This is used to be the layout of my blog when I was still pregnant with weekly updates. But I guess once I had Toni, that got a little harder to keep up. Plus, some of the weekly updates I could care less for and soon enough, there will be way too many weeks to count. When do you just go by months? hmm...
Nevertheless, I decided to do this blog in that format. So here's the babycenter.com update:
Your 4-month-old: Week 1
How your baby's growing:Researchers believe that your baby can now understand all the basic sounds that make up his native language. Between this time and 6 months of age, he'll develop the ability to make some of these sounds, which means you may hear the words you've been dreaming about, namely "mama" and "dada." While child development experts say it's too early for your baby to connect those sounds with you, that won't make hearing them any less exciting.You can encourage your baby's attempts at communication by mirroring or imitating his expressions and sounds. He may try to imitate you, too. Say "ba" and he may try to say it back.Reacting when your baby makes noises or tries to say something will help him learn the importance of language and better understand cause and effect. It's great for his self-esteem, too: He'll begin to realize that what he says makes a difference.
OK, I decided to put this one in because I am noticing more and more everyday that Toni is much more vocal. I don't mean just in making sounds, but you can really tell she is trying to make something of those sounds. I swear today when I said "alright" to her she tried to copy me. It sounded more like "ahh-ight" (that's hard to mimic in a blog) and I know she may have not been trying to copy me and it just came out, but still. She is advanced. haha! And today she just kept going on and on like she had so much to tell me.
When I picked her up at the school today she was crying her head off and the girl in the room was taking her out of the swing to try and calm her down. I was thinking, "yeah, if she's crying like that. She doesn't want to be put down; you better hold her." Well she was still crying a bit and I took her from the girl and just like that, she stopped. *smug smile* Ahhh... a mother's touch. So I started asking her, "what's wrong? why you crying?" And she just gave me that huge laugh/smile. Melts my heart! But almost like she knew she was trying to get her way. I know at this age babies are still too young to know how to manipulate, but I did say she was advanced, didn't I? haha!
Her stationary entertainer has got to be one of the best things invented out there and I highly recommend it to anyone with a baby or having one. I mean from day one I could track and watch her develop so fast; I mean it's only been 4 months! But having the stationary helps that so much and it's fun to watch her develop with it. When I first put her in hte stationary, I had to watch her some because she was still a bit wobbly and would sometimes get her hand stuck in hole where her legs go. So I'd stay and watch her play just in case. The first time was amazing because she already tried batting at some of the toys and would just stare and study these toys and she'd be completely satisified with doing that. Just in the one month that she's been playing with it, som much has changed. Her muscles have gotten much stronger that I can actually leave her for a couple of minutes and know she's ok. She can still be wobbly at times, but that's the point of the stationary; to hold her in place in case she loses balance. She can now grab these toys she used to bat at and tried her best to put them in her mouth, sometimes succeeding! She can turn herself all the way around in her seat. There is this one toy on there that has plastic pages like in a book; only about 2 of them. She can flip them. And it's so funny because sometimes she studies them so intently it's like she's reading a book! haha! She, of course, will still squeal and babble while playing and sometimes laugh. No, she still doesn't full on giggle but 2 or 3 "hehs" in a row is still fun to hear! She especially does it when you rub your nose or kiss her belly. She loves that!
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