L M N O Please Stop Crying

I know that every baby grows and learns at their own pace but I get concerned that Harper is behind because she hasn’t rolled over yet. She’s almost 4 ½ months old. I’ve read that babies start rolling over between 3-6 months, but when I see on Facebook that babies younger than Harper are already rolling over this mommy starts to freak out.

To combat this, Hubs and I have started doing daily tummy time with Harper…something we should be doing anyway. She hated it when she was 1-2 months old so we stopped for awhile. Now she can hold her own for about 10 minutes before she has had enough. During tummy time we try to encourage her to roll over by putting toys on one side that she would need to roll over to reach or we even push a leg over to show her how to roll over. Both haven’t gotten us anywhere and so we continue to wait for her to learn at her own pace like good parents do.

Something on a similar note. I get worried that we aren’t socializing enough or teaching Harper enough and she will be behind.  The logical side of me says this is plain silly, but the worrywart side of me tells me to fix this ASAP.  I’m surprised nightmares of Harper being behind haven’t taken over the “I forgot my locker combination and my class schedule” dreams that still haunt me at night.  So to put myself at ease I started singing to Harper. I decided the ABCs was the perfect song choice since it’s educational and I know all the words. :) Most of the time Hubs is around and chimes in with me. We have discovered that the ABCs ARE MAGICAL. She loves it when we sing this to her. If she is in a good mood, she laughs and smiles and coos along. If she is in a bad mood, she stops crying and listens to us sing.

We probably went through 10 rounds of the ABCs on the 10 minute trip home last night just to keep Harper from crying. I will do anything to make my baby happy, even if it is singing the same song over and over and out of key in public.

PS--I know it is cute when kids say elemeno instead of  L M N O, but I obnoxiously enunciate these letters to prevent Harper from what-being cute???  I hope the real reason is to prevent future turmoil of having to rid her of the elemeno habit.Something is wrong with me.

PICTURE TIME!
Quote from picture: "But Mom, I don't want this toy to go to my cousin for Christmas. I really like it as a pillow."

Soooo all the people that read this blog get a sneakpeek at our family photos that I took. Yes, I'm that talented with a camera timer. ;) I won't be posting these until this weekend. So you should feel special. The rest are ten times better than this one so keep a look out!