Touchdown vs. the Mummy

Hi Sidra,
Well today I will tell you about a couple of your favorite positions. The Touchdown is your favorite. Since the day you were born, you've liked to lie on your back with both arms up like you are signaling a touchdown. You see here in the picture. The first one I took a few minutes ago, the other one was taken in the hospital when you were about 2 days old.
Another favorite position of your mom and I is the Mummy. When we've fed you at about midnight or so, we would like you to sleep for about 4 or 5 hours if possible. So what we do is wrap you up really tight in some blankets. For you, it is like being in a straight jacket. Your arms are down at your sides ( which is not like the touchdown position you like) and we wrap you like a burrito. The idea is that you will feel snug as you might have felt in your mom's uterus before you were born. It does seem to work. You sometimes fight it for a while, and we rock you to sleep. But if we can get you to sleep that way, you will usually sleep for quite a while so we can get some rest.
I also need to tell you that I did feed you two days ago. Your mom pumped some of her milk, and while she was out doing some errands, I fed you her milk from a bottle. It was pretty cool. You were staring at me the whole time, and you sucked it down quick. We won't do that very often, because we want you to feed from her breast mostly, and for you, using the bottle is a lot easier. You don't have to suck as hard on the bottle. Still, I look forward to doing it again soon.
I should tell you what you are doing these days, too. In the last couple of days, you are studying the little toys that hang on the diaper changing table really closely. You are even reaching out and hitting them with your hand. For quite a while I thought that you were hitting them randomly because you were swinging your arms around and you were close enough to touch them. Now I think you are doing it on purpose. Last night you sort of laughed as you were banging them.
We've been trying to keep track of your growth, as best we can. Our scale might not be accurate enough to really weigh you, but we think you are about 9 pounds now. And we measured your head, which seems to be pretty big for a girl your age. The important thing is that it is bigger now than when you were at the doctor's a couple weeks ago. So you are growing. Your weight gain is supposed to be the fastest now, while you are under 6 months old, than any other time in your life.
Another cool thing that happened is that we saw another girl about your age the other night. The first thing was that you were much bigger than her. You looked like a linebacker, she looked like a place kicker.
I was really stunned when the other girl cried. I had been holding you as you were getting hungry and fussing a little and crying yourself some. When the other girl, Grace, cried the first time, you immediately reacted to it. Like, hey, there's another baby here. It was cool.
Well, you are going to wake up hungry pretty soon, and you will probably need a diaper change, so I better wrap this up.
Love you more everyday.......
aba