Behold, the incredible expanding baby:
The “Smart Cookie” onesie she’s wearing was also featured in the Week 4 picture, and now, it basically doesn’t fit her any more (it’s not fully buttoned under the blanket). We’ve already had to retire a couple of boxes of little-baby clothes, and she never did get to wear some of her newborn-sized outfits.
There are definite advances in other areas, too. She’s awake and alert for longer periods, now (as you can see in the picture), and somewhat more frequently. She’s also greatly expanded the range of little baby noises she makes, to include a bunch of cute cooing and gurgling noises between “sleeping” and “shrieking.”
She still has some problems with gas/colic, but there’s been a little less of that the last few days, which is great. I hope it’s a pattern and not an aberration. Her feeding pattern is still not terribly regular, at least on paper. I’ll update the graph this weekend, and we’ll see if it provides any insight.
I think getting rid of things the little grew out of before even wearing is common among many parents. We ckeaned out a bunch of stuff for a yard sale in May, since our sone was 3 1/2 and his sister was just turned 1. We got rid of all the boy stuff 2T and under, and most of the infant girl stuff. It took about 4 times longer to sort and price everything because A)we had to wait until they were asleep, and B)we had to stop every few minutes and say, “Remember him in this his first Christmas” or “Man, that’s so cute and she never even wore it-the tags are still on!”
My father died in November 2004 when our son was about 2 months old. My dad had been in Argentina when he got sick, and had bought a T-shirt for his grandson before he came back to the States. Unfortunately it was a 4T, so a little big at the time. He has since outgrown it, without ever putting it on. It’s fairly gender-neutral, so we’ll try to get her in it in a few years, but that one goes in the “keep even though too small” pile either way.