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Catherine rolled from her back to her tummy for the first time yesterday, which just happened to be her 16 week birthday. I was changing Caroline's diaper, and Catherine was on the play gym mat when she started to fuss. I looked over and she was on her tummy, but with her right arm stuck under her, which was making her mad. She freed her arm just as Caroline and I came over, and looked around with a big smile. Then she rolled right back onto her back. This was actually the first time she had rolled either direction. I had expected the back to tummy roll to come soon, as she has been rolling on her side quite a bit over past couple of weeks. And this week, she has been trying to roll onto her tummy in her crib when I put her to bed at night (I can see her one the video monitor). It has really disturbed her sleep for the first couple of hours of the night.
I looked at Caroline's baby book to see when she rolled. She went tummy to back at 7 weeks and then back to tummy at 14 weeks, so a little earlier than Catherine. I think one of the reasons Catherine rolled later is that she has not had as much floor time. With Caroline running and jumping all over the place, I have been less inclined to put Catherine on the floor out of fear of her being trampled by her sister.

A few other things of note about Catherine:
- She is sleeping from around 8 pm to 5 am with just a few wakings to give her her paci. She nurses around 5 and then goes back to sleep until 7:30- ish (most of the time, though, it takes her a good while to go back to sleep)
- I think she has a clogged tear duct in her left eye. It is producing lots of yellow-green goop on a daily basis. I did speak to a nurse about it and she said the tear duct was the likely problem. The eye itself is fine-- no redness and it doesn't seem to bother her. We go for her 4 month appt. in a couple of week and will have it checked out then.
- Took her for her 3 months photos and it went great. She was her usual smiley self and we got some great pictures. We finished in 30 minutes because she did so well!
- She has started grabbing at objects within her reach, like the turtle that hangs on her bouncy seat and at the mylar balloons form Caroline's birthday that she loves to look at.