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Baby Becca: Month 4

By Andrea

Dear Becca,

Guess what? You're still a great baby. You sleep well, eat quickly, and love books with things to touch and toys that are easy to grab and shove toward your mouth. You love Mommy and Daddy too, which is easy to see. When someone else is holding you and I walk back toward you, you smile when you catch sight of me. Wednesday Daddy came home late, right at your bedtime, and when he walked in the door you were so delighted to see him that you laughed. That was a really wonderful moment.

After that single roll-over you did from front to back last month, you decided that direction was silly and never did it again. Instead, you've mastered rolling over from back to front - although I have to admit I enjoyed when you would roll 3/4 of the way and get stuck with your arm under you. Now I put you down on your blanket, and if I walk away and come back, half the time you're wiggling on your tummy and starting to get mad that you can't get back to where you were. You'll learn soon.

We have a nighttime song for you, which you enjoy kicking your feet to while we change you for bed. It goes like this:

Oh I'm a naked Becca baby
A Becca baby yes am I
A genuine daughter of my daddy Dan
Born on the 15th of Jan
I've got a very naked booty
Which I like to roll and twirl
Oh, Becca baby went to bed
Wearing comfy PJs
I am that Becca baby girl!

You and are are making an unexpected trip to California next week for a sad reason: someone special died, and after missing my grandpa's funeral a couple years ago I didn't want to be away from my family - and yours - again. It's not a happy occasion, but you're going to get to meet everyone before I thought you could, which is a nice thing. What good is having extra money if you can't use it to be with your family, I said? And Daddy agreed. Family comes first.

Love,
Mommy

Full post as published by Peanut Butter Burrito on May 17, 2008 (boomark / email).