Andrea’s Weblog

Elizabeth is definitely getting bigger—I think she’s up to 12 pounds if
our bathroom scale is correct. She’s outgrown a lot of the 0-3 month
size outfits, mostly because she’s too long. What’s strange is the tags
in these tiny little outfits are not proportionally small. It would be
like you or I walking around with a tag the size of our palm sticking
out of our shirt. I guess if they made the tags any smaller, the
grandmas picking out baby clothes couldn’t read them. I also had to do
a quick order of diaper covers for her cloth diapers. It’s definitely
not a good thing when they no longer have adequate coverage.

Elizabeth is noticing more about her surroundings. She’s caught several
glimpses of Coozie, our black and white cat. I’m surprised that it’s
taken so long for her to notice Coozie, since babies are supposed to be
attracted to high contrast toys black and white toys are supposed to be
ideal.

It’s amazing to see Elizabeth learning. It’s fun watching the series of
steps it takes to accomplish a new task.

Using hands: First step putting hands together. Then bring hands to
mouth and suck on them, try to pull out your tongue, experiment with
gag reflex. Next, learn to put something in the hands then bring it to
the mouth. Toys aren’t the only things that are fun to grab. It’s fun
to grab at mommie’s salad bowl during dinner.

Rolling over (woo hoo!): While on your tummy, practice holding your
head up until you can lift it as high as possible. Then thrust it over
to one side. Since it’s your heaviest part, the rest of your body will
follow. Then wiggle your legs and try to look up at the ceiling to get
yourself on your back.

We’re also learning to communicate with each other better. She’s
started arching her back and sticking her chest out as a signal that
she wants to be picked up. She’ll also stop crying when she realizes
that I’m headed upstairs to sit in the recliner to nurse her-the crying
will start again if I take a side-trip to the toilet first.

I can’t wait to see what her next steps are going to be!