5 weeks

What Riley has been up to...

• Sleeping longer stretches at night (thank goodness!!), and awake for longer periods during the day.  Last night, for example, after bath and story time, she slept from 7 pm to 11:15pm, woke up to eat, and then slept from 12:30am to 3:30am, ate again, then back to sleep from 4 to 6:45.
• Tracking people and objects with her eyes, and moving her whole head and neck to track things as well.
• Smiling a little bit more at us, although not really sure if these are true smiles or not.  I swear at least a couple of them are!
• Taking  a bottle almost once a day from daddy.  She is now a pro which means I can go out and run errands sans baby, without worrying that she's at home screaming in hunger.
• Sleeping in her crib for some of her day time naps, and is taking more naps NOT in my arms.  The record is last night, sleeping for 4 hours just laying on the bed while Mark and I watched a movie.

Riley likes...

• sleeping in her mommy and daddy's arms
• her swing, for short periods of time
• eating
• having her arms up by her face when sleeping
• laying on her side
• snuggling her face into mommy's chest before bed time
• baths!
• car rides
• foot and leg massages
• when mommy rubs her little head
• her fisher price seahorse
• when daddy zooms her around the house like a rocket
• her paci
• when mommy sings to her
• reading books

Riley does NOT like...

• waiting for food
• having her clothes and diaper changed
• her moses basket
• putting a hat on
• being strapped into the car seat
• being held upright for long periods of time
• sudden noises
• tummy time!
• being woken up
• when you pull her paci out of her mouth
• being swaddled with her arms down by her sides

And here she is, staring at herself in the mirror above her swing...

And in case you didn't get enough pictures...

See that last picture?  Can you see the red ring around her lips?  Thats from sucking the life out of her bottle... see video below... hear those sounds?  Baby sucking. Maybe time to change the bottle nipple??