09/21/11
Three months old, fourteen weeks tomorrow. You are smiling a lot, and you’re starting to actually laugh, vocally; your mom loves it when you do your fast breathing thing because you get so excited. You really love bath time now; you didn’t initially like it too much. Some of that may have been because A) it was a new thing, and 2) we may not have had the water temp very good. You’re still too small to really be in the big tub without constant supervision, but you’re almost too big to be in the baby tub. You love to splash your legs alot, maybe you’ll be a runner or something. Since you can’t sit up on your own yet, we can’t really put you in anything that’s too big or deep. I can’t wait until you can really start “playing”.
Your Grandmother Judy has been doing a wonderful job taking care of you while we work. I can’t predict what kind of relationship you’ll have with her when youlre older, I hope it’s an excellent one; but regardless you should always be thankful for the love she so freely pours out. I’ve seen you reach for an object which is a pretty decent milestone. There’s more form when you try to roll over, but you seem to be forgetting about your arms, or maybe they’re not that strong. Maybe all your strength went to your legs.
When you try to roll over, you seem to try rolling over your right arm. You’ve got it straight and pretty much under your head, and you’re twisting your legs to try and get your center of gravity moved, but you’re not pushing with you left arm.
We can’t quite figure out if you’re left or right handed yet. A few weeks ago, we both agreed you’re probably right handed, but I’ve seen you do things recently that’s given me pause. I can’t give any specific examples. Maybe you’re ambidextrous, or maybe your mixed handed like Promise.
I think I’ve found two “magic” spots that help you calm down and/or go to sleep. One is when your car seat, you love to be swung; oddly the swing chair doesn’t have nearly the magical effect. I don’t think I’ve ever had you cry if you’re being swung; maybe you’re just too busy dealing with that funny feeling in your stomach to cry, or maybe you just really like it. When it’s too difficult to get you in your car seat, you like to be held as if your breast feeding, even if it’s me holding you (and no, as of the time of this writing, you haven’t tried latching on to me). I can’t tell if it’s because maybe I hold you slightly differently when your head is in my right arm or if it’s because you prefer to be on your right side, but you seem to prefer to being held in my left arm. Both your mother and I prefer holding you this way, so maybe it’s a consistency thing.
This past month, you’ve been doing this thing where you constantly look back and forth. The first time you did this, your mom and I had you on the bed and we were on each side of you, so we thought you were just looking back and forth between the two people who love you the most. But you do it every so often even if I’m on the only person anywhere in your vicinity. I’ve said that, for all we know, babies can see different wave lengths, or on a different plane than we do; so maybe you’re seeing the angels fly around. Your mom thinks maybe they’re playing tennis, I say it’s ping pong ‘cause you can’t fit a tennis court in our house.
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