Love, bubs and life on our little farm

Its been awhile! I have a rotten flu and Elka has been going through her 12 week growth spurt so things have been fairly busy and tough!

We moved bub into the nursery for her night sleeps - still in the basinette though. She is doing well with that. Although she started waking again as part of her growth spurt - we had some 3am wakings again. It was only a few nights though and now she is back to sleeping from 7pm, 10.30 dreamfeed and 6amish feed. She was also pretty grizzly and started catnapping for her day sleeps. I have got the catnapping sorted again - moved her morning feed a little later and have started wrapping with a more secure technique as she was getting her little arms out and sucking away on her fingers and waking herself up. Now she is back to her lovely long 2 hour day sleeps - yay! That is my time to ride so its nice to get that time back!

She is getting very tactile now. Her little hands are getting good at grabbing things and dragging them mostly to her mouth! She grabs and holds the toys on her playgym. You can give her a toy with a ring and she will hold it and throw it around etc. She is also grabbing her clothes and dragging them up to her mouth also.

She is getting very strong with her tummy time and is actually enjoying it for awhile! She kicks her legs and is doing little "push-ups" with her arms. I dont think she is near rolling for awhile though!

Today Jase put her in her bouncer (which we use as a swing normally - which she loves!) and lowered her so her feet were touching the ground. SHe actually started doing some little jumps! Cant believe that she is already at that stage!

She has learnt to blow raspberries and does them all the time! (see photo strip below!) She gets quite enthusiastic and spits everywhere sometimes! She will do them in response to us doing one to her - very cute!

She is noticeably more settled in her awake time and quite happy to sit and play. She is much easier to take out and about as she is quite predictable and happy to go with the flow. She is pretty keen to be held however and will often grizzle if she gets put down or left in the pram!

I marvel at how darn beautiful she is and how she already knows and loves us as her parents. I love the little warm hugs and her sleepy head resting on my chest. Its a beautiful age with lots of little baby hugs but also grins and laughs and cheeky faces.

I still cant believe how fast the time is going... where has this year gone!

This weekedn should be nice - a horse comp and my parents coming to stay and my brother is also coming up. Hopefully some bubby hugs and smiles will help a little with the pain of his broken heart :( poor fella..