10 Weeks

Emma you are 10 weeks old!

(on July 6)

This week you:

~fell asleep a couple of times by yourself for naptime.

~fell asleep while your Daddy was putting you to sleep. This was a first and made momma happy!

~have been trying to establish a naptime routine. You usually get tired around 11 am and will take a nap anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour. Then you get tired again around 4 pm. However, if you only sleep for a little bit in the morning or not at all, you will take about a 2 hour nap around 1 pm. It just depends on if we run errands or how you do in the morning. You still fight naptime so it all depends.

~have gotten rid of your baby acne. A heat rash will flare up when you get hot, but it goes away quickly. The only thing you still have is dryness, maybe cradle crap? I'm just leaving it alone and it seems to be going away.

~had a growth spurt over July 4th weekend. At least I'm pretty sure that's what it was! Saturday we were getting ready to go to a birthday party and you were perfectly fine in your bouncy chair. You started to whine a little, but nothing major. Out of nowhere you started screaming and crying and we could not calm you down! You have never cried like that or for that long before, not even with your shots! You cried for what seemed like forever, but it was only about 3 minutes, and the only thing that I could think to do was feed you (even though you had just finished an hour and a half feeding an hour before!) You still cried some when you started eating but then ate for 20 minutes and were fine. The next couple of days you pretty much ate every 2 hours and when you weren't eating you were either sleeping or fussing. You've been a lot better since, but you're still back to eating almost every 2 hours during the day.

~have started to look back and forth between objects or people. You look back and forth between Daddy and me when we're both talking to you and smile bunches!

~celebrated your first major holiday, July 4th! We had a low key day since you were going through your growth spurt, but we did go to our town festival to walk around. You pretty much slept the whole time and then woke up to eat. We didn't stay for the fireworks because it was late and I didn't want them to scare you, but next year we definitely will! We also didn't make it to the morning parade because we all slept until 8 in the morning!

~make us smile every day!