10 WHAT?!?

10 weeks. Ten. TEN. That's how long my little girl has been out and about in this world. (and almost as long as it's been since I had a post...oops!) We've had lots of visitors and took a nice little jaunt of our own to NY for Thanksgiving. Between visitors here and there, almost half of Sophia's life has been spent surrounded with friends and family. With all that, maybe she'll be a social butterfly, like her brother (have I mentioned that at Halloween he walked into the first house we went trick-or-treating at? Yeah....gotta work on that stranger danger thing.). But Sophia shows some signs of being a bit more introverted. You know how most babies will wrap their fingers around yours if you put your finger in the palm of their hand? (ah, one of those sweet little baby things....) Well, Sophia usually opens her palm wide and pushes away. That little girl knows what she wants and having her space invaded is not one of those things.

A rare, sweet, finger-holding moment. Seriously...I took
this picture because this happens so infrequently.

Where do I begin with my brain dump of all the things I've tried to savor over these last ten weeks. There's the fact that I'm pretty sure she laid on her right side in my belly with her left arm and hand moving freely, a lot like this:

 

I make the left hand comment because she does not let us swaddle that arm at all. I've had friends whose babies didn't like their arms to be swaddled and I always wondered how they knew that. (Aiden loved to be burritoed for the first 4 months of his little life.) Well, now I know. We best not tie down that left arm or there will be fussing until it's free! I think with this baby God decided to answer many of the questions I still had about babies since Aiden wasn't like that. Pacifier? No way. Drinking from a bottle? Hahah, funny joke mom. (Except not that funny since she'll be spending her days with the bottle in less than two weeks...we are working on this like crazy!) Looks like she may be the opposite of her 2 1/2 year old brother who still over uses his sense of taste....

Before I wondered if babies actually knew they were dirty and cried, since a dirty bum never bothered Aiden. Now I know...there are babies who really dislike a dirty bum. Why would you let a baby nap on their belly, when everyone says "back is best"? Because you want them to sleep, that's why! (and baby wants sleep to...just has a hard time staying asleep on her back)

Remember how I said I was nervous that these kids were going to be completely different, and Aiden had been such a good baby that I couldn't imagine what trouble this kid had in store? Well, their baby days are pretty different but it's really not bad just......different. Little miss has basically taught herself to sleep through the night. She's more emotional than her brother, which means fusses over more little things, like being held the "wrong" way or experiencing an unexpected brush against her (Ryan and I have different opinions on which baby fussed more...), but it also means more sweet smiles and coos....that I am really going to miss in a few weeks. I'll try to flood the blog with posts before that going back to work thing happens...