Christina Lately

We got a couple smiles out of her!

Christina looks so much like my brother James in the picture below, I can hardly believe it how much! Just a girly, feminine version!

Baby Christina is now 7 months old. She seems to have advanced in a lot of things over the last couple of months! 

When she's in the mood she's able to lift her head and look around. She is starting to use her abs and back muscles in an attempt to sit up. She isn't doing it on her own but she is at least utilizing and developing those muscle groups now. 

Just this week she decided she longer likes to sleep on her back and she will immediately turn over to her belly for Zzzs. At first this made me really nervous because she plants her face into her crib and I was worried about SIDS or suffocating. The first night she flipped to her tummy, I tried to keep her on her back but she would just return to her belly. So I've given up because she clearly has an opinion about it and it seems to be a losing battle! And she seems to be liking it quite a bit and she now sleeps for longer stretches. She tends to do about one 5 hour stretch in the night.

She has basically just become very opinionated about things in general! She is particular about how she is held, who holds her, when she's held and so on! 

It has also been interesting to see who Christina takes a liking to. It seems like some people just have the right touch, like a baby whisperer and she just melts in their arms, while other people she wiggles and fights to get out of their arms. And there is no telling which one a person will be! She always seems to surprise me. For instance, she has a physical therapist that comes to the house to work with her and on occasions two therapists will come. There is one therapist in particular that sometimes comes, a handsome African American man that baby girl just fawns over. Whenever he talks she looks to him, whenever he moves around the room she gazes at him. What a little flirt she is! It is just so funny!

And for baby girls not so good news. Firstly, she only gained one ounce in a month! Not good at all! She weighs 9lbs., 6oz. But she did grow half an inch in length! So we are working (as we have been since her birth) on her weight gain. And secondly, she is having emergency eye surgery this week because her ophthalmologist now believes her left eye is looking larger and may also have glaucoma. The doctors and us are a bit nervous about her having surgery because she failed to initially wake up from anesthesia back in December. So we are praying she will do much better this time around!

Overall she is doing quite well and is surprisingly healthy and happy!