4 months old - A letter

Dear WJ,
You're now 4 months old and 1 day. You've changed so much. You communicate more. When you have attention, which you love, you make high pitched noises and smile. When you want attention, you shout angrily. You don't seem happy when you're not getting attention.
If I hold your hands you pull yourself up into a sitting position. You love sitting up and looking around. You can hold yourself up for a few seconds before toppling over. You can also stand up if I hold your hands up. You're very strong!

If I lie down next to you and face you, you play with my face. You like to explore things. You can get a lot of things to your mouth now.

You drool a lot. I'm not sure if you're teething. You do have a very hard bite though!

We did 4 sessions of baby massage at the Health Centre. It was great because you got all the attention you needed, you got an hour a week of naked time, and we got to bond. On the third week though you were in a mood and protested until I picked you up and cuddled you. We ended up just sat at the side of the class though, you cuddling me, then feeding, then sleeping, then feeding again. You also wee'd on me! That was just at the start of your growth spurt, as over the next couple of weeks all you did was feed then sleep, then wake up for more milk before falling asleep again. If you got over-tired you'd start hitting me or daddy. Until then you never needed sleep in the day! It was exhausting for me, although I'd planned to do a lot of things before Christmas. But those things can wait!! You're the most important thing in the world right now. People will still get their Christmas presents, but they may have to wait until January or February!

You're still putting on lots of weight. You're long and thin. I'd bought you some clothes for Christmas, but then you grew a lot and I realised you wouldn't get much wear out of them if I saved them for Christmas so I had to let you wear them.

When you're feeding you stop, wait for me to look at you so you can smile at me, then carry on feeding. Little things like that make me happy!

I expressed some milk and we tried to give it to you in a bottle but you didn't want it, you wanted Boobie. You kept gagging on it and spitting it out. You're gag reflex will weaken in a couple of months so we'll have to try again then. Then you'll be able to start exploring food too.

I only had time to take you swimming once. But I promise we'll go swimming again this week.

We've been going to Baby Yoga. I think you like it there, because you get attention from me while we do stretches, and we get to see our friends. I'm not sure we'll be going there much over the winter though as it's up a really steep hill.

I hope you enjoy Christmas!!

Love

Mummy x

Small Style 08/12/11

Every thursday I'll be sharing a picture of my super-stylish daughter. I first saw this on A Lime Less Ordinary, but it started on Mama loves Papa.

Late again, but better late than never...


I love this dress, it's so pretty, although isn't the easiest to put on! It was a gift from her grandma (K's mum).

Dress: M&Co
Tights: Mothercare (set of 3)
Bodysuit: H&M (eBay'd)

Yarn Along #4

I "finished" the nappy cover. There are still some things I would like to change about the legs. I was cutting the yarn in between colours and now I have tied ends, but only on one leg. I decided not to do that with the other leg. When I get time I will redo the bad leg, but I just decided to sew it all up for now as I wanted her to wear it asap. She's grown out of her other wool soaker and I feel she needs something more breathable at night. After lanolising it, it was taking ages to dry in my cold flat, so I gave it a blast with the hairdryer. I can now smell sheep!!

I've not really been reading anything this week. Well, I read a bit more of Baby Led Weaning, but that's it. WJ's been quite grumpy, tired but fighting sleep, so I've been sat in the dark a lot trying to get her to sleep!!

Wordless Wednesday

This Moment #4 Sitting

A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember." SouleMama

Small Style 01/12/11

Every thursday I'll be sharing a picture of my super-stylish daughter. I first saw this on A Lime Less Ordinary, but it started on Mama loves Papa.

This is a bad photo but I loved this outfit. She's wearing a dress but the outfits not full of pink and frills!

Dress: Next (part of a set)
Bodysuit: H&M (eBay)
Tights: Mothercare (set of 3)

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I'm a day early... ignore this post!