Alana - 3.5 months

Alana has been doing so many new things lately.  She recently found her hands.  She is fascinated by them!  She puts her hands in a fist and stares at them.  Sometimes, she chews on them.  If she feels nice, she offers me some of her slobbery hand.  She tries to suck on her thumb, but she doesn't know how to do that yet.

She has also started to talk a lot more now.  She does funny sounds and long sentences.  She laughs at us when we imitate her.  Well, she would laugh if she knew how to.

Lately, she has also been trying to sit up.  When we prop her on our laps, she uses her stomach muscles and sits herself up.  She's not stable yet though, and she flops forward once she gets up too far.

We finally started to make her sleep in her crib.  She sleeps in her crib fine so far, but I still end up having to let her sleep with us when it gets to 3 or 4 in the morning and she won't go back to sleep.