from sleeping. At first we had the monitor hanging from the railing and now we've even had to move that. The kid will find anything to be a play toy. Oh, we do leave the pacifier in her crib. And she plays with that.
20. She is distracted so easily. Here is Leah's train of thought... "Oh, look, feet! I wonder if I can put them in my mouth... Numm numm numm... Hey, I wonder if I can roll over on this changing table... Whoa!... Look, a wall! When I hit my feet against it it makes noise... Oh, look, a diaper... Diaper, diaper, diaper!... Oh, feet! Cool...."
21. She is well on her way to crawling. (see video) She can push up on her arms, she can push up on her toes, put her butt up in the air. I'm convinced she will crawl before she can sit up on her own. And then she will start cruising. She loves to stand up too.
22. She loves to blow air out of her mouth, like she's trying to stick her tongue out but it doesn't come out of her mouth. Maybe it's her way of starting to talk. Or maybe it feels good to her gums.
23. She definately has blue eyes. That are not going to change.
24. She tends to be very gassy. Sometimes she smells like she needs her diaper changed, but actually there's nothing in it. She really only has a poopy diaper maybe once every other day. And sometimes they're really good ones!
25. She has a contagious laugh, an infectious smile, and I love her more than I ever thought possible.
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