6 week old baby Tessa

Tessa has been changing and growing so much lately that I thought I better post an update on how she is doing.

Appearance:
Already my little girl is feeling like my big little girl. She has grown SO much in these past few weeks. She has moved up from newborn clothes to 0-3 month clothes and from newborn diapers to size 1. She weighs about 9 pounds and seems to have gained a few inches atleast. Here are some recent pictures so you can see how much she has grown.

Personality:
She is also growing more independent. There are times now that she prefers to look out at the world instead being cuddled up with me. I feel like I understand the phrase "they grow up so fast" so much better now.

Then also sometimes she doesn't want to be held at all and is happier kicking her legs in her play gym.

Likes:
She still likes to be held and rocked to sleep though we have been working on having her fall asleep on her own with some limited success. Though she hates the baby bjorn, we have found that she loves her sling, which makes carting her around easy and I enjoy the cuddle time.

Dislikes:
She does not enjoy getting the hiccups which is unfortunate since she gets them at least 3 times a day. The baby books that say babies don't mind or even notice the hiccups obviously have not met Tessa. Her absolute least favorite thing though is probably getting meal-time interrupted for burping. It's very necessary though to avoid fountains of spit up.

New developments:
She's started smiling more and I think they are intentional smiles now. She has also started experimenting with making sounds. She can make the sounds "gah" and "kah" and seems to enjoy "talking" with mom and dad. Also, her neck muscles have been strengthening a lot lately. Here she is showing them off.