Sara Update Week Ending April 7, 2001
Hello Family,
This has been a big week. Three major events.
First, we are starting to give Sara rice cereal every day. Mind you, we are talking about one teaspoon of cereal and two teaspoons of breast milk so it's not that much. It seems to help Sara sleep longer at night so we are pretty excited.
Some of you have asked if Sara is sleeping through the night. First, did you know that "sleeping through the night" as defined in the books is sleeping five consecutive hours? Even so, Sara is not sleeping through the night. She sleeps about 2 or 3 hours at a time, and a good stretch is 4 hours. That's why having her sleep a bit longer would be nice.
Second, Sara is starting to recognize her name. Before this week if you called her name she wouldn't turn (except maybe to see where the sound was coming from). Now she turns when you call her name. Pretty cool.
Third, and the big, big news is that Sara is crawling. Not just moving forward on her tummy, but actually crawling on her hands and knees. It's amazing. More amazing is that she can "cross-crawl" which means she can crawl using one hand and the opposite knee. She is working on technique rather than speed, but she has gotten considerably faster over the week. Our childproofing efforts have gone into overdrive.
Sara loves wires. She will cross a room to examine, chew, pull, wrap and tug on them. We continue to find creative ways to hide, tape, eliminate or consolidate them. We are just barely one step ahead.
We put some new photos up on www.alanandvictoria.com if you want to see.
Love to all, Alan and Victoria
This has been a big week. Three major events.
First, we are starting to give Sara rice cereal every day. Mind you, we are talking about one teaspoon of cereal and two teaspoons of breast milk so it's not that much. It seems to help Sara sleep longer at night so we are pretty excited.
Some of you have asked if Sara is sleeping through the night. First, did you know that "sleeping through the night" as defined in the books is sleeping five consecutive hours? Even so, Sara is not sleeping through the night. She sleeps about 2 or 3 hours at a time, and a good stretch is 4 hours. That's why having her sleep a bit longer would be nice.
Second, Sara is starting to recognize her name. Before this week if you called her name she wouldn't turn (except maybe to see where the sound was coming from). Now she turns when you call her name. Pretty cool.
Third, and the big, big news is that Sara is crawling. Not just moving forward on her tummy, but actually crawling on her hands and knees. It's amazing. More amazing is that she can "cross-crawl" which means she can crawl using one hand and the opposite knee. She is working on technique rather than speed, but she has gotten considerably faster over the week. Our childproofing efforts have gone into overdrive.
Sara loves wires. She will cross a room to examine, chew, pull, wrap and tug on them. We continue to find creative ways to hide, tape, eliminate or consolidate them. We are just barely one step ahead.
We put some new photos up on www.alanandvictoria.com if you want to see.
Love to all, Alan and Victoria
posted by Alan T at
Sunday, April 08, 2001
