Ahhh, Harper. The sweet little baby that hardly cries, sleeps through the night and melts the coldest of hearts with that silly, off-to-the-side smile that ends in a dimple. She's our little baby girl. Of course, she seems to be doing some things that I believe are reserved for older babies. I'm not sure (and I plan on looking this up shortly after writing this blog), but 9 week old babies are not suppose to start crying when their mom walks out of the room. I believe she is suppose to be content chewing on her right hand (her preferred teething toy is her right index finger knuckle), kicking her feet and watching Reggie walk by, listening to her sister sing some made-up, off the wall song and waiting until her belly tells her she's hungry or her diaper feels wet to cry. Not this one. She is now starting to get upset when I leave her sight. She puffs her bottom lip out, starts to pant and then, with real tears streaming down her cheek, she will begin to wimper and cry. Of course, the upside is that everytime I walk in the room she grins from ear to ear and she tries to follow my voice with her head when I am walking around. It's nice to be wanted so much, but she is going to have to realize that I have to leave her side from time to time.
More "Dr. Evil".
sleepy baby. Harper has started to be able to put herself to sleep. This is great since Lucy couldn't/wouldn't do this until 6 months or so and then we had to let her "cry it out". Harper now puts herself to sleep about 2 times a day and even sometimes in the middle of the night. She is also sleeping through the night about 5 out of 7 nights a week from about 9:30pm until about 7:30am. Then she is starving, eats like a wild animal and then passes out again for another 30-60 minutes. Then she plays for a while, takes a bath, goes out with the fam and then takes a good nap, wakes, plays and then naps for another 2-3 hours in the late afternoon. When she is awake she does a lot of cooing, chewing on her hand and watching her animal friends on her two mobiles. She does not really like tummy time, although she does like playing on her blanket on her side or her back. Actually, when she is on her belly, she does so much moving with her legs that she can inch herself across a blanket onto the carpet. Now, we just need her to start pushing herself up more to build up her neck and back muscles, instead of trying to leap to crawling!
Ahhh, Harper. The sweet little baby that hardly cries, sleeps through the night and melts the coldest of hearts with that silly, off-to-the-side smile that ends in a dimple. She's our little baby girl. Of course, she seems to be doing some things that I believe are reserved for older babies. I'm not sure (and I plan on looking this up shortly after writing this blog), but 9 week old babies are not suppose to start crying when their mom walks out of the room. I believe she is suppose to be content chewing on her right hand (her preferred teething toy is her right index finger knuckle), kicking her feet and watching Reggie walk by, listening to her sister sing some made-up, off the wall song and waiting until her belly tells her she's hungry or her diaper feels wet to cry. Not this one. She is now starting to get upset when I leave her sight. She puffs her bottom lip out, starts to pant and then, with real tears streaming down her cheek, she will begin to wimper and cry. Of course, the upside is that everytime I walk in the room she grins from ear to ear and she tries to follow my voice with her head when I am walking around. It's nice to be wanted so much, but she is going to have to realize that I have to leave her side from time to time.
More "Dr. Evil".
sleepy baby. Harper has started to be able to put herself to sleep. This is great since Lucy couldn't/wouldn't do this until 6 months or so and then we had to let her "cry it out". Harper now puts herself to sleep about 2 times a day and even sometimes in the middle of the night. She is also sleeping through the night about 5 out of 7 nights a week from about 9:30pm until about 7:30am. Then she is starving, eats like a wild animal and then passes out again for another 30-60 minutes. Then she plays for a while, takes a bath, goes out with the fam and then takes a good nap, wakes, plays and then naps for another 2-3 hours in the late afternoon. When she is awake she does a lot of cooing, chewing on her hand and watching her animal friends on her two mobiles. She does not really like tummy time, although she does like playing on her blanket on her side or her back. Actually, when she is on her belly, she does so much moving with her legs that she can inch herself across a blanket onto the carpet. Now, we just need her to start pushing herself up more to build up her neck and back muscles, instead of trying to leap to crawling!
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