Holly keep growing and learning new things. She is sleeping well through the night now too, which helps get things done the next day! She falls asleep typically between 7 and 8. We all try to go the bed by 8:30 (doesn'y usually happen, but we try!) and she's usually up between 3 and 4 then. Anthony's studying for his CPA exams, so he gets up at 4 to study himself. I then get her up, feed her, then we got back to bed for a short nap to finish off the night (if I didn't make it to bed on time with Anthony and Holly.) We get up officially between 8 and 9. I feed Holly again before doing what I call her development play. It's the one time a day I purposefully try to get certain baby activities in. Today she got to do her photo shoot - a good time to do it since she is in such a good mood then! But normally it involved "talking" to each other, singing songs, reading books, baby yoga, and tummy time. We will also work on sitting and reaching/grabbing skills too. Some days I see what she seems most interested in and will do less language building activities and do more physical or visa versa. Holly is usually hungry and worn out by 11:00 or so, so then she is ready to start resting and takes her long nap of the day anywhere from 11 to 1 and will sleep for one to three hours. She's napping right now while I type. I usually use this time to exercise, but I wanted to do her photos today instead! :)
Holly does talk a lot more with everyone she meets. I love her little voice. She is a cute talker. She also starting doing really well just the last two days at grabbing things in front of her. She will grab my hand and is more purposeful about helping to hold her bottles. She is definitely getting more control over her hands and fingers. She loves watching my hands right now too, like when I turn pages in a book she is fascinated. She is learning about her hands by putting them into her mouth to the point of gagging herself, silly girl!
Lets see, Holly still likes to walk and look at things. She really likes trees still both in her books and in real life. She seems to be responding to colors more and more and gets waaaaay distracted by the TV. We're trying to be more careful about what's on these days so I put on "The Little Mermaid" just as background for me, but, oh, she wanted to watch it! So, I did let her and she stayed awake and interested all the way to the end. I try not to let her watch too much TV yet, but it was so cute how she was into it.
Here's Holly's size comparison. She was weighing 10 lbs 8 oz last week with a length of 23 inches:
Here are photo's from her shoot. I am still learning to use the new camera, but it is coming along!
