Sara is doing so great! We were in the Antioch/Smyrna area all day yesterday. She does so well when we go places. She is such a good baby! She seldom cries just to cry. She cries when there is something wrong, and then when it's taken care of, she's ok again. Though she might fuss at you for a few minutes just to remind you that she's still kind of mad you for it.
She HATES having a wet/dirty diaper! But she HATES being changed even worse! That's when she yells the most. She screams like you're killing her! I try to warm up the wipes in my hand... but it's seldom good enough. I thought that wipe warmers were silly when you can just warm them in your hands... but we are SO getting one!
She smiled a couple little smiles at me today during feeding time. She just melts my heart.
I've discovered that when you become a parent, you automatically start referring to yourself as "Mama". As in, "Daddy, will you hold this potato, Mama has to go potty, yes she does (in baby talk)!" I love it!!
I was reading a book on Baby Sign Language yesterday, while in Target (I've discovered that Target has the cheapest diapers at $5.74 for 40... whodduthunkit?). You don't teach them the alphabet or anything like that, just talk baby talk in sign language. You talk at the same time so they associate the sign with the word. For instance, I'd say "Does Sara need a diaper change?" while making the sign for "diaper" and "change". It would allow her to communicate with us much sooner. The ideal time to start teaching her is 6 months, but if we started now, she could be signing back to us when she's 6 months old. Can you believe that??? The lady that wrote the book was talking about how her 8 month saw a newborn baby, and her daughter, with a worried look on her face, made the sign for "chick" and for "egg", then "baby". She was wondering if the baby came out of her mama the same way the chick came out of the egg! Then she was afraid of elephants, and didn't want to go to sleep one night. When asked what was wrong, she made the sign for "elephant" and "outside". She thought the car horns she was hearing outside were elephants! She would NEVER have been able to have these conversations with her daughter at that age under normal circumstances! But it is supposed to encourage them to talk sooner too, because they are observing like normal, but they are also interacting much more, so it accelerates their speech. I think this is going to be AWESOME!!
I'll leave with a picture of Sara (think I'm capable of making a post without one? No way!).
Ok, maybe a couple. :-)
She is SOOO strong even though she's so little! From day one she was able to hold her head up on her own. Not for long, but she does. She will be laying on my shoulder, my hand on the back of her head, and she will forcefully push back against my hand so that she can hold her head up and look around. AMAZING!
Arriving home from the hospital the first time around.
