Alanna updates
Oct. 11th, 2007 12:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
celticdragonflyThought I'd toss up some updates on how the Adoragirl is doing.
She'll be 4 months old tomorrow. I'm going to try to find a way to get her weighed and her length measured. In estimates from earlier this week, I think she's actually lost a little weight. Which makes sense to me - she's been eating a bit less, and she's certainly doing more - sitting up more, wriggling around, turning over, and all that. Burns up a lot of calories!
We have given up trying to get her into the 6-9 month outfits, and in retrospect, I should have stopped earlier. Sunday I tried her in an 18-month size outfit her godparents had given her, and hey, that fit pretty well. Karl said that's why he doesn't like to dress her, too hard to get her into the small outfits. So okay, we've put away the smaller size, we have her in some 12 and 18 month old outfits, and I'm going to go buy more 18 month size outfits.
She's rolling over a lot more often. It's a source of frustration, and once again she's doing things backward. She's great at rolling over back-to-front, which they're supposed to learn at 5-6 months. She's downright insistent on it. But once she gets there, she's generally fairly stuck, and she doesn't LIKE to be on her tummy. Even though they're supposed to learn to turn over front-to-back at 2-3 months, she has trouble with it, and generally cries pitifully until she's rescued. I expect she'll get it all sorted out eventually.
She's getting closer and closer to sitting up on her own. She sits up in our laps pretty well, not leaning back against us nearly as much. She does a lot of trying to throw herself in various directions! Maggie likes to sit on the floor with Alanna sitting between her legs sorta "in her lap" and holding her up, and they watch Sesame Street together. It's sweet. Alanna and Maggie both benefit from the extra cuddle time, I think, and Maggie's learning so much about baby care. Alanna's not ready to sit totally by herself, but it won't be long.
She also loves to stand - either in our laps, or sometimes I've stood her on the floor and held onto her hands. She's not ready to take any steps yet, and can't balance on her own, but she can hold her weight up for a while, and clearly likes it.
You know how typically people will deal with fussy babies and find they can calm them down by taking them on a car drive? Again with Alanna doing things backwards. She's generally a very calm happy baby, but frequently has major objections to going places in the car seat. Not always, but often. She just seems to hate being in the car seat. If we slow down or are turning into a parking lot or something, she'll quiet down - I think she's anticipating stopping and getting out - but if we keep going she starts wailing again.
She'll be 4 months old tomorrow. I'm going to try to find a way to get her weighed and her length measured. In estimates from earlier this week, I think she's actually lost a little weight. Which makes sense to me - she's been eating a bit less, and she's certainly doing more - sitting up more, wriggling around, turning over, and all that. Burns up a lot of calories!
We have given up trying to get her into the 6-9 month outfits, and in retrospect, I should have stopped earlier. Sunday I tried her in an 18-month size outfit her godparents had given her, and hey, that fit pretty well. Karl said that's why he doesn't like to dress her, too hard to get her into the small outfits. So okay, we've put away the smaller size, we have her in some 12 and 18 month old outfits, and I'm going to go buy more 18 month size outfits.
She's rolling over a lot more often. It's a source of frustration, and once again she's doing things backward. She's great at rolling over back-to-front, which they're supposed to learn at 5-6 months. She's downright insistent on it. But once she gets there, she's generally fairly stuck, and she doesn't LIKE to be on her tummy. Even though they're supposed to learn to turn over front-to-back at 2-3 months, she has trouble with it, and generally cries pitifully until she's rescued. I expect she'll get it all sorted out eventually.
She's getting closer and closer to sitting up on her own. She sits up in our laps pretty well, not leaning back against us nearly as much. She does a lot of trying to throw herself in various directions! Maggie likes to sit on the floor with Alanna sitting between her legs sorta "in her lap" and holding her up, and they watch Sesame Street together. It's sweet. Alanna and Maggie both benefit from the extra cuddle time, I think, and Maggie's learning so much about baby care. Alanna's not ready to sit totally by herself, but it won't be long.
She also loves to stand - either in our laps, or sometimes I've stood her on the floor and held onto her hands. She's not ready to take any steps yet, and can't balance on her own, but she can hold her weight up for a while, and clearly likes it.
You know how typically people will deal with fussy babies and find they can calm them down by taking them on a car drive? Again with Alanna doing things backwards. She's generally a very calm happy baby, but frequently has major objections to going places in the car seat. Not always, but often. She just seems to hate being in the car seat. If we slow down or are turning into a parking lot or something, she'll quiet down - I think she's anticipating stopping and getting out - but if we keep going she starts wailing again.
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