Avery's developmental update - 6 weeks

Avery is growing up so fast! Here is a list of her wicked awesome skills so far:

• Pooping violently and being really smelly afterwards
• Smiling socially!
• Holding her legs straight at a 45 degree angle while lying on her back
• Lifting her head while on her tummy
• Responding vocally to us sometimes
• Rotating her head from one side to the other - once she gets going with this back and forth, it is almost as if she can't stop :)
• High pitched shrieking
• Eating voraciously
• Not spitting up very much
• Staying awake for 5 hours at a time - she is the most alert baby ever! (Don't worry I try to prevent this, and she doesn't do it very often)
• Growing rolls of fat - most prominent in her double chin and and very upper thighs :)
• Peeing in a stream that arcs away from landing on the second diaper we put under her while we change her
• Getting people to tell her she is beautiful
• Melting her parents' hearts

Some preferences she has made perfectly clear include:

• When she is upset, constant movement calms her down or
• Being up on someone's shoulder is her favorite
• Freedom to kick her legs like an Irish dancer - she won't tolerate any restriction of movement from clothing or blankets on her legs
• She doesn't like to cuddle in a sideways position against your chest like most babies do

Random facts:

• Her hands smell like sour milk pretty much all the time
• It is practically impossible to clean in her neck folds
• She always has lint in her toes
• Her hands and feet are clammy
• Her skin is SO soft - my favorite thing to do is squeeze her fat silky thighs :)

We feel so lucky because she is such a good baby! She has quite a calm disposition most of the time - I was hoping she would get that from Brad, and I think she might have - fingers crossed that it continues that way!