Updates and Anecdotes

Hana has been using her hands a lot more, and with a lot more precision. She easily grabs and explores toys that are given to her, sometimes with one hand, other times with both. (Regardless, the toys usually fast track themselves straight to her mouth.) Today we read "The Runaway Bunny" before bed and about 1/3 of the way through, she decided she wanted to turn the pages herself, but backwards. So we read the first 1/3 of the book both forwards and backwards. Then she chewed on it.

She has also recently developed a routine of nursing herself to sleep before bed, which would be fine, but OW! She switches to "comfort" sucking at a certain point, which is shallower and more pinchy than regular eating. And I can't seem to get her off. When I remove her she just roots until I let her back on, and if I don't....the screaming begins. :) Hopefully this is just a phase. Just about everything at this age is, so I can't imagine this won't change at some point in the relatively near future.

Hana still loves bath time. She has grown out of her infant bath and has graduated to a larger child's bath, which should last her into her toddler years or until we switch her to the regular bath. In fact, she has pretty much grown out of her 3-6 month clothes and I am going to have to get out her 6-12 month things this week! We'll get her weight and length at her 4-month pediatrician visit next week, but I think she weighs close to 17 pounds at this point. Everywhere we go, people comment on her cute chubby cheeks.

She is still waking up every couple of hours at night. We were grateful to get a 4-hour stretch of sleep last night, when 5-6 hours used to be the norm. She is fussing right now in her crib, only an hour after we put her down. Hopefully she will go back to sleep on her own but not likely. :( OK, she's not going back down...gotta run!