Formerly the blog for my daughter Eliza, where we posted from her birth until she began Kindergarten, now all the old posts are integrated into Pattern Recognition.
Everyone always comments on Ellie’s eyes…how clear, how attentive they are, how pretty. She’s always had great eyes, even from birth. She wasn’t out in the world 5 seconds before she popped her eyes open and was looking around. Heck, we’ve even got a 3D Ultrasound of her with her eyes open In Utero.
We’ll see about the color, though…both Betsy and I have greenish eyes, while Ellie is still deep blue. She’s still got time for them to change, though.
We gave Eliza avocado for the first time yesterday. She was skeptical but ate quite a bit, despite the look of confusion on her face. We’ll try again today.
In other news, we’re having some tough sleep issues. The little monkey has learned to roll over onto her belly, which means the swaddle is no longer effective or safe. Yet it is hard for her to settle down without being swaddled. She is also rolling onto her tummy and waking herself up in the middle of the night. She doesn’t know how to roll onto her back yet, so she either screams for one of us to help or sometimes will eventually settle down and stay on her belly to sleep. Not the safest thing in the world, we realize. So…”sleeping through the night” is a distant memory. But hopefully we’ll get there again.
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Eliza just learned how to roll over all by herself, from back to front. It’s the culmination of weeks of serious effort, but now she’s doing it like it’s no big deal. I caught her doing it in the crib this morning while she was supposed to be taking a nap. Now that she can, it’s literally all she wants to do. You put her on her back to play and in three seconds she’s over on her front. Over and over again. Ten or so rounds of this and she gets exhausted and cries because she needs to rest. Poor thing doesn’t know her limits yet. But she knows rolling is a lot of fun!!!
Eliza took her first bite of food today! Mushy rice cereal, mixed with formula…yum! We weren’t sure if she’d know what to do, but she saw the spoon coming, opened her mouth wide, rolled it around, and swallowed. Turns out she is great at eating (just like mom and dad!). She seemed to really dig it.
Seems like only yesterday I was typing that she was four WEEKS old. Good grief, where is the time going?
She’s working on rolling over (can’t quite do it yet), started babbling a week or so ago, and is still laughing/giggling up a storm. She has also grown a lot of hair this week, believe it or not. Her new favorite thing is sitting up with help. She likes that angle on the world much better than lying down. She is amazing with her hands now and her head is quite steady. Our little girl is growing up!
I’m four months old today!
I also just had my 4 month checkup, and I’m 14 pounds, 5 ounces and 25 inches tall! 75% for both, so I’m nice and proportionate.
This is Ellie trying to “kiss” her cousin Parker…she’s not quite figured it out yet, but knows that it’s hilarious when Mom and Dad kiss her. So anytime you bring her close to your face, she just opens her mouth up wide like she’s trying to take a bite of your cheek.
So either she’s trying to kiss you, or she’s a zombie. I’ll keep everyone informed one way or the other.
Eliza, thanks to Titi Chrysty, is geared up for summer. How cool is she with the shades?
