10 Weeks

This is when my child starts to get truly interesting. This has been the week for visual focus and concentration. She is currently really good at looking at a foil ball that I dangle back and forth, she will follow herself in a mirror, she has become interested in the car seat mobile that her great-grandparents got her, and she will look at the small stuffed animals that dangle above her bed. She especially likes the zebra, I think because it is black and white and has stripes, two things that are especially interesting to infants this age. It's been amazing to watch her make these steps when days before she wasn't doing these things.

She also did something else pretty amazing on Saturday morning. She let me sleep until I wanted to get up, which was a little after 7:00. It was really nice :) She still has a few times when she cluster feeds, but she's usually eating about every 3 hours, and starting to go a little bit longer sometimes, especially after her last feeding at night.

We still just keep thinking about how big she is. At her last appointment, she was a little over 21 inches, which means that she has grown almost 3 inches since she's been born. Her little legs are so chubby, as are her arms and hands and cheeks.

She's smiling so much more and many times will respond to you when you smile at her, and we can go back and forth taking turns smiling. She is also staying up more (she's still great at telling the difference between day and night), but a lot of times I think she has a hard time knowing what to do with herself when she's awake. She can kind of entertain herself for about 10 minutes, maybe 15, but then a lot of times she gets fussy and cries because she doesn't know what to do with herself. When she's totally inconsolable, many times there is only one thing that will fix the problem - Daddy Time. Without fail, Jason can take her in his arms a certain way and sing a little song that he made up, and she will be totally enthralled. (We have video copies for you that you'll be able to see.) It's pretty impressive, and I can't duplicate it. It can get a little tiresome for Jason, though, because it's pretty high-energy and hard to keep up for any long period of time. We're getting much more familiar with her cries, though, and can usually tell when she's simply fussy and can let her cry without feeling as though there's something we could actually do for her. (Just because we let her cry doesn't mean were bad parents, though - PLEASE don't think that... lol.)

She can't wait to meet all of you!