Well, regarding the business of sleeping, she still will rarely fall asleep on her own. She still needs to be rocked, walked or bounced. She will, however, sleep in her crib most of the time and go back to sleep fairly quickly at night after a feeding. She still gets up 1-2 times a night to eat too. Last night she got up twice, and the second time wouldn’t go back down for an hour! But that’s pretty rare. I was pretty tired all day until she laughed for me for the first time! The tired-pain went away in an instant. What a laugh it was too! A great big deep, belly laugh. I tried desperately to get her to do it again or get it on film, but of course I couldn’t; just got a million of the same thing. I can’t wait till I can hear that sound more often, I was elated!
She can’t deliberately grasp at anything yet either, but she has a pretty good swat going on. She can hold her neck up for the most part and raise her body off her arms when she’s being held. Of course she can hold her own weight on her legs; she has the famous Christensen leg strength. She is still eating about the same; 2-3 oz every 2-3 hours. She’s found a few vowel sounds that are pretty dang cute when she coo’s, if I do say so myself.
We’ve taken her out a few times. I don’t usually like to because we pay for it later when we get home and she hasn’t slept in hours or missed a nap or two. But as she grows, I think I’ll feel less apprehensive about it. I think she’d do fine, it’s all me and my insecurities. Here are some pics from a softball game and her first 4th of July at her cousin’s house.
