Soothing songs

This week Bella has been a little fussier than normal. Maybe it's teething or just one of those "weeks". Some of the times she has been persistent in not going to sleep in her crib. After 15-20 minutes we'll usually go get her and comfort and then put her back down, which hasn't worked all the time over the past couple of days. The thing that seems to calm her down (along with bouncing up and down) is her daddy singing hymns. He would sing during pregnancy and she would seem to respond to that by kicking. Or one night she was particularly active and it was hard for me to sleep. He started singing and it put us both sound to sleep. Then, three months later when I woke up at 2am with full-blown contractions he came over to me in the hospital bed when I didn't want to do it anymore (can't stop labor though, can you!) and started singing hymns and rubbing my hand. He sang for four hours straight until I could get an epidural! Four hours - 2-6am! It was fantastic and so calming to me as I was having a not so pleasant experience. So, our sweet Bella heard daddy's voice for four hours during that time. It's not surprising to me that she really calms down when he sings to her now. The other night I was cleaning the kitchen while Bella was having one of her fussy times. After lots of singing from Mike here is the end result. So sweet!




Miss Bella this week has:
-Started finding her feet. She just stares at them and has started grabbing them! So sweet.
-Started putting everything in her mouth. She loves to lift up her dress or shirt and stick them in her mouth. Or go for our clothes or fingers or hands or anything else she can grab.
-Started laying on her side. Last week she could get her legs flipped over but was having a hard bringing her torso over. Now, she can get completely on her side but still can't figure out how to really roll over...unless we give her a gentle nudge and then she laughs.
-Laughs and laughs when we change her clothes. She thinks it's a game in the morning to get her arms out of her nightgown. She laughs with cute spurts throughout the process.
-Wiggled and wiggled while we put lotion on her after her bath. She LOVES to kick and fling her arms out. We are going to have our hands full.
-Found herself and us in the mirror. We put her in her nightgown and dry her off after her bath in our bathroom which has a huge mirror. She can see us in it upside down (wonder what she's thinking). So, we'll play with her in the mirror and she loves it!!