Snuggle Bug Update

I'm always a little, or a lot, behind these days.

A little behind on the garden. A lot behind on the baby books. Always behind in the house work. Behind on my course preparations, but ON TIME with my marking! Way behind in my fitness goals, and of course, behind with this blog

Ah, who cares really! Not I! However, I would like about 5 more hours in every day and 10 in every night! If there was more time, I'd write about Anneka and her development as a 2 going on 3 year old, or I'd like to make comparisons about adjusting to a baby a second time around, or I'd really like to do a side by side photo presentation of Anneka and Halle at the same ages. But what I'll do this time, is devote a little time for a Snuggle Bug Update.

Little Halle Bug is now 15 weeks. She is truly a gem - well of course I think that. With Halle, as with Anneka, there were some nights in the first couple of months, I thought "Oh, no, I think she might be a colicky baby!" Well, she just had some collicky nights; in reflection, and now that they are seemingly "way" in the past, it is clear she was, and is, a pretty content baby.

I have made zero effort to move her into a routine of any sort, and although there is still none, perhaps a greater consistency is emerging. These days she is usually down for the night around 8:30. Some nights that means she will not wake again for 3-4 hours, and others, she'll need to be resettled a few times before I turn in around 10 or 10:30. As mentioned previously, her sleep hasn't been as good as it was in the first couple of months. For a while there, she would sleep 5 - almost 7 hours before waking up to nurse. These days 4 seems to be the max, but most nights she is settling after nursing quite well. Still, I can't really seem to shake this fatique. Even on those days where I feel energized, as soon as I stop doing stuff, I feel like laying down and having a snooze. What's up?


Back to the routine. A nice thing about Halle, is she doesn't usually get up for the day until after 8. That, I appreciate. If Paul gets up with Anneka that usually means I can sneak in a bit more sleep, which seems to make a huge difference. (Why does this keep going back to me???)

Naps are a little more erratic and so is nursing. In fact, I have no idea what her nursing routine is since I don't really pay attention and large chunks of some days she is being bottle fed expressed breast milk. She usually falls asleep while being carried or while nursing. Her naps can be any where from 20 minutes to 2+ hours. Some days she may have 4 or 5 shorter naps and some days she may have only two really long naps. More often than not, she seems to have one longish naps and a couple of medium length naps and maybe a cat-nap here or there. Between naps she is up anywhere from a bit more than an hour to three or four on the rare occasion. Usually she is up for just under two.

Now here's the fun part. What does she do while awake? She coos and "chats" a lot. She can really get on a role, barely letting anyone get a word in. She is very into squealing and shrieking. She has the sweetest, goofiest smile which makes me giggle every time, and she uses it a lot. Her little nose gets all scrunched up, but it's hard to get a picture of due to her balking at the damn flash!


She hangs out for LONG periods of time in the jolly jumper and on her mats, and shorter lengths of times in her bouncy chair and exersaucer. She has been hanging out on blankets in the shade while I garden. She pushes up straight on her long, skinny legs and holds her back and neck so straight, waving her arms about. She is getting really good at reaching and grabbing objects. But her greatest trick (drum roll, please) is rolling over. For a month or so she has been toppling over from her front to her back on occasion, but in the last couple of weeks she has been purposely rolling over from her back to her front. She is to the point where she just goes for it as soon as you put her on her back and can roll in either direction. Very precocious indeed, miss Halle!