Smart Little Lady

Anna is now over 4 months old, and she seems to be impressing everyone with her new developments - even the midwife :)

Everyday, Anna has a new sound she likes to play with. For a while, she sounded a bit like a dying cat. Other times she'd squeal - Adam and I would look at each other and ask 'what was that?' not realising it was our daughter. Yesterday, the sound of the day was 'Nnnnnnn'. So she'd talk to me, and to her teddy's going 'Nnnnnnnn N N N Nnnnnn'. Today, she's worked out how to make a farting noise, and boy is it funny!

We also have a new game - we swing back and forth towards a mirror - Anna thinks its hilarious. And I can't stop laughing cos she's laughing uncontrollably - it's the sweetest thing.

We've worked out that Anna is a very homely girl - she certainly knows when she's not at home in her nice comfy room. She doesn't like Chapel Street too much, and she thinks every time we go to Pa and Tiff's house I leave her (because most of the time I do cos Pa and Tiff are such good baby sitters - so it's understandable for Anna to think that). But at home, she lays on her mat with her toys and sings. I think she just likes the sound of her own voice.

She's so good with her toys. She loves her caterpilla (courtessy of Peter and Irene) and as she's teething, she loves teething rings and, well, basically anything she can put in her mouth and chew on. You can feel tiny little buds along her gums. It doesn't seem to bother her though, not keeping her awake or getting her cranky, she just wants to bite everything, and by everything, I mean everything. I'm considering switching to bottle feeding...

She loves to grab things. She's mastered grabbing things out of our hands, and she can roll over and pick things up from the floor. And she's just starting to grab things when she's sitting up.

Anna isn't really getting the hang of 'crawling' - in fact she's far from it. When she's on her tummy, her legs go up instead of under and her arms go out to the side, like she's flying. But that's ok, cos I actually think she'll walk before she crawls. She's so demanding to stand up and she absolutely loves her play station. She stands up on her own. It's kind of freaky.

She loves this little table - it makes sounds and there's buttons and squeaky things on it. One button in particular makes the balls in the middle spin round. After a few times of watching me touch the red button, Anna's worked out that by pressing that button makes the balls move, so she's happy to press the button on her own now.

And just for the record, she's sleeping soundly all night, from about 9pm till 8am - in her cot.

Oh and she really likes listening to music on Adam's headphones. It's so adorable, she just sits there listening. And laughs when I take them off her.

Well, we're off to Adelaide next week - we're all so excited. It'll be Anna's first plane trip.

She's got an incredible set of lungs that makes most people think there's something seriously wrong when she just wants to be picked up, but she does smile and laugh a lot. We're so proud of our little girl - she makes us smile every day. Her smile could melt the coldest of hearts.

Love you, my little angel.

With love,

Mum and Dad.x