Dear Sammie,
Today, you turned sixteen weeks old. To be more specific, you are 113 days, 10 hours and 41 minutes (as I write this). You’re my big girl now!
Last week, I wrote about you making the steps towards holding your bottle. This week, there’s no steps about it: you ARE holding your bottle. Daddy is so amazed with this particular milestone. Each time you grab your bottle and ferociously put it in your mouth, he yells for me to come and watch you hold (and devour) your full bottle. That’s pretty impressive for a three and a half month old baby, Miss Sammie!
Holding your bottle as a proud Daddy looks on.
That said, it’s confession time. I’ve been told by everyone (friends, grandparents, photographer…you get the idea) that I need to give you “tummy time.” I knew that I SHOULD be giving you tummy time, but I haven’t been doing it then requisite ten minutes a day (so you could do better at lifting your head while laying on your back). In a nutshell, you screamed like a banshee whenever you were placed tummy down. In my defense, I tried on more than one occasion to lay you on your tummy so you could continue to strengthen your already Herculean neck muscles, but my efforts were circumvented by the crying that inevitably followed when you weren’t on your back.
That WAS the case until this week, at least. A few days ago, I reluctantly placed you on your stomach…and waited for the tears. Only, the tears never came. Ok…this could work! I grabbed the toy keys nearby and started rattling them in front of your face so that you had to lift your head to see where the noise was coming from. I watched your face as the light bulb went on. Gradually, you planted your hands on either side and pushed not just your head but your whole upper body up so that you could see what these *magic* keys were doing now. This phenomenon continued for two whole minutes.
Things are looking up, baby!
Now it was my turn to excitedly shout for your father to see what you were doing…and we both watched in amazement as yet another milestone was crossed off of your list. Unlike the rolling over phenomenon that happened several weeks ago, this milestone is one that has been repeated several times in the past few days. Whew. Just in time for your four month pictures in a few weeks, too. The photographer will be pleased.
Love you lots,
Your mommy
PS You went to your first wedding last week (my cousin Diedra got married), and boy were you the looker! In fact, I think we all looked pretty good--in spite of the blurry picture :-)
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