Maddie Claire: Week Sixteen

Sixteen weeks and she is as cute as can be!

Is still a little drool machine and chomps, chomps, chomps on her fingers.
Pretty much eats anything you put in front of her or anything she can get her mouth on. Her favorites are: play gym toys, rings, plastic keys, and daddy's fingers! (Dad said that her little gums are pretty strong)
Has moved her bedtime just a little bit later. She starts her last feeding around 6:30pm and then we do our routine which includes, bath time (every other day), 2 songs ("Favorite Things" from Sound of Music and "You are my Sunshine"), a book of her choice from the bookshelf, we say our prayers, get goodnight kisses and down to sleep she goes. She is pretty good at chomping on her fingers until she goes to sleep and she is usually out by 7:15pm.
Is getting better at settling on her stomach. She always flips herself over, but sometimes she wiggles and fusses until she gets comfortable.
Sits in the bumbo for even longer now. She has to really concentrate when she is in there, so I can't get her to play too much or smile. She just drools, stares at you, and tries to keep that head up.
Is getting really strong! Her head, back, and legs are all getting stronger each day.
Went to Lowes and helped mommy pick out flowers for the front yard. We learned about all the different plants that we can get and don't need too much care (so mom doesn't kill them)! The Lowe's worker loved Madelyn and said she was just such a good baby.
Has started to take an interest in her stroller toys. We only have about a 3 minute drive to school in the morning, but she is always in the back playing with her rings and firefly toy.
We have figured out just how far our monitor reaches. Even though Maddie goes to bed at 7pm, we can still enjoy some street party fun. On almost any night you can find at least one of our street neighbors outside of their house doing something. Now we can take our monitor outside and join in the fun too!
Is doing very well with napping. She takes 3 naps a day (morning, afternoon, and a 30 minute late afternoon nap). Her naps aren't at exactly the same time, but they are within a pretty good window and I'm fine with that. I know that it's hard for kids to sleep at daycare and it's hard to put babies down to sleep at daycare, so I'm just happy knowing that she sleeps at all! The teachers say that she uses her sleep giraffe and pacifier. They usually put her down awake and she has learned to soothe herself.
Slept until between 4:30-5:30am for 5 nights this week...2 nights she woke up at 2:30am. We will keep hoping to get into the 4:30 schedule.
Gives us more to smile about each day. We just love her so much!