Growing Pains

Little gal is almost 4 months old and is definitely going through some big changes.  While at first I thought these developments were so exciting and cool...now I'm kind of saying...God help us all!!!  Starting the teething process, learning new skills, and doing the typical 4 month growth spurt is a lot for a sweet baby to handle.  A lot for mom and dad, too :-) 

 Since having Harper, I have done my fair share of reading about baby development.  One of the things I keep coming across is that when baby learns a new skill, they want to continuously practice it...unfortunately, this practice includes the wee hours of the night.  Obviously, we've experienced this 'phenomenon' firsthand now! 

Since learning to roll over, Harper is obsessed with this new feeling.  Great!  BUT, she only rolls one way right now.  Uh oh!  She rolls from her back to her tummy and gets stuck.  During the day, it's no problem.  I let her fuss around and try to figure out how to roll BACK over.  She's done it a couple of times, but it hasn't really stuck with her yet.  So, to our dismay, she rolls over during the night, gets stuck, and cries.  Right now, this is happening about every 2 hours.  And she thinks this rolling over thing is soooo fun, so usually it's quite the chore to get her back to sleep!  It's so cute when she's laughing and squealing about how awesome she is because she just rolled over-again!-just not so much at 11pm, 1am, 3am, and 5am.  Ugh.....reallllly can't wait for her to figure out how to roll from tummy to back.  I think I can say Josh and I are BOTH desperate for a solid night's sleep.  For a time, Harper was sleeping until about 5-5:30am every day.  That's early.  But holy moly, do I miss THOSE days!  Come back to me 5am waking time!  I miss you!  If only baby girl missed you as much as I do...at least my little roly poly is a cute little stinker!!