Interactive Baby

So it's been awhile since my last post, and much has changed. Kaitlyn is getting really filling out now and it quite cute and cuddly. The past few days she's been sleeping rather well. She now seems to sleep at night for 4 hour blocks. Which is really nice for hitomi. Who can now get her 8 hours a night in two chunks, which is a far cry from barely any sleep at all.

Kaitlyn has finally out grown her newborn sized diapers, and our wallets are very thankful. She also alot more animated and interactive. Her personality is really starting to show.

She likes to listen to music, she likes to sit up and listen to you talk, she likes to practise standing and lately she likes to take small steps. When she stands she looks so happy, especially when her legs go from floppy to standing stiff. It's kinda like she's happy to get it right. She can't really hold her own weight, but i estimate I'm supporting less than half her weight.

When you talk to her, she leans her head forward and looks at you, like she is listening intently, every now and then she'll goo or gaah in response. She is getting quite vocal now, the other day i caught her chatting to a pot plant, and hitomi can tell the noises she makes when she wants to be picked up.

It's remarkable the change that we've seen in the past couple of weeks. Part of me thinks this is going to be alot of fun :) though hitomi may disagree with me there.

Smiling Dancing Baby

So here's our current best smiling baby pic. That big stripy thing is Hitomi's shoulder and this was one of many photo's. Kaitlyn still has her night and day flipped but we are working to try and fix that. Hitomi is slowly becoming a Vampire as she takes the night shift while I sleep so I can work.

Kaitlyn is getting bigger by the day, at last measure (a week and a bit ago) she was 3.5 kgs (7.7 lb) almost a full kilo heavier than her birth wieght. She's still rather tiny though and is still wearing Newborn sized diapers. (Which are expensive as they don't sell them in bulk packs)

She's able to hold her head up to some degree, and likes to look around. She likes to sit up (with our support) and will often grizzle to let us know that she wants to sit up.

We've also found that she likes to dance. To mashups no less. At the moment our latest groove is 2 many DJ's and when it's on she stares intently at the stereo. Then as we bop to the music she relaxes and enjoys the groove. Kinda cool actually.

Also when music is on in the room she seems more at ease, but gets fussy when people are talking and there's no music. So much so that we are considering getting an iPod dock for her room. LOL she's not even 2 months old and she gets her own iPod dock.