Katharine Lange: Arwyn Week 21: Rolling From Back to Belly!

Big news for Arwyn; she had her first roll over (from back to belly) this week! She also showed us how smart and courteous she is by doing her first roll over while we were on a FaceTime call with Daddy, who was out of town, so he wouldn't have to miss the excitement. She proceeded to do it a total of 3 times during that first day, and continues to practice it most days. Arwyn also started sleeping really badly this week, which was very disappointing. My first thought was that it was a growth spurt, which does happen at 4 months, and shows up as increased sleep (which did happen, she slept 14 hours straight one day), and increased eating (which also happened because she then started waking up more at night and needing to eat). However, when things didn't normalize as fast as my sleep experts said they would, I thought it might be the 4 month sleep regression, because she was so good at putting herself to sleep at the start and back to sleep in the middle, but all of a sudden I couldn't get her to sleep without lots of rocking and cuddling, and we had many missed naps and night wake ups when she wasn't actually hungry. Then she got really sick with a fever and congestion, so I thought that might be contributing to the problems too. All in all, I'm sure it's a combo of all three, and it's leading to one exhausted mama! Hopefully she gets well soon.

Grandma and MumMum arrived this week to help take care of Leia and Arwyn, and boy was she glad to see them. As was I! After a few more days of Josh being gone, Leia has gotten really clingy and needy and whiney, so being solo with 2 kids was much harder. I was so glad for the reinforcements. We all took her to a make-up gymnastics class on Thursday, and it was really fun. Normally the gym class comes to her school, but for the make-up we went to the gym, and they had big trampolines, ball pits, pommel horses, and all sorts of other fun stuff. And then MumMum bought her a shiny new leotard, which she wouldn't take off or put clothes over despite the cold temps for the next several days. Cousin Emmett is getting better and better at walking, and is now up to the task of being Leia's little playmate, which is just going to get more and more fun for both of them. Yay for cousins!

90 deg rolls in preparation for the full 180 soon to come!

Definitely her favorite rattle; and apparently she looks good in zebra stripes...who knew?!

So many interesting things to look at in this world!

Despite this being Sister Arwyn, as opposed to the other three doll Arwyns, she is definitely Leia's little doll, or rather BIG doll!

Come on Mom, help me out, it's gotten a bit cramped in here!

Building up momentum to make it over the top...

Taking a little rest half way with her eye on the prize...

And she's over!

Ok, now I can reach that toy, but this bottom arm is stuck, and shoot, I really hate this tummy position...why did I do this again??

Making the most of her success and a "bad" situation!

Arwyn's new favorite activity, snuggling with MumMum and zoning out on her face...she looks so relaxed and comfortable that you think she's fast asleep, but when you take a closer look, she's wide awake and staring intensely!