Weeks of Big Milestones

Evie has been leaping firmly into the world these past few weeks! She feels like a little girl to me now, no longer the beautiful, porcelain doll of her first months. She locks her eyes on me and clearly communicates her needs. She's more active in general - especially in the mornings from nine to eleven - which means that she's napping regularly. She takes a nap at eleven in the morning and again at three in the afternoon. She's asleep by seven in the evening and only wakes up twice during the night - once around midnight and again at four-thirty. At seven she's wide awake and ready to play. Sometimes she hears the other children on the block getting ready for school and wants to go outside on the porch and watch the action. One day we'll be rushing to get her packed up and in the car - probably with just as much chaos as we hear from our neighbors!

The biggest news of the past two weeks is that Evie has had several important breakthroughs! Or, according to her pediatrician, she's reached three major milestones: Rolling over, grasping objects with one hand, and the development of binocular vision (i.e. depth perception, gazing intently, and accurate tracking). This is all very exciting for her proud mother of course. I think it might also be kind of exciting for her, although in some ways she's getting more frustrated than before. Now that she's really focusing on what she wants to grab, and has the depth perception to accurately aim for things, she becomes quite peeved (and sometimes injured) when the object doesn't go from her hand to her mouth quite as smoothly as she'd intended! 

One of the most important 'milestones' Evie reached was when she was with her Auntie Becky doing "Tummy Time" on Sunday (2/6)! Here is a video taken just after the event!