Another snow day

So more pics of the Bean!

With Granny, laughing and eating:




Those big blue eyes, ever-alert and taking it all in:

In the carrier

She's got hands

So now she's got hands. Or she always did, but now she knows she's got them and she definitely wants to use them. If a toy or our hands are held in front of her, she reaches for them (in her disjointed way), grabs hold, and gives a smile. She particularly loves grabbing mom's shirt while being fed.

We got a new baby carrier, too. We were using an older Bjorn, but it was hard to get her in and out and even harder to adjust it to fit me or Jenny, depending on the user. Since she was enjoying the Bjorn so much, we decided to get a newer, more adjustable, and more comfortable carrier. The choices were many and most were expensive... we went with the Lascal M1 (no pics with her in it yet, but here it is).
On saturday morning, it was really warm here (+5C), so I strapped her in and took her down to Local Jo's coffee shop. It was an unqualified success. She loved it. She's really going to enjoy going for walks in this thing when the weather turns warmer.

"Zzzzzzzz":


I tried to grade some tests:


In her nightie:

Smiley baby:

Playing with Grampy:


In this video, she practices one of her new skills. She likes to grab hold of my hands and then pull herself towards me. Here it is:

Three months old today

...where does the time go?

Weekends with Catherine

It's dad's turn to get in on the action. Here's what went down this weekend:

On saturday, Ellie watched some hockey with me.


On sunday morning, we woke the baby up and played with her. First, it was almost-tummy time.


Then it was for-real tummy time. She doesn't like this as much.


Maybe you'd rather read a book?



"But dad, I'm hungry!"


"Actually, I think I'd prefer to see what's going on over here."


Ellie had to crash out from all the action. Notice how she's sleeping like an actual human - head on pillow, remote within reach.



And the highlight of every day with Catherine is getting her out of bed in the morning.

Daytime sleep training

Quickly:

things are good here.

Bean continues to learn about her hands. She can kinda-sorta reach for stuff, but doesn't really know what she's doing yet. Her grip is good, though.

Jenny's big focus right now is daytime nap training. Bean likes to be bounced to sleep but as she's getting heavier (or Jenny's getting weaker) this is wearing mom out. So the short-term goal is more napping on her own, and longer naps of more quality.

Night sleeping continues to go well. She's pretty much a 6pm to 6am girl with a couple of wakups in between. Consequently, I don't see her much in the evenings but the mornings rock. She wakes up and just lies in bed, cooing and gurgling, playing her own little games. Then we when go in to say hello, we get ear-to-ear smiles. Good times.

Now on to the pics:

Sing-a-long time

The new thing for CC now is singing along with mom.

When Jenny gets her ready for bed and sings in her ear, bean grunts, groans, and coos right along with the song.

Wicked.

And if you listen hard enough to the video, you'll hear Ellie and Rex wrestling.

Sorry about the poor quality.