Wednesday, May 13, 2009

All the new developments...

Mina is growing up so fast and is getting more and more mobile. Her most recent accomplishment is rolling over from her back to her stomach. She has been able to do the stomach to back roll for a while, and now can do both, although she is better at back to stomach. Because of this, I can no longer swaddle her at night, so it should be interesting to see how the next few nights go, last night she roll onto her stomach, and got her arm stuck between the crib rails and started screaming...poor thing :(
Her 4 month check up went well, she is healthy and in the 50-55% percentile all around, so just a normal baby. I think her not wanting to sleep through the night is the product of her sudden realization that she wants to play more, but hopefully through our efforts she will soon learn that night time is sleepy time.
Here are a few recent pictures of our little angel.
Mina is incredibly expressive, she is always making faces, and moving her mouth all around. I love this particular face.

Mina loves her swing, and her soft blanket, she will just hold her blanket and rub it on her face and start squealing in delight and just smiling, it is the cutest thing ever.

Mina has two new favorite foods....her clothes being the first one (she had her shirt in her mouth for a long time, and was shaking her head back and forth just grinning)

Her next favorite food is dog ear, I hear it is quite the delicacy. (if we put the dog on her tummy, she immediately grabs it and sticks it in her mouth, the ear is her favorite part)

(by the end of this post, she had fallen asleep, unswaddled--hallelujah!!)

3 comments:

Anna said...

OK, so I just LOVE that animal blanket! Where did you get it? It's probably not for sale anymore, but I just love it!

The Critchfields said...

Anna-It was a gift, but I believe it was from target.

Jen said...

She is getting big! I love reading the updates. Don't worry...kids go through these "phases" or so I'm told. Honestly, just when I think I can't take this "stage" of their life anymore, she "grows" out of it. Its a wonderful thing. She will be sleeping in no time! Just keep to the routine!