21 Weeks, Tripoding, and Jumping

A few things I love about this age: Since we started not swaddling at night, she wakes up and talks to herself.  It's sort of a whisper. I usually wake up to it first thing in the morning rather than crying.  When I lean over and tell her good morning she gives me a great big smile.  She is generally happy these days. (Other than when she is too tired, then she acts like you are torturing her when you try to get her to sleep.)  When I talk to her she usually gives me a smile.  She giggles when you lift her into the air or pretend to eat her belly.  She is always learning something new. She is well on her way to sitting.  It seems too young to me but she is tripoding.  She is so squirmy these days.  Yesterday, she found that she really likes to jump.  She's always been bouncy. But now it's constant jumping.  She is always chewing on her hands, her feet, our hands, toys, my phone, or whatever she can get her hands on.  Nothing is allowed to be on the arm of our couch.  She will grab one thing, drop it, and grab another until the arm is clear.  She is especially fond of doing this when I'm folding clothes and have them sitting there.  She also likes to grab, pinch and yank my nose, lips, and hair.  I don't love that so much.  When she nurses she's always patting my face and neck, pulling on my shirt, or popping my straps.  The middle of the night feedings are the only time she's awake and still.  I think that I will miss them if she ever starts sleeping longer. She's also been pulling her own hair a lot the last few days.  It drives me bonkers.

Speaking of sleep, in other, less exciting news, let's talk about poop and sleep.  We've started having leaky diapers again so we moved up to 2s.  We've still had a few leaks with them.  Maybe we need to start solids soon and hope it helps with this.  Sleep is going better in general but we still have bad nights.  Saturday night she was up every 30 to 90 minutes.  Last night she was awake from 11 to 12:30 or so, got up to eat at 6, and was up for the day at 8:30.  She's been taking a nap or two in her crib during the day.  I've been swaddling her for those. I've found that it really helps.  It's kind of funny that we always swaddled at night but not for naps until a couple of weeks ago, and now it's the opposite.  She still has times when she is inconsolable.  Not in the colicky sort of way.  More in the I'm so sleepy but don't want to go to sleep and you are trying to make me sleep so I am so mad sort of way.  She also hates getting dressed.  She gets really mad if you try to put a hat or headband on her.  Once it's on, she's fine and leaves it alone.

These were taken yesterday. I think her bear has shrunk or something. 

Because I'm sure everyone likes to see pictures of peanut here are a few from today.  We decided to do a few outside today.  I love the first one.  She then fell over so decided to try the grass.