**Bree weighs somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 pounds 10 ounces and 10 pounds 13 ounces (according to my kitchen scale)
**She has the sweetest little voice that is the mixture of cooing and a kitten purring.
**In the last week she has started to reach for toys and she has discovered her hand.
**Poor little thing has had a rough month sleep-wise, but I think we finally figured it out. After her shots she had about 9 days where she was just super sleepy. She was doing several naps that lasted 2+ hours a day. She had one night that she slept for 8 straight hours! Little girl was just exhausted. At the same time, everyone else in our house was fighting off a cold. Bree developed an occasional cough but nothing else presented itself. All of sudden, just as quickly as the sleeping started, it stopped. One night she started waking up every 2 to 3 hours. I thought it was a growth spurt. Over the next week I noticed that she wasn't having as many wet diapers, but I didn't connect it. And then she stopped stooling as frequently. And she was rooting around like crazy and mouthing everything. It took a couple of conversations with my sister-in-law last week before I had the epiphany that Bree wasn't getting enough to eat. Immediately I started offering her both sides at nursing time and increasing her feeding to once every hour and a half. Within 36 hours we had a happier, more talkative Bree. It took a little convincing for her to start eating off of both sides, but it was worth the fight. Now she is eating quite well and has had a dirty diaper every day for the last 4 days. Yippee! Her sleep is starting to normalize again, too. So, I have no idea how many naps will be her normal (probably 4), but I'm hoping to start seeing a schedule emerge for her in the coming weeks.
**Her happiest times are right after eating. She loves to give big smiles and talk to you.
**She finally took a ride in the Baby Bjorn without throwing a fit. She even fell asleep and took a nap in it! I see this coming in handy in the next few months.
**She still refuses a binky. However, for the most part, she doesn't seem to need it. Walking and bouncing her can do the trick quite well most of the time. She still likes to suck on her fist and I have been trying to help her find her thumb, but we're not there yet.
**My sister-in-law taught me how to make some simple headbands and now I'm in love! There is no reason that Bree won't be wearing a headband whenever we go out. She has too many of them now. (The one in the picture is one I made on Saturday night.)
**I love my patient, mellow little baby girl!
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