ailbhe | 12 weeks

Emer is 12 weeks old. She's chubby in all the right places. She has prolonged periods of attentive wakefulness. She generally doesn't need to be held when she's awake but she likes it; she doesn't mind being put down when asleep at all anymore. She often sleeps a 6-hour stretch and more than one 2-hour stretch. She enjoys sitting upright for brief periods. She's pretty good at sucking her thumb but not always as good as she'd like. She cries before going to sleep almost every naptime; she doesn't take to being nursed to sleep at all. The sling works, but she does cry.

She likes to hold things and really, really loves shaking a rattle and/or dropping something that makes a noise.

She also adores Linnea. Me and Rob too, of course, but there's nothing Emer enjoys more than having Linnea forcibly bundle her up in a fleece blanket and tuck her in enthusiastically before leaning her huge toddler head on her tiny baby face and yelling "All nice and cosy now! Now Emer can go asleep!" or similar.