Sophia

Some new words we’ve heard this week:

- water

- No–she is not really saying no to us, rather she’s imitating how she gets told no. Very funny because she uses the full body language.

- Ow. She actually uses this to get attention, pretending to be hurt! Not crying just saying Ow and rubbing her head.

- For a while now instead of saying “outside”, she says “jacket.” She really does like to go outside, wishes she could more than we allow, so runs around unhappily pointing at the door saying “jacket! jacket! jacket!”

She has been pinching over the last few weeks. Mainly Nathaniel. Of course we tell her it’s wrong to pinch, and after she pinches Nathaniel we say she should do something nice like pat his back instead. So sometimes she pinches him then right away soothes him! Yesterday Nathaniel was pouting about something minor and Sophia started rubbing his back. When Nathaniel is crying or complaining she joins in–quite empathetic.

(Dec. 13, 2006 - Age 8 1/2 months)

We’re hearing some fa fa fa and ba ba ba coming from Sophia…

And she started playing actual Peek-A-Boo! She covers her eyes with a cloth/blanket, then looks out. When you react, she clearly laughs. Then she does it again, and you can tell she gets it because I also saw her close her eyes even when the cloth wasn’t covering her eyes.

Finally a child that actually plays peekaboo–Nathaniel never did and I thought they all did. The next step is to get Sophia to say the “peekaboo.”

Sophia had an extra visit to the doctor this week, about a week after
her one-month appointment. In just that one week, she gained a pound!

Birth:
8 lbs. 8 oz.
21 in.

One month:
10 lbs. 8 oz. (100th percentile)
23 1/2 in. (90th percentile)
Head size: 50th percentile

Five weeks:
11 lbs. 4 oz.

Trixie Tracker Baby Tracking Software

Pretty cool use of “Web 2.0″–we might try this out then everybody can track Sophia day by day…

What they need is how to track the parents’ sleep quantity and hours worked also…