Month 3

Again typing on my iPhone so excuse the typos.

After all the hollering and ungodly screaming of the past, month 3 has arrived like a burst of sunlight through black clouds. All the things I couldn't stand before have faded away and for now, there are no more mysteries. She cries when she has a reasonable need and if you predict them and read her body language, the crying ends before it begins. She has cried for a grand total of 20 minutes today. Combined. No more crying just because and screeching because you sat down in a chair. Dixie is now officially my best buddy.

Instead of sitting in the dark being hollered at we now have a lot of fun together. And not just me, daddy too as she is now recognizing faces!  Now when we go on walks she looks around curiously, sometimes babbling and waving her arms around. I can leave her on her floor gym and she is fine playing by herself, no need to be in my arms 24/7. This little lady talks to herself, plays by herself, and gives herself giggling fits with her toys. She babbles to anyone who talks to her. She smiles like an angel when you kiss her on the cheek. She is my best little friend in the whole world now! Her personality is really beginning to develop.

She gets upset if she's ignored, and being asleep next to her should she wake up first counts as ignoring her. She flails her arms around and fusses until you open your eyes, but once she sees you're awake she beams and giggles and never stops smiling. For some reason she especially loves seeing her daddy in the morning, she won't take her eyes off him and her smile never fades.
She loves pushing herself to learn new things. As you can see in her rolling video on Facebook, she tries really hard to master mobility. She strains, she grunts, she furrows her little brows and rocks back and forth. Sometimes she seems so angry that I decide to aid her in flipping back over and she HATES that! It makes her so angry every single time! So although she gets frustrated, I try to not intervene unless she's really upset.
She likes her cats. She loves to watch them and a happy meow in her direction almost always makes her smile. She has responded with some babbling before too.