In just the last week it seems like her hand-eye coordination has gotten SO much better. She is grabbing for everything, toys, hair, jewelry, food, etc. Harper and EK think it's hilarious and love to call her Swiper (from Dora the explorer). Although, they do hate when she gets ahold of their hair. She is getting so much stronger and sometimes will flex her little abs and lift her head to help when you're picking her up. She still has not flipped from her belly to her back - hopefully she's fine but she is doing a ton of tummy time but generally is just content to hang out on her belly for a while and doesn't make much of an effort to roll that way. She has started trying to pull her little legs up under her belly and it's just crazy to think we may be only a few months away from her crawling.
She is generally a pretty happy, smiling girl. Harper CRACKS her up. To be honest, I'm not sure how entertained she is by Emma Kate which does make me feel a little bad for EK. EK just does not respect personal space and loves to get right up in Caroline's face and yell. EK sort of screeches at them when she needs some space and that just makes EK scream even louder 'mama mama, my baby needs you!' Anytime Caroline is laughing at Harper, I always encourage EK to come play too so she's getting some positive reinforcement from Caroline too :)
I do think she's happier when the big girls are around because they give her some entertainment! She also loves sitting in her exersaucer and playing on her mat. She's content being outside and loved her first few times in the pool!
Caroline has done fine with bottles this month - still not a paci girl but often has her hands in her mouth. She does this talking/yelling thing when she gets tired, often in the carrier it seems. It's so loud that it's hard for me to hear other people around me but she's not unhappy, just yapping very loudly.
We're still swaddling because basically she doesn't sleep that great as it is and we just haven't bitten the bullet to get rid of it. She frequently busts out so the realistic part of me doesn't worry too much about her flipping over and being stuck or anything. Last night at 2:30, she was crying so I went in to re-wrap her and we got into a little tug of war game over her swaddle which had her cracking up. It's hard to be grumpy at night when she's so happy to be around.
And yes… sleep… so elusive around our house. Randomly she'll have a great night where she will sleep until 6-7 but the vast majority she is up twice, usually around 12 and 3. If it were just her it wouldn't be horrible but of course Harper has bad dreams that send her running into our room, or EK needs to go potty, get her nose wiped, etc. But, I'm not sure what it feels like to not be tired and we are managing fine :)
She's wearing mostly 6 month clothes - not sure how much she weighs at this point. Still in size 2 diapers but as soon as we run out we'll move up to 3s.
I still think she favors Harper though I did post a picture of her and EK recently in the same swimsuit and they did look an awful lot alike so we will see! :)
