6 (1/2) Weeks

Sometimes I think we gave birth to a 2 month old, and as much as I try to convince Meili to stay small forever, she is already blatantly disobeying her mom.

So here are some milestones...

-Meili is sleeping through the night. Her last feeding is at 11:00 and she generally starts making noise at about 6 or 7 until I just decide to wake her up and feed her rather than listening to her grunting. Then I put her back in bed and she sleeps until about 9 or 10. She probably would have slept through the night from the day we brought her home from the hospital, but I'm a paranoid first-time mom and wanted to make sure she was getting enough to eat. So I'm gradually letting her sleep longer and longer.

-She started really smiling a lot about a week and a half ago. And let me tell you, it is awesome! This is the closest I've come to getting a picture of her smiling, even though this isn't my favorite picture of her.

So I added this one too just for fun! This looks more like her.

-She's getting better at holding her head up, which means less cuddling on my shoulder :( She always just wants to be looking around and keeping her head up.

-And her newest trick...rolling over! She actually rolled over once when she was 3 weeks old. (I know you don't believe me, no one else does either.) I think it really was a fluke, and I didn't think she would be able to do it again, and of course, Josh and I were the only witnesses and no one believes what we say anyway. But she rolled over twice more on Sunday, 3 times on Tuesday, and we finally have my friend, Hope, as a witness today. On Tuesday, when she first did it for me, I almost started crying. It was a textbook roll over, and I can't believe she's growing so fast. I got a video of it. It's probably the least exciting video in the world to everyone but me. But we are so proud!

I know, we have a wonder child huh? Don't get me wrong, it hasn't been all peaches and cream. Sleeping through the night comes at a price, meaning that she has a hard time taking naps during the day. She'll get really tired and fall asleep instantly if I am holding her, but as soon as I put her down she wakes up, or she'll sleep for only about 20 minutes-which makes it hard for me to get anything else done. It's really weird, because at night, she can be wide awake and I swaddle her and she falls right to sleep, but nothing works during the day. If I swaddle her during the day she gets frustrated trying to get out, but if I don't she wakes herself up kicking. So if any mothers out there have any ideas for me, I'd love to hear it.