This
month has really flown by. Partly, perhaps, because I went back to work, partly
because we have been so busy. It seems like everyone we know is either getting
married or having a baby. This makes for a lot of celebrations! Clara has
attended bridal showers, baby showers, and will soon attend her first wedding.
As much fun as we’re having celebrating all of our friends and family members,
it will be nice when things slow down and we can relax.
Meeting Trudy |
Meeting Ushie (probably spelled incorrectly) |
Meeting Kennieth |
The little Wiggle has really changed a lot this past month. She continues to be really happy and
now laughs up a storm. All you have to do is smile at her or make a funny sound
and she starts laughing! She has also begun rolling all over. She can really
move around the floor by rolling and scooting. Gone are the days of leaving her
unattended on the bed or changing table!
We
think that Clara has started teething. We still can’t see any teeth, but she
has been having fussy spurts which correspond to a need to bite and chew everything.
I bought her some different teethers and she really seems to like these and
they soothe her.
I've
started putting Clarita in the Bumbo chair in the shower with me if she’s fussy
when I need to take a shower. My friend Denae came up with this great idea for
her son Connor. When she told me about it I knew that it would be a perfect way
for me to take a relaxing shower (well more relaxing than with Clara crying).
Clara loves it! She likes to look up at the water as it hits her. I usually
wash her off when I am done and hold her up to the stream of water to rinse her
off. She thinks it is really fun and laughs.
Now
that I’m working, Clarita drinks mainly from bottles. I still nurse her
when I’m home, but gave her a bottle at a shower last weekend. I didn't realize
that she connects bottles to eating until I witnessed her response to the
bottle. Upon seeing it, she immediately started reaching for it and whimpering
the same way she does with me when I am about to nurse her. It was interesting
to watch and realize that she’s learning to associate different things with
their functions.
The Johnsons |
Clarita's Stats
Weight: 13.8 pounds
Height: 26 inches
Head Circumference: 42 centimeters
What Clara Wears
3 month outfits are getting pretty tight and she’s starting to wear 3-6 and 6 month outfits
Things Clara Loves
Mama and Dada, nursing and bottles, going
for walks, getting undressed and having naked baby time, her
"soothie" pacifiers (especially her monito and Bevo), snuggling,
baths, baby exercises, the miracle swaddling blanket, car rides, the
Baby Bjorn, the rain forest play mat, reading books, sitting in the
Bumbo chair while mommy and daddy eat, massages, being a baby airplane, meeting
new people, ceiling fans, drooling, the exersaucer, tummy time, swimming,
people, taking showers with Mommy in the Bumbo, playing with her toys, her teethers, rolling all over the floor
Things Clara Does Not Love
Waiting, going to sleep when she’s overly
tired, having a new diaper put on
How Clarita Sleeps
Clarita continues to sleep off and on
throughout the day as she sees fit usually with at least one long nap in the
morning or afternoon (sometimes both). We stopped swaddling her this month and started
putting her in a sleep sack. Sometimes it worked great and sometimes it did not
and she cried angrily and took half an hour to get to sleep. A couple of times
she woke up in the middle of the night and had to be swaddled in order to go
back to sleep (twice I even nursed her because she got so upset it was the
easiest way to calm her down). Clara flails so much that she wakes herself up (usually
a pacifier puts her right back to sleep) or can’t fall asleep. We’re still
working on this problem and hoping she improves. She’s spoiled us with her
great sleep that we don’t know what to do with ourselves now that she’s been
waking up during the night!
Nicknames
Baby Butter, Clarita, Snugglepuff, Snuggles, Wiggles, Baby/Bebe, Bambina, Sapita, Munchkin, Drool Monster, Birthday Twin (from Tio Chino)
Monthly Exciting Events
Nicknames
Baby Butter, Clarita, Snugglepuff, Snuggles, Wiggles, Baby/Bebe, Bambina, Sapita, Munchkin, Drool Monster, Birthday Twin (from Tio Chino)
Monthly Exciting Events
August 14, 2013: Clara rolls
completely over (back to front to back)
August 11, 2013: Clara's
first time hitting a piƱata
August 10, 2013: Clara
watches her first triathlon
August 8, 2013: Clara rolls
over from back to front
August 7: 2013: Clara sits up
unassisted!
August 3, 2013: First bridal
shower and first FUN DAY!
July 29: Graduates from the
bassinet to the Pack 'N Play
July 28, 2013: Clara's first
"shower" in the Bumbo Seat with Mama
July 27: First time sleeping
in the sleep sack instead of being swaddled
July 22: Mommy goes back to
work :( (unexciting event)
Monthly Pictures
Five Months! |
She discovered that she can pull her headbands... |
See, she's not always happy |
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