We’ve seen big improvements from you in the last couple of weeks. You’re adjusting better to life outside of the womb.
You weigh 11 lb, 11 oz (almost a 4 lb gain since birth).
Not sure on your current height, but at your last check up (at 2 months, you were 23.5 inches), you were in the 90% on height. You’re about to outgrow your bassinet. Everyone always comments on how long you are.
You rolled over from your stomach to your back.
You’re still so fidgety. You are only still when you’re asleep.
You try to sit up and stand alllll the time.
You track us really well with your eyes.
You went swimming for the first time.
You “talk” a lot.
You seem to be the happiest baby these days. What a change from your first 3 months! You smile allll day long. You do still have a fussy time from about 9:30-11pm, but other than that, you’re happy.
You laugh now! Love it! I can’t believe you’re laughing so soon. Thank you for this!
You’re doing soooo much better in the sleeping department. You go 8-9.5 hours in between eating at night. Most nights, you go right to sleep without fussing, but some nights, you pout for up to 5 minutes, and then, you settle down. Also, your naps are great! You have 4 one and a half hour naps. No crying. Love it!
You always get comments on your big, beautiful eyes.
Here’s a short video of you at 9 weeks old.
We love you, and we’re so happy you’re a part of our family.
This might be one of your longest sentences: “I wish the Uncle Daniel and the Uncle Josh were here.”
You have started saying things that we have said (only days after we first said it) like: When you were feeding Sabra her dog food, you said, “It’s good to share, Momma.” And when you were playing with something I told you days before that you shouldn’t play with, you said, “It’s dangerous for little girls.”
Lately, you’ve been taking 1+ hour(s) to fall asleep some nights. You just lie in bed talking and talking and talking. Here’s one thing you said that made us laugh, “Abby is trying to get out of the crib.” Also, after GramB’s birthday party, you yelled in a demonic voice, “Happy Birthday GramB . . .” about 100 times.
Can count to 10 every time perfectly (which is in the video). We’re working on 20 now.
You’re getting so much better with your colors. You always know orange, yellow, red, and green. You normally call blue “black.”
You have conversations with yourself. You’ll says things like, “I’m going to the living room. Wanna come? Oooooookay.” or “This polar bear is white. That’s right, Sissah (what she calls Sabra).” or “Abi wants to get the box; I can’t a reach it. Oh, Abi help.”
We still love to hear you pray every night. Here’s part of your prayer from last night, “Dear God, Thank you for the two doors over there. One, two, three . . . Yeah. That’s right!”
You’ve memorized several of your books, like “The Monster at the End of the Book”, “Brown Bear” “Jamberry”, and “Safari Animals.”
Here’s her video below (If you’re reading in RSS, you’ll probably have to go to the site to see the video. If you don’t have facebook, and you want to see the video, let me know.).
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Here are some of the things you’ve done this past month:
Before I put you in your crib for a nap, we sing a few songs, unless you say, “Get in bed.” Well, for the last few days, you’ve been requesting songs. Like today, I said, “Do you want to sing a song?” You said, “Yes, Blue Skies [and] Rainbows.” So we sang that. You help fill in the words when I pause. Your other requests were: “Twinkle, Twinkle,” “B-I-B-L-E,” “Book of the Bible,” “Sunshine (You are my Sunshine),” and “A B Cs.”
You can count to eight and then, you stop.
If we ask you, “What color is this?” You normally answer “Pink” to everything. But if we say, “Bring me the red (or blue or yellow or green or pink or purple) cup, you do that!
You always recognize theseletters when I point to them, and you say: A, B, C, F, O, P, T, W, and you know a lot of the others, too. I’m pretty sure W is your favorite letter.
You don’t say your ABCs by yourself, but if we say A, you’ll say B, then we say C and you’ll say D on down to Z. So you know them well. (There’s a clip of this in the video below.)
Same with the books of the New Testament. It’s so cute to hear you say “Thessalonians” or Philippians” because they have so many syllables, but you pronounce them so well. (There’s a clip of this in the video below.)
In the mornings when I come to get you out of bed, I’ll say, “Is Abi awake?” You say, “Yes. Sleep sack off; humidifier off; get out of the bed.”
You’re still not so great in the eating department, but we always make sure to get you out of your high chair on a happy note. We taught you to say, “Thank you for the food. Please may I get down” (which is what my parents made me and my siblings say when we were in elementary school). When you say it, you can’t help but smile and bounce around.
You help Daddy make and eat pancakes every Saturday while Momma tries to get a few extra minutes of sleep.
Instead of saying, “You want the book/cup/toy,” etc like you used to do. Now, you say, “May I have the book, please?” I love teaching you good grammar so young!
You’re starting to do imaginative playing: you’ll “squirt” us with your water faucet from your play kitchen. You’ll let Mr Bear drink your milk. You tell me you’re cooking pancakes in the morning.
Here’s your Monthly Video:
Every month we’re amazed at how much you learn and change. We love watching you grow.
Besides talking about family members and friends, here are some cute, random things you have thanked God for in your prayers: Mr. Bear, the big ball, rabbit, humidifier, the turkey, Santa Claus, towel, bed . . .
You love stairs, which you call “big steps.” We can’t keep you away from them.
You have your pronouns mixed up when you say things like, “Mommy, hold you please.” or “You want the big ball, please.” We do correct you, but we do kinda like it. Other than that, you’re still amazingly advanced with speech. Strangers can understand you and carry on conversations with you.
For the past two Sundays and a Wednesday night, you have cried when we left you in the nursery at church. This is confusing to me because you love going to bible class, and they say that soon after we leave, you do great. I guess you’re getting attached to Momma again.
Also, two times during this past month, you have woken up early from your nap crying. I’ve gone in there and done something I’ve never done before: gotten you out of bed, sat in the rocker with you, and you actually cuddled me and stayed still for more than 30 seconds. I’m not sure how much of these times you were asleep, but you held onto me for about an hour each time, and I loved every second of it.
Your canines on top have poked through, but they’re not fully grown yet.
You have been fussier lately when we’re out in public. You had never cried or pouted in public until a couple of weeks ago. So, that hasn’t been much fun lately.
You’ve been better with eating this last month. Hopefully that will continue.
As always, we love you tremendously. Here’s your 20th Month Video . . .
Ever since I got pregnant again, I’ve been watching Abigail and wishing that she wouldn’t grow up. I hate to think that I might be “replacing” her baby time with a new baby. I know she’s becoming an awesome toddler, but I wish she could still be “little.”
You are acting like such a big girl these days, and you’re so much fun.
You’ve almost got 16 teeth; your top canines are coming in a little bit. But you’re a trooper through it all. You never even wake up at night from pain. Thank you! I hope your baby sibling will sleep as well as you always have.
You know words to songs, and you’ll sing them, if we pause during a song.
Sabra is playing with you a little more (as you’ll see in your video). She actually goes and gets her toys when you throw them now. You think she’s the greatest thing on earth.
You say your own prayers every night or whenever prompted. I love them!
You can say up to eight word sentences. Here are some sentences that stick out:
-”Just look at that pumpkin flashlight!”
-”I want to get in bed.” (I sing you a few songs while rocking you before your nap time. Before I sing you a new song, I ask, “Do you want to sing ____ or get in bed?” It’s so cute when you say you want to get in bed. Awesome.)
-”Shhhh. quiet; ______ is sleeping.” We act like we’re sleeping, and you come give us a kiss to wake us up. You even kiss Momma’s belly to wake up baby.
-”I see you later, Alligator.”
-”The girl is eating a bite of [an] orange orange.”
-”Ooopsy Daisy, Elbows.” You have this thing about touching your elbows, especially at night when you’re going to bed. Now that it’s winter, a lot of your night time shirts have long sleeves, and sometimes you get frustrated when you can’t pull your sleeves up to touch your elbows.
-”[Abi cough] Bless you Abi. [fake Abi cough] Bless you Abi. [fake Abi cough] Bless you Abi. [repeat process about 20 times].”
You are learning to obey really well. Most times, I’ll tell you to come here, or stop doing something, and you will!
You got your first real hair cut. And we’re trying to grow out your hair, but it’s an annoying process because it’s as straight, thin, and whispy as your daddy’s, and it doesn’t want to go anywhere except for hanging in your eyes. But you’re better about wearing bows to keep your top hair from getting into your eyes.
You’re still afraid of the vacuum cleaner. I think it’s the only thing you fear. We kinda like it though, because you’ll cuddle with whomever is not vacuuming. And this is the only time you cuddle. And by cuddle, I mean sit still on our laps.
In big church, you say, “Amen” really loudly after prayers. Yesterday, you also saw one of your friends, and YELLED “Maddison!” All those around laughed.
So I’m a little slow these days getting posts up; sorry. You might be slow, too, if you spent 100% of the day being nauseated and throwing up about 3x a day. So, in case you didn’t get Abigail’s hint on Friday, I’m pregnant. But I’ll talk about that later in many other posts, I’m sure. It’s Abby time . . .
Here are some changes we’ve seen in Abigail over the past month:
She loves to spin around. She twirls in circles probably 10 different times during the day. It’s fun to watch her get dizzy; she laughs at herself.
She also likes to jump, and she’s getting better with throwing balls. Sabra is finally playing fetch with her. She’s already really precise with kicking a soccer ball (YEA!).
She’s got at least 14 teeth.
She’s becoming more of a Daddy’s Girl (yea!). Because I’m not able to do much these days, Jonathan does 100% of her diaper changes, baths, etc when he’s home. So, Abi’s going to him more when she wants a book read or wants a song played.
She says pretty much every word we say. She puts together 4-5 word sentences.
She doesn’t want to get her picture taken much anymore because she wants to “watch” the digital screen on the camera instead. You’ll see this in two of the video clips I put in her 18th Month Movie.
She’s getting into stickers. She’ll point to the one she wants and say, “Want this a one please”, and I’ll get it off for her.
When she wants us to chase her, she’ll say, “I got you . . . bah, bah, bah, . . .”
She’s wanting to be more independent: like in her eating (not wanting us to spoon/fork the food and give it to her). And yet, she also wants to still be the baby: like in the last few weeks, she wants to be held more instead of her walking by herself.
She sees friends–not just family– and calls them by name, without us having to say their name.
