geminigirl | This Baby Thing is Hard Work

(Snapped today with the camera phone while she took a nap on me.)

We got our try it kit from Jillian's Drawers-everything but the BG organic has been washed, and is in the dryer I'm hoping we'll find something we both like to supplement the prefolds. She's finally big enough to wear the diapers I got in May-I bought a Swaddlebes velour and a Bamboozle, and

entirelysonja got me a Bamboozle and a Cricket's diaper as birthday gifts, plus the Bummis flower cover (which she's still not big enough for.) I'm on the prowl for a very specific diaper design though...can't post it here-IM or email me or use LJ's messaging system if you want the details.

Naomi is working very had at rolling over. Today she got stuck on her side and it made her very upset. She's passing toys from one hand to the other-not just things like the spoon that she plays with, but other toys. She's starting to pick up toys or to reach for things, which is wonderfully fun to watch. Her hair pulling skills have improved greatly-she tends to get a handful of my ponytail rather than one strand at a time. I was looking at the pictures from her first bath and amazed at how big she's gotten and how she's changed already (and then I think of

inkedmama's two month old who weighed more at her two month visit than Naomi did ten days ago.)

Her vocalizations have changed. Not much for the consonant sounds yet, but those should come soon. I suspect we'll probably work harder on signing with her soon, too, as her dexterity is increasing.

As for sleep-she doesn't nap much during the day-mostly cat naps on me. She seemed to be developing a habit of napping around eleven in the morning, but not consistently. But night time...that's what I'd like to get a pattern going for. Right now, she goes down for the night between eight thirty and nine thirty. Some nights she wakes completely at around midnight and wants to eat. Other nights she just gets kind of restless at around that time, but dozes back off and sleeps until about four AM when she wakes and eats. Either way she seems to wake up for the day between seven thirty and eight thirty. I'd like to figure out a way to encourage the sleep between eight thirty and nine thirty, wake and eat at midnight an sleep through til seven thirty pattern, but I'm not sure how to do that. Any thoughts from those with children older than mine?

This weekend, I think she's getting her first massage. I'm looking forward to that (we know someone who is a massage therapist who is working on some certifications to teach infant massage or something and asked if she could use Naomi to practice teaching with.) She's a pampered kid.