Baby J turns 16 weeks today!

Gosh, has it really been 4 months already?

Baby J - known affectionately as Little Piglet and The Noisy One - is doing well. By which I mean her night feeds have gone beyond 2x a night to 3 or 4, partly because she now likes to snack instead of having a long feed.

She loves being upright so she can look around, and will squirm and wriggle if carried in a lying-down position (unlike Beth when she was little). She's also wiseing up to how to manipulate Mum and Dad and will fuss ("eh! eh! eh!" + pitifully scrunched up face) if left on her own for what she considers an unacceptably long period (15 mins).

For the past 2 weeks, she has been going to sleep face down. Now, we know what the advice on SIDS is. Here especially, the nurses are very careful to dispense the usual pointers on putting babies to bed on their backs to reduce the incidence of SIDS. But what do you do if your baby keeps flipping on to her tummy because she's more comfy lying face down? I reckon she knows what she likes best, so I manage the risk by checking in on her frequently to see her nose is not squashed and that she's still breathing.

Baby J simply adores her big sis. The minute Beth steps into the room, J's face lights up and you can feel her unspoken delight at being near this wonderful little person who can do so many exciting things that she's probably impatient to mimic - ride a bike, eat on her own, dress herself, walk to kinder, choose her own library books...

Speaking of bikes, we recently got Beth a pink kiddy bike from Big W and CA finished fixing it up last night. We'll have to take it to the petrol station to get the tyres pumped and then it will be all good to go. Beth has been practising inside the house (with training wheels) and the pride and joy on her face is just wonderful to see. Soon, she'll be able to join her pals Danae and Charli cycling up and down the street. She's the youngest in the group and until now, the only one without a bike, so she's been feeling a bit left out of things.

The momentum in Chinese class has been heating up. There was a change of teachers, the principal took over Beth's class and now they have....homework! And here I thought we'd moved to Oz for a slower academic pace. :-p