18 Weeks

Ummm, I think it has been a good week.?.  I don't really remember.  Jeffrey has been off working, so it was a lot of Carmen and Mummy alone time.  Carmen had her four month birthday on Wednesday, and to celebrate she turned over from her back to her tummy for the first (and only) time.  I, of course, missed the event.  I just found her complaining on her tummy in her playgym, and that was not how I had left her!  Yes, I am blessed with a baby I can leave for long periods of time in her playgym.  Does this make up for the crappy sleeper?  Maybe.  Her sleeping actually hasn't been too bad: sometimes she has four naps a day, sometimes two; sometimes she wakes up three times a night, sometimes only once.  But she never has followed a good day with a good night, so if the day is going well, I know I'm in for it that night.  I'm in for it tonight.


Carmen also started solid food.  She gets more on her face than in her tummy, but we are persisting.  She started on rice cereal with formula, but seems to much prefer avocado with formula.  I think she even actually ate some today!  Over this next week, I am trying her on sweet potato and banana too.  I bet she is like her mum and loves banana.

The weather has been muggy and warm, but we are expecting rain all week, so hopefully things will cool off a bit.  The rain is really a good thing, because then I don't have to worry about not taking Carmen on the walks she won't let me take her on :)  It would be nice if I could start shedding some baby weight, but it's not to be.

Anyway, we got some good photos of our little Monkey this week.  There are also two videos, one of Carmen laughing, and one rather long video of Carmen eating her first solid foods.  This one ends like it starts - a mess.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhHvk2PHs6I&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCWk8mwvJx8


Carmen at 4 months

18 weeks
She has replaced her dummy for her thumb...

I can't seem to stop kissing her.