Blog posts have been fewer and farther between this month because we’ve been struggling with sleep issues. Remember all those things I wrote a few months back about her being a good sleeper? Well, my newborn sleeper turned into a four-month-old non-sleeper. Sigh. J and I have been struggling for survival around here, running on less sleep than a I thought a person needed to function. Fortunately a couple of things have happened. 1) She’s growing out of her little sleep struggles and 2) our wonderful nanny trained her to go to sleep without us holding her. It took an hour, but at the end of that hour Clare fell asleep on her own in her crib with Mary patting her chest. She has gone to sleep in her crib every single time since then. Sometimes we have to be in there patting her chest and shushing her, but sometimes we can just put her down, give her the blanket and binky, and walk out. It’s heaven!
- Clare loves to be sung to. Nothing stops her from crying and fussing like a good old singalong. We sing the usual Twinkle Twinkle, Itsy Bitsy Spider, Row Row Your Boat, etc. I had my dad put some of our old Raffi records onto CDs for me so we can start singing along to those. Clare doesn’t care about Raffi so much, but I needed some new material.
- Her absolute song is the Alphabet song. She LOVES her ABCs.
- She hasn’t been particularly interested in rolling over to becoming mobile. In general she’s happy to stay in one spot, often with a toy, and talk or sing.
- She can sit up on her own now for short periods of time. She doesn’t have much balance, but her strength is great!
- She has started to notice the animals and has “petted” the cat a few times. She’s pretty good about not grabbing at his ears, tail or hair – but I suspect that will happen soon enough.
- She’s very tactile and likes to explore new textures with her fingers.
- No one makes her laugh like her Daddy. I suspect this will be a reoccurring theme throughout her whole life 🙂
- She’s becoming a little wary of new people. Not stranger anxiety exactly, but she will certainly study new faces before she smiles at them. Our little girl is a watcher and a thinker.
