My sweet baby is almost better!

Lynsey's leg is getting stronger every day! When the harness first came off, her leg still wouldn't move much, but every day that leg moves more and more so we are very encouraged. We are still making sure we don't put any weight on it, but I'm thinking it won't be long and we'll be able to get her jumping in her jolly jumper again:). I am so thankful that she has healed so quickly! We can put her on her tummy again so she can work on her upper body strength. She still not doing pushups, but she is holding her head up for quite a long time so we think it won't be long and she'll roll over for the first time. I know that her being in the harness has set her back in that department temporarily, but I'm sure she'll catch up in no time. She had her four month immunizations today and they had to poke her in her bad leg, and she did so well! She cried, of course, but not for that long - after about 20 minutes she was back to her normal self and I didn't even have to give her any Tylenol!

On Sunday night we gave her rice cereal for the first time! Saturday night was a bit frustrating because she got up at 12:30am and needed to eat. I tried for half an hour to just soothe her instead of feeding her, but she just cried until I fed her. My thinking is that she is old enough now that she shouldn't NEED to eat every three hours at night, so I decided to give her some rice cereal. She did really well actually! She swallowed a lot more than I thought she would - still pushed a lot out, but swallowed as well. Yesterday she did even better so I'm anticipating tonight to be even better. She slept 7 - 8 hours both Sunday and Monday night, so that's encouraging. We'll have to see over a longer stretch if this is actually helping her sleep longer since she is so inconsistent with her nights anyway.

On the whole she is becoming a happier baby all the time! She's getting so cuddly - I swear she tries to hug and kiss me sometimes:). It's gotten to the point now where if she is really whiny, it is almost always because she hasn't slept enough and while we are still struggling with getting her onto a good sleeping pattern during the day, at least we know what is wrong! She plays with toys a lot more and I can't WAIT until her leg is strong enough so she can get back into her jolly jumper and try out her new Exersaucer!