16 Weeks

16 weeks! This little baby is growing up into a very fun and happy baby! We have been having so much fun with her this week - last Sunday, we took Annie on a number of outings after I wrote my post, and she did great - such a nice change! I know this might not last, but at this stage, Annie is an exceptionally easy baby - seriously it is CRAZY how much she has changed just in the past few weeks! Yesterday she probably cried a total of about 2 minutes, if that.

Finally actually fell asleep in the moby :)


Annie's first trip to Sweeney's


Annie wearing the very first thing we bought for her after we had our ultrasound showing that she was a girl! I remember it feeling inconceivable that she'd be that big :)


Getting a lot better at holding her head up in her chair - her max time in this is still only about 10 minutes :)

Just so I don't forget, here are some things I love about Annie right now:
-The big smile she greets us with when we get her in the morning
-All the fun noises she makes
-How she has to brush her hand up against her face in order to find her thumb, and then the hand basically is palming her whole face
-The little coo she makes after a big sneeze
-How she raises her little eyebrows
-That her huge cheeks shake when we're burping her
-When she stops nursing to chat a bit
-How she seems to like to press her feet into each other
-The way her head smells after a bath

Just an example of all the noises she makes - including a little surprise she left in her diaper ;)

In the past few days, Annie has started cooing and chatting to herself in her crib in the mornings. Once after doing this, she fell back asleep for almost an hour, but the past 2 days, we've just gotten her and brought her up to our bed to hang out for a bit before we're ready to get up :) Well, I guess yesterday we waited for almost..... uh.... 40 minutes before actually getting her to see if she'd fall back asleep - ha, we're so mean :) After she starts cooing, she then wriggles around and gets herself out of her swaddle - today she almost had herself rolled all the way onto her stomach and seemed a tad bit upset about that, since she seems to have forgotten that she knows how to roll herself back over :)

Turned herself completely around and broke free! All before 7am!

She is also grabbing her feet a lot, and has started grabbing toys in her playmat, although I wouldn't say she is actually "playing" with them yet - she just happens to grab them and doesn't quite know she can let go :)

It's hard for us to really know how Annie is doing with naps at daycare - we get a report of how long she slept, and as I've mentioned, I didn't really believe she was sleeping that long. Well, yesterday for her first nap I just let her sit in her crib chatting to herself, and it took about 20 minutes but she did fall back asleep for almost an hour more! So there you have it. She did better with napping the rest of the day too, sleeping for an hour two more times. So maybe Sue ISN'T lying. We also haven't been swaddling her for naps at home for the past week - as soon as she finds her thumb she is pretty much out, and I think she's getting more used to sleeping without the swaddle. We haven't even needed to rock her at all, we can just put her in the crib, she might chat to herself for a few minutes, but she'll fall asleep on her own. I HOPE it stays this easy, but I know it probably won't ;) I guess we do help her along by turning on the white noise and keeping it pretty dark in there, which I think helps. She still startles herself, but I don't think she really wakes up. We haven't tried keeping her out of the swaddle at night yet... it's still working for us then, so we'll keep it up for now!

Ben's family came over yesterday for awhile, and Annie even was pretty okay being passed around for awhile!

I mentioned above how I love it when Annie stops nursing to chat. Well, this is a love/hate thing - it is super cute of course, but she seems to be getting a bit distracted by the world around her now, and after a few minutes is just completely uninterested in eating - she might be done by then, but I know she hasn't emptied me out - I try to get her to do that if possible, but it takes awhile of taking little breaks to let her look around and make noises!

I guess that about sums it up for this week! Pretty uneventful, but really fun :)