Klara is 7 weeks old today and she has recently arrived at a major developmental milestone: she now has a night-time routine. She now knows the difference between day and night and seriously objects to lights being on at night-time. She also sleeps 4,5-5 hours straight during the night, which doesn’t yet happen during the day. Klara even looks like a person who is aware that nights are for sleeping.
In this entire time, she only cried at night on a single occasion, and I have no idea what the reason was. When she wakes up at night, Klara doesn’t cry. She grunts and moves around to let me know she’s awake and needs to be fed.
She doesn’t recognize us yet, though. Or maybe she does but prefers to act like that boy in the old joke whom his parents considered mute until, at the age of 15, he suddenly said at breakfast,
“Coffee is tepid today.”
“Oh God, son, you speak!” the happy parents exclaimed. “Why haven’t you said anything until now?”
“The coffee hasn’t been tepid until now,” the son explained.
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