4 months old

Wow it has been so long since I wrote to this blog! I guess I thought now she is here, the journey of IVF and pregnancy could be finished. But now I realise there is still so much to tell as our darling little girl grows, so many moments I want to remember forever, that I have to continue with it.

Jessica is 4 months old now and continues to amaze us every day. She is sitting unaided though only when she doesn’t know she is doing so, therefore putting her down to sit on the floor to play and having her in her highchair is still a little way off – but not much of a way off atall! She seems to have developed her own language which consists of a series of croaks (think that scary sound in ‘The Ring’), raspberries, squeals and ‘aaaaaaaaaaaaaah’. She takes great delight in being answered back and having a ‘conversation’ such as it is. She is going to be a real little talker.

She is becoming such a loving, content, determined little thing. Her personality shines through. When you take her hands she will pull herself up to standing – I swear she would be running and chattering away already if she could. Her face when she does so is full of pride (look at me mummy!) and joy that she has achieved something. My little genius

She’s been sleeping right through from around 10pm to 6am since about 9 weeks now, and once she has a little feed at 6am will go straight back to sleep till about 8am. Though the last few nights she has gone down about 6pm – lets hope it continues as I love her madly, but really treasure some grown up time in the evenings that I just havn’t been getting. That makes me feel horrible to say as I adore her so, and love every mintue with her, but every parent needs grown up time too!

Here are some recent pics of our loving, determined, cheeky little monkey!