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September 02 About PopsicleOr, About the Baby Formally Known As Jellybean
September 2, 2006
1. She hates to open her eyes
Jellybean spends much of the time with her eyes closed. Sometimes we catch her opening her eyes and when she sees us looking at her, will close them quickly like she was caught doing something wrong. We think that she is saying, "I am still sleeping, my eyes were never open." When we bug her to open her eyes and look around, she will do so using only one eye. It looks like Popeye.
2. She scowls at us.
Jellybean was born with a crease above her nose and will often crinkle her eyebrows and scowl at us. It looks ferocious. Of course she does this with her eyes closed.
3. She has an illusive dimple.
All the nurses in the hospital commented on her dimple. Her dad and I have only seen it once and I wonder if I really did see it that time.
4. She is a terrible eater.
Who would have thought that someone from my family would have a hard time eating. I just don't understand.
5. Her hands are always at her mouth.
A nurse suggested that she probably sucked on her hands a lot while in utero. We think that she is probably right as her ultrasound picture showed her sucking her thumb. When Jellybean is hungry, her hands start squirming around her mouth making it nearly impossible to feed her. Her eyes are closed, her mouth is open, and her arms are swinging... then she gets mad. It reminds me of a baby bird.
6. When she nurses she likes to play tug-of-war.
I don't like this game. At all.
7. She can make her tongue look forked... or other people say "heart shaped". Either way, it is weird
We think that she had a tight frenulum (that piece under the tongue) that has since retracted. Sometimes her tongue looks a little forked, sometimes it looks normal.
8. She is impatient.
She cries when she has her diaper changed. She cries when we change her clothes. She cries when we set her down. She cries the second she wants to eat. She has no patience for any such activities!
9. She snorts when she is hungry.
Rather cute.
10. She coos when she is eating.
Also cute.
November 5, 2006
11. She is instantly comforted by the sound of running water.
A great trick for when I need just a couple minutes!
12. She loves to be wrapped up (swaddled) like a little burrito
I wrap her up, put her in her bed and start bouncing her with the hope that she will fall asleep. Instead she will look at me and smile!
14. She is a very bouncy baby.
She likes to be bounced, bounced, and bounced some more. No swing, No vibrating chair, just bounce. Preferably by me and preferably while I am standing up (no sitting down).
15. Jellybean is not much of a sucker.
No pacifier, no sucking on my finger, no bottles. Nothing. It makes the soothing her thing a tad more work for me!
13. Jellybean will look at the world through the tiniest slits when she is sleepy.
You can barely tell that her eyes are open, but we have caught her watching us through those tiny little slits. Sometimes, she will even give me half a smile when she sees me.
November 22, 2006
16. She likes to suck on her fist.
When she sucks on her fist, she sticks up her knuckle on her bent pointer finger so that it is sticking up higher than the rest of her fingers. When she plays with her toys, she tends to leave her pointer finger bent and knuckle sticking up, just in case she needs to suck!
17. She loves to stare at her feet.
She is trying to touch her feet and stick them in her mouth, but hasn't gotten that far yet.
18. She HATES the car.
I cannot even drive The Moo Girl to school without having a crying baby in the back of the car. I think that she gets bored. So kids like the car and fall asleep... Not Jellybean! I was in a study about infant crying and about died when they asked how often I stick my baby in the car to calm her. Uh.... Never!
19. Jellybean is a Lean-From'er There are lean-to'ers and lean-from'ers. Lean-to'ers are babies that like to lean into your chest when you carry them. Lean-from'ers... well, you know! Jellybean is so interested in the world around her, she leans away so that she can look around.
20. She has stared reaching and touching objects. 21. She watches TV.
I have never seen a baby watch TV before. The Moo Girl didn't pay attention to the TV until she was about 2. Well, she did like the theme song to Third Rock from the Sun and would dance when she heard the song, but she didn't watch the TV, just heard the song. Jellybean actually watches the TV.
22. She will watch and smile at us from across the room.
23. Did I mention that she HATES the car?
I know that this is also number 19, but she hates the car so much that I feel that I need to mention it twice to really reinforce her hatred of this horrible experience. Even though I give her toys to play with, she starts to cry the second I put her in her car seat.
24. She is super strong.
25. She could definitely sleep better.
Jellybean is really good at falling asleep... but not so good at staying asleep.
October 28, 2007
26. She is very focused and determined, to the point of being a bit stubborn.
27. She is fairly verbal for her age. There knows and says many words, but never on command. Some of those words are: bird (all animals are birds), woof woof (all animals say woof woof), hi, bye, mamma, dadda, brandma, buhba (what The Moo Girl calls her gramdpa), night-night, bite, yeah, all done, what's dat?
28. She climbs and climbs and climbs. It amazes me that she can climb on the dining room chairs, bed, and couch. The chairs are up to her arm pits!
29. For her age, she if very tall and skinny. The kid is a bean pole. Around her birthday, she was 90% tall (down from the off the charts tall at her previous appointment) and 5% for weight. It worries me a bit that she is so skinny, but her doctor assures me that she is okay and maybe just add a bit more butter and cream to her food.
30. She can be a bit devious. Her sister will sometimes call her Evil I. Tonight, she played the "ram my trike into mom's leg" game. She would be on the other side of the room and when she turned toward me with her tike, she would squeel and laugh.She is an Evil I!
31. That kid does not want to walk. She is capible of walking, she had the ability, the balance, the coordination she just chooses not too. The girl is just a bit cautious and finds crawling to suit her needs just fine. Stubborn little thing!
32. She loves to yell. Sometimes, she will bend at the middle and give a full body yell directed towards us. It is just so hilarous.
33. I taught her th sign for "All Done." Now, she "All Done's" everything. I am all done in my car seat (three minutes into our car ride). I am all done getting my diaper changes (while not wearing any clothes). Sometimes she combines her signs. She will start waving bye to someone that I am talking with and then tell me that she is all done.
34. Still not the greatest sleeper in the world. I can't even begin to tell you the struggles we have had over sleeping. I hate to even write this for fear that I might jinx myself, but she recently started sleeping through the night. And when I say recently, I mean that my little 14 month old baby has been sleeping through the night for the past two weeks. Well over a year of broken sleep. It is a good thing that she is so darn cute!
35. She prefers chocolate to marshmellows, but hates chocolate milk Last time I gave her chocolate milk, she tried to clean off her tongue. BUT, vanilla steamers, she loves vanilla steamers! Popsicle sees that Starbucks cup and starts giving me her impatient, you are taking too long to get me a straw cry.
Popsicle's Progress
First smile: 3 Weeks
Rolled over: 3 weeks, 6 days (twice in a row!)
Bat at toys: 7 weeks, 3 days
First laugh: 9 weeks, 5 days
Sucks on fist: 10 weeks
Grabs toys and sticks them in her mouth: 3 months
Sits unassisted: 3 months, 3 weeks
First wave: 4 months, 3 weeks
First tooth: 6 months, 3 weeks
Rolls to move around: 7 months, 2 weeks
Scotchs forward (slowly): 7 months, 2 weeks
Shakes head "no": 7 months, 3 weeks
2nd tooth: 7 months, 3 weeks
Starts pulling up: 8 months
Stands without assistance: 8 months, 1 week
Crawls (very slowly): 8 months, 3 weeks
Starts walking around the furniture: 8 months, 3 weeks
3rd tooth: 9 months
Says "What's That?": 9 months, 3 weeks
Brushes her own hair: 10 months
Really, really crawls well: 10 months
Claps: 10 months
Discovered her belly button: 11 months, 3 weeks
First steps: 13 months
Climbs a ladder (real ladder): 14 months
Decides to walk other than when we play the walk to mom game: 14 months
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