More Milestones!

Ok, just a very quick post today. I'm still at my mother's house. I had a nice week. Relaxed, slept a bit and my mom and dad enjoyed Mia so much. I noticed Mia doing some more things. Again, it's so amazing to see the changes being made everyday, big and small! She's really growing up so fast!

Here are some new things:

She pulls at her pants, bib, shirts, etc. She never did this before. If I show her something to grab, she still does not get the concept of trying to reach for it yet. If I actually put it in her hands, she holds it and in her mouth it goes most of the time.

Her head is getting steadier and steadier. I can hold her on my hip and really don't have to support her head anymore.

Also, about 2 nights ago on April 1, my anniversary by the way!, she REALLY was laughing a lot. My mom was saying something silly and it just made her laugh and laugh. She was just in the right mood and was silly. The more we laughed, the more she got a kick out of it and laughed out loud more. IT WAS SIMPLY THE BEST!!!!! She really hasn't done it again since then, but this was the longest laughing out loud episode she has had. I assume there will be more and I'm sure not complaining!

She really takes note when someone walks in the room, she turns towards the sound and can see people across the room well now. Also her vision close up is so much better. It's so funny, when I give her the bottle, she looks at it and is cross-eyed because it's so close. She was never able to focus this close, so I know for sure her vision is improving both far and near.

She "sings" all the time. It was so funny...she was half sleeping this morning and I went to put her in her stroller and she started to sing..."ahhh, ahhhh, ahhhh" like half asleep..it was so funny, I laughed so hard.

When she is fussy because she is sleepy she is getting stonger and squirms in my arms so much. Sometimes she just wants to be put down to go to sleep on her own. She is definitely getting physically stronger. She pushes off with her feet when they are on the ground now. I think in a couple of weeks, she'll be ready for the exer-saucer. My friend started it at 4 months, so she is almost there.

She is just changing so much...I know I keep saying it, but it's so amazing to see. Oh, we are filling her bottles to 6 ounces now. She can take from 4-5 if she's really hungry, so I figured we'll start doing this. So now we are using the bigger 9oz. bottles. They look gigantic. She still does not want a pacifier no matter how hard I try to get her to take it. So we'll see about this.
She woke up at least one time a night while I was at my mothers. Not too bad.

What else, oh, Giacomo is on his way back as I write this post. He'll be in this afternoon and then will come to my mom's tomorrow and then we're on our way to Wildwood. As soon as I get home next week, I'll post pics from this past week.

I'm sure it's not long at all in our future that Mia will be turning over. If I change her and rest her head on a pillow and walk away for a second, her head is off the pillow! We have to be very careful now that she is really starting to try and move.

Ok, I guess that's it for now. Talk to you very soon!

Amy