sitting up et al

In the past couple of weeks Alexandra learned to keep her balance while sitting up. She still falls back sometimes, so it's good to keep her on soft surfaces.  Today 

In the past week she learned she can hold herself to prevent free fall, and push herded back up when she leans too far down. 

She takes EVERYTHING to her mouth. 

She now has her own iPhone.

She loves to make fart noises. 

I the past few days she decided to wake up at 3 to nurse. :-(

Alexandra before 5 months

At 4 months old Alexandra started giggling, double rolling. 

Just before she turned 5 mo she started to reach for toys. 

Also, she's been putting her bum up in the air as if trying to crawl. 

She hates being wet. Loves being diaperless.

Alexandra at 3 months

At exactly 3 months Alexandra turned from tummy to back. A couple of weeks later, at three and 1/2 months, she turned from back to tummy. Now she likes to sit. She pulls her body up in holds onto our hands. We have started letting her use the walker. We just added a whole bunch of blankets on her back.

She talks a lot. Seems like she believe she's actually communicating. I wonder if she understands that we use words, if she thinks we just communicate by random sounds, therefore she think she's really communicating.

She doesn't take up as much anymore. Choose to do it on a daily basis, several times a day. Now she can go for a week without hick ups.

She still has a lot of rashes on her body. I mean, not rashes. They're more like dry spots. She has a lot of dry spots.

People keep telling me that she looks like Dean. I'm still trying to figure out who she looks like. To me she just looks like a baby.

She sleeps through the night mostly. We usually put her to bed around 1030 between 1030 and midnight. She can sleep from then to anywhere between six and eight. In the morning that is.

We don't have much a routine for anything. I've been trying to be better about bathing her. Yeah. She has taken showers, baths in the sink, invests in the tub. I've been trying to bathe her or give her a shower at least once every other day. But things don't always happen the way I intend. I'm not really sure how any parent can keep any sort of routine. I don't deer to any parent movement but my own.  I'm not a follower of free demand or strict routine I can't have routines. I'm not a strict cloth diaper person or a strict disposable person. I just do what's convenient. I just do what works for us.

 I still don't know if I'm going to be a crappy parent.for now, I'm just having fun.

I'm having fun wondering why she makes all those funny noises and she looks like she's really talking. I'm having fun thinking about the fact that every single thing we do is just gonna be part of her past. I'm having fun watching her develop. I find it so amazing the baby comes out of mo i'm having fun wondering why she mean so those when you noises and she looks at us like she's really talking. I'm having fun thinking about the fact that every single thing we do it's just gonna be part of her past. I'm having fun watching her develop. I find it so amazing that a baby comes into this world knowing absolutely nothing other than sucking, in little by little they develop in the lane so many things each day, and eventually they become fully functioning adults, knowing so much about the world and being able to wonder about things I don't know. I'm having a lot of fun thinking about these things.

There's one thing I would really like to know, is what do babies thing right after they come out of their mother's tummy. Do they remember where they were? Do they understand where they are? Are they scared? Do they understand that they will never be able to go back to th that place ever again? Do they miss it? I would really like to be able to talk to a newborn baby, and understand what's in their minds.

Alexander's now making sounds with the back of her throat. No one taught her to do that. She just learned it. It's amazing no one teaches a baby how to speak. They learn it on their own. Just by observing people talk. Baby how to walk. No went to the baby how to sit. They just learn it. They do it just by observing other people doing it. And they figure they want to do it too.I mean, who taught Alexandra she should sit?

Alexandra's 2 -3 month updates

It was somewhere between 2 and 3 months old that Alexandra started grunting less and making more vowel noises. 

She also began to smile more intently and sometimes even a draft of laughter. 

She's now very fussy when it comes to nursing. She smiles and looks away a lot. 

But she's also drinking a lot more. 

She spits up like crazy, so I'm trying to limit her milk intake. And be good about burping her. 

Crescendo. Hora de guardar o moises

Noite passada Alexandra dormiu pela última vez no Moisés. 

Ela já está grandinha e fica muito apertada nele. 

Hj então armamos o pack'n'play lá em cima. 

Já cresceu 10cm desde q nasceu, já perdeu roupinhas. 

Dia 16 ela segurou a cabecinha pela primeira vez. 

É impressionante como nascemos sem saber ou entender nada e vamos crescendo e aprendendo e nos tornemos pessoas cultas, cheias de conhecimento e produtoras de conhecimento. 

O q será q vai na cabecinha de um bebê desse tamanhinho?

Será q lembra da vida antes do nascimento?

O q será q já entende a essa altura? Ela sorri. Porque? Está feliz? Acha engraçado? Está descobrindo algo?

Ela sonha e tem pesadelos. 

Ela sorri para todo mundo é quase nunca pra mim. Eu sou só a mulher dos peitos. 

Na maternidade, la pro terceiro dia de nascida, ela olhou pra mim pela primeira vez. Isso depois de ter mamado muitas vezes. Olhou pra mim com aquela carinha surpresa como se pensasse "meu deus! Os peitos tem cara tb!"

É reclamona. Hj em dia não reclama tanto. Mas reclamava. Geniosa. Se isso for indicativo de personalidade, estamos lenhados. 

Odiava a cadeirinha. Hj já nem tanto. 

Mas na primeira vez q voltou do médico veio reclamando, de forma rítmica. Qdo chegou na rua de casa abriu o berreiro. Para uma menina q não chora nunca, foi um acontecimento. 

Não chora quase.  Chorou de verdade pela primeira vez Qdo fez 2 meses. Um choro de absoluto desespero como eu nunca vi. Chorou por causa da vacina. 

Com a vacina ela gritou e choramingou. 

Mas horas depois, Qdo eu voltei do dentista para encontrar ela e a família na ocean state, ela estava aos berros. 

Fomos pra casa (depois de passar no médico para perguntar o q eu já devia saber se tivesse lido o papel q me deram) e colocamos a neném numa banheira quente. Foi Qdo se acalmou um pouco. Tomou tilenol nesse dia tb. E dois dias depois estava enjoada e rouquinha. 

Já há umas três semanas ela faz uns sonzinhos tipo conversa. 

Dormiu no bercinho pela primeira vez no dia q Jonathan (meu ex-diretor) veio trazer o colchão dela. 

Mas ainda não passa a noite lá. 

Faz tanta força pra fazer cocô. E dá um sorrisinho. 

Hj viu neve pela primeira vez. Tirou fotos e mais fotos. 

Ontem viajou para a Ikea em new haven. 

Estava feliz e realizada no carrinho q ficava meio sentada. 

More funny little things - car seat included

Funny things about Alexandra:

She makes these weird grunting sounds. My mom nicknamed her "little truck up a hill". I make fun of her by making sounds like Paul from The Hillbilly Bears. 

She gets startled at random household noises and throws her hands up in the air. "I throw my hands up in the air sometimes."

She's got bicolor eyelashes. Half dark and half blond. 

Can you imagine me with a blond daughter? 

Me - the blond joke teller. She'll have to get used to it. I'll buy her a red hair wig and tell her it's her smart hat. LOL. 

When she's nursing she starts complaining if I talk to anyone else but her. She waved her arms in a funny rhythm. 

And after she's done nursing she throws her head back as if she's drunk.  

She squeals when she gets really angry or frustrated. 

And she hiccups every single day. Several times a day. I feel bad for her, but it's funny. I mock her. Every Time she gets worked up or cold she gets hiccups. Before she was born she got hiccups whenever I got upset. 

Her first time out. on the way back, she'd had it with little car seat, and grunted the whole way home. Rhythmically. When she was about 5 minutes from home she started crying bloody murder.

First smiles

Alexandra is just too funny. 

We've been making videos of her funny sounds and attitude. 

So far I got grunts, squeals and happy sighs. 

Is she really speaking her mind when she pulls on my boob and sounds like she's lecturing it?

I haven't been able to catch her interrupted sneezes on film. 

Last week the doctor asked me if she was smiling. Oh, yeah, since birth. However just this past Monday  - nov 30, she opened a big smile to my mom.  Then again on tuesday. Then to dean on Thursday.  As for me, no smiles. I'm just the boob lady. 

She's outgrowing her clothes already. I can't help but think that in a blink of an eye she'll be all grown up. Right now we are building her past, a past she will never remember.