Brooke was born 12 weeks ago today, on January 1st she'll officially be three months old. Seems like she has grown so much over the past 12 weeks ... and so have we! Last night was a huge milestone - Brooke slept for 9 HOURS. I'm thinking its a fluke because its so out of the ordinary, but I'll take a fluke like that anyday.
Babycenter suggests that we start reading to Brooke, because her ear for the spoken language improves by hearing us speak.
They also talk alot about hands this week - which is Brookes primary focus lately. She stares at them, licks them, sucks them ... basically everything is about her hands! Occasionally she has been able to grab and object with her hands and try to pull it into her mouth. Watching her concentrate on such an activity is both amazing and hysterical and gives us hours of fun :)
Socially she is developing too - becoming quite the "conversationalist". She will coo and gurgle (when in a good mood) in response to us, and stick out her tounge when we do the same to her. Her noises have begun to sound more like words, and we swear she can already say "Hi", "Yeah" and "No". While it will be quite a while before Brooke is putting words together to make small sentences, talking actually isnt too far around the corner. Between the ages of 4 and 5 months babies start to use simple words like "mama" and "dada"!
