It’s been too long since my last entry, things have been very busy but going well. Jett is amazing. She is happy, calm, settled, easy-going, patient and so sweet. She started smiling at seven weeks at grandma Laolao, it was more of a grimace at first; mouth open, eyes wrinkled. But now, Your smiles are so expressive, from sweet little ones when you first see me after waking up, to big twinkly laughs when we have a good chat.
She is just absolutely amazing. I am so smitten. I love that Jett doesn’t cry much except when she’s very hungry, very tired, or is hurt. The rest of the time she looks around, coos at you and practices the head motions, and wait for someone to come and play with her. I always feel little bit guilty for leaving you to sit or lie there while I eat or do some household chores, because you are so patient and so sweet. I feel like you give me so much, and that I want to give you every single moment of my time that I can spare.
We just spent four days at nannies and poppies, at Dolphin point. We didn’t make it there over Christmas because of the fires and the road closures and it was lovely to go down there and go to the beach every day. But you didn’t get to go to the beach because you are too little, and being the sun and the wind would be too much for you. The most I could leave you is for an hour but that was more than enough.
According to wonder weeks you are going through a leap at the moment, started about four days ago, and I think they are exactly right. This is a leap of the world of smooth transitions, and you are supposed to start moving less disjointedly, but with more smooth motion. But I think there’s so much more going on a mental development that’s hard to see. However we have noticed how much your head has grown in the last four days. I swear its grown about 10%. And I know you are learning new things because your facial expressions have more than doubled in variety. I absolutely love watching your face and your whole body explore new movements, new range and sensations.
Prior to this developmental leap, I swear you were the absolute perfect baby. You went down to sleep on your own, settled quite easily once you were wrapped with a baby shushed sound and a dummy. I really don’t have to come in and settle you unless you were overtired. You also have been breastfeeding really well, seeming very eager for the boob, attacking it when you get the chance and sucking vigorously. You do a little head shake to settle over the boob, it’s really special.
Now our feeds are down to about 10-15 minutes each breast whereas before we were half an hour on each breast when you were just born. This means mum has much more time to do other things such as tickle your belly and talk to you about silly things.
However last four days you’ve been unsettled, this started even before we left for nannies and poppies. Right now as I make this voice memo for this blog post, you are doing very big grumbly poos while sitting on my lap. It is both cute and terrifying.
You are also quite a kicker, if we lay you on your back you could manage to kick along the floor and move quite far. Quite often after a nap I will find you killed up on one side of the bassinet face planted against the mesh side. I also notice you’ve been reaching out to touch my face when I lean in close to talk to you, that is absolutely adorable and endearing.
