Friday, July 16, 2010

19 Weeks Old

We finally measured Pepper again... she's at 22 inches now! That's four inches more than at birth. I'm sure she weighs a lot more too now but the scale here is currently running out of batteries or something... the other day it told me I was about 60 pounds, haha.

She seems very determined to start crawling. She works really hard to move her limbs around and can get her legs under her and everything but she doesn't quite have the coordination yet. You can tell that she knows exactly what she's trying to do because she'll watch the other kids crawling for a while, then try to copy what they're doing.

As I'm typing this it seems like she's made even more progress already. I set her down on the bed and she's trying really hard to crawl again, and she has successfully scooted forward a couple of feet already! I think she's just barely realized how to push herself forward with her legs. Go Pepper!

We haven't started the baby food yet but we do give her tiny bites of random food and she seems to enjoy it a lot.

She can't sit super solidly yet, but she can sit well enough that I can put her on the counter or the table within close distance while I do paperwork or something.

More good news: she's started sleeping 8 hours straight some nights. Yay! This is the first time in 4 months I've been able to sleep that long all at once. It feels so good.

She is so happy and talkative and funny. We couldn't have a more perfect baby.



I don't know what it is about putting multi-legged sea creatures on your head that creates so much joy, but it always does. (*Hatsuho and Chris ;)



1 comment:

H.Cook said...

I'm so glad she likes tako-chan :)