- Elle has been doing pretty good in her bassinet. She sleeps in it for a few hours and then gets in the bed with me.
- she got her first ear infection this month
- her fussiness has picked up a lot this month too.
- she had good days and bad ones but shes's fussy for at least 14 of every day if not a lot more. she never use to cry this month :( It's awful watching her go through the phase. the doctors say she starting to show signs of teething.
- on her last day of being 4 months, she rolled over! at the doctors office to boot!
- she started oatmeal this month and LOVES it. She's gets so excited about eating and jumps up and down in her seat whle shes being fed. it's so cute!
- Elle learned to hold her head up this month. she started out a little wobbly but by the end of her third month, she was holding it a lot stabler.
- she'll also sit upright when laid up against something! I've been nestling her in the crack where the two back cushions meat on the couch to get her little back and neck use to sitting upright. I've tried to see what happens when I sit her up on her own, but she topples right over.
- towards the beginning of the month, she started to reach out and grab things that she'd see you put her in front of her
- she much more prefers to scoop things up to her face and mouth for further investigation at this point rather that use her finger and hands to grasp things but shes starting to get the hang of it.
- speaking of mouth, EVERYTHING she can touch goes directly into her mouth. literally, anything she can fit! which includes her ENTIRE fist hahahah!!!!!
- i can't believe how big she's getting. She's at least twice as big as she was when she was born. her foot is already half the length of mine!
- She usually only whines when she's hungry or needs to poop and can't but lately she whines when shes sleepy too. And the longer she fights it, the whiner she becomes.
- before week 16 I'd only ever heard her cry 3 times before but now she cries at least once a day if not more! Sometimes it's only for a few seconds and sometimes it's for a minute or two but I have no clue what's bothering her to be having these moments. maybe growing pains??
- We got a nice bassinet from my mom which I put in our room next to our bed that she's been sleeping in lately.
- For the first part of month 3, she would sleep in it from about midnight to 5am. Then around the middle of month, she started only sleeping until 4am and then 3am before waking up, kicking the sides of her bed until I'd get up and either feed her in the living room or put her in the bed with me. usually i just did the latter because she would sleep until 6 or 7 before waking up hungry. now with only a few days left in the 3rd month, I'm back on the couch with her, trying to get her to sleep in her bassinet through the night. Or at least more than 3 or 4 hours.
- Elle is holding her little head up by herself! Well, not for very long before becoming tired and a little lazy but she tries!
- She's smiling all the time now and is trying to laugh too. it's the cutest thing because she doesn't quite get the sounds she suppose to make when she laughs so it comes out as a cough. haha!
- If I make certain faces of stick my tongue out she try to mimic me.
- Her gruntiness has mostly subsided which is nice but she still does it when she's tired, hungry, or has to poop.
- She still absolutely hates tummy time and will have nothing to do with it.
- I'm finally able to distinguish what most of her cries are for.
- She got her very first shots this month and handled it like a champ. (I saved her bloody little band aids because I'm creepy like that.) I was so impressed. She did cry, but not for very long. She cried more about the fact of having to take the liquid medicine orally than the shots in the thighs.
- I'm currently still sleeping on the couch with her but recently I've been letting her sleep in her pack n play which has been going pretty good. I'm hoping to get her use to sleeping by herself so we can get her into her crib by the time she's 3 months.
