Well little bobble-head,
Looking after you is something of a long-distance, endurance-type sport, hence the creation of your latest nickname, 'The Lexathon'. You are a very busy little girl, kicking, grabbing your knees or feet and rolling onto your side, pulling your playmat down over your head and generally throwing your little pudgy body around like nobody's business.
You chew on whatever you can lay your little baby mouth on - toys, carpet, shoes, bags but ideally, if you can get it, human bodyparts, particularly my thumb (it must be very tasty indeed).
Teething
You appear to have been teething since January - you drool, your little cheeks go bright red and you grind your toothless little gums together as if all your teeth are set to spring forth in a scary, shiny, miniature set (God,wouldn't that be creepy? Especially if they were all gleaming and pointy....shudder...)
Discovering your hands
You spent the majority of February engrossed in an exhaustive study of your hands - up close, far away, from the front, from the back, fingers, nails and skin. All were poked, squinted at and generally admired from all angles.
Toys
You are also more and more interested in play mat dangley toys and toys in general. You took rather a shine to Georgie's Spencer Bears (1 - 3) - I'm surprised she lets you anywhere near them but she actually gives one to you on a regular basis, even though you chew his paw.
You have a favourite toy that you sleep with, a rabbit called Kalloo (thanks Emma), and you stroke and/or hold his ears as you fall asleep. Aaah.
There's also a rattle that Claire gave you, which looks like a King and has therefore been named Elvis. Will try to find a pic of him too...
And lets not forget Doggie, whom you kindly share with Georgie from time to time...
Lexi's NCT Babies
We meet up with the other NCT refresher ladies and babies whenever we can, and we even managed to get a shot of all the babies together at Jo's house:
I'm going to try to name them all left to right (sorry if I get any wrong!)
Gabriella, Lexi, Lily, Lucas, Annabelle and Eleanor. Lovely little people they are too x
Gained Weight
Your scary weight loss appears to be of the past, although your acid reflux did keep getting worse for short periods, because as your weight goes up, your doses need to go up too, but that was fairly obvious and caused little or no confusion (to us anyway).
Grandad's 70th Birthday
Grandad's 70th birthday came and went and probably passed you by but just so you know, it did happen :-D
Packing to move
We moved out of our house in March and in with Nanny and Grandad. No one was happy about that but it was necessary in order to allow the central heating of the new house to be entirely replaced. You certainly bonded with Nanny during that period, in fact I think at one point you started to think SHE was your Mummy - your sister did not take to the upheaval and managed to soak up quite a lot of my time...
I'm sure you'll be just as challenging when you reach her age, so don't go thinking you're the 'good' one just because you're currently a generally agreeable baby - although if you fancy staying agreeable, that would be great :-D
Immunisations
You've had all the usual immunisations, which you don't like and you had no problem letting everyone in a fifty mile radius know it. Good for you! Where does being stalwart get you these days anyway!
'Talking'
You are pretty easy going for the most part (except when hungry) but despite this you feel it necessary to shout and squawk as though you are the most discontented soul ever born. One look at your baby face, all screwed up with mirth, leaves me to conclude that you are not cross, just fond of the sound of your own voice (where did she get that from, I hear you all wonder...)
Laughing
Your silent laugh has been cracking me up for some time - most babies do it, but of coures when your own babies do it, it's so much cuter (sorry, other babies.) We have had a few giggles out of you but more recently you have been attempting proper belly laughs when tickled under the arms and on the thighs, although you laugh most when this tickling is administered with high pitched 'tickle tickle' noises and so I am beginning to suspect its the noise that makes you laugh. You also laugh if some jumps out at you and exclaims: "Boo!"
Holding your head up
Your bobble-headedness is pretty much a thing of the past and you hold your head up like a champ. You have been sitting in your bumbo since you were just shy of 4 months and when held up, you take some weight on your legs - it's all good practice I guess.
You rarely lie back on your bouncy chair but rather struggle upright, hold it as long as you can and then flop in which ever direction seems best to you.
Your big sister
You love your Georgie and I frequently despatch her to distract and delight you, which she does with aplomb, but not always as willingly as I would like.
She likes to try to pick you up, which is a bit of a worry, and she likes to try to feed you - yes, as soon as you were four months I decided to ignore contemporary advice (like almost everyone else I know) and start weaning you.
Weaning
You took to food in such a way as to confirm (as if I ever had any doubts) that you are indeed the child of Steve and Ali Harris. Well done.
Now you yell for food like an angry Millwall fan, and once it hits your tongue you smile and flirt like a young coquette, bless you.
Sleep
Yes, you do that - we've gone from a three hour routine to a four hour routine, which wont mean much to anyone who either has no children or who has blocked out the painful routines of babyhood, but you have, so there. So yes, not going through the night yet but Steve and I take it in turns to be on kid duty and so far so good.
You are a small, soft, adorable little person whose irrepressible gaiety and curiosity rarely fail to cheer me up, even when I feel like I'm at the end of my tether! You complete our family, to the point that it's hard to remember that you are a pretty recent addition. I love you, cuddlesome naughty pants.
Sleep well, love from your Mummy xxx
If you'd like to know what your sister was like at this age - 3 months, 4 months
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