Sleeping Through the Night?

You slept so long last night that I woke up concerned at 5:11 this morning. Have we turned over a new leaf? Have we officially started the big "Sleeping Through the Night?" I guess we'll find out tonight if it was a fluke or not. All I know is that your father was very happy you did that - he got out of the "crappy" feeding you usually have at 3:45 every morning. You slept until 7:15 this morning. How exciting!

You've been a whole different baby personality-wise the last week or so. You've started licking things: your lips, the Baby Bjorn, your rattle. You have also been talking to anything out there that will listen! You babble incessantly in the carrier, on the changing table, and at night you are a chatty Cathy! We must be hearing about your day and all your interests so far, but I have yet to decipher the foreign language known as "baby-ese."

Your curiosity seems to know no bounds. We see you staring at everything around you - especially on walks. You love to look at the light coming through the trees and at the different people who pass us by on the sidewalk. You are mesmerized by your toys: that little caterpillar rattle is your best friend. You grab at it and stare like it's the awesomest thing in the world. You are entertained forever with it.

You are waking up from your midmorning nap. You have that nap and a small midafternoon nap. Occasionally, you cat nap around 6pm at night.

I guess we'll see what tonight brings us... hopefully another "Sleep Through the Night!"

The Barrel Rocker

I looked at the little barrel rocker last night that my Grampie made for me when I was a baby. The craftsmanship is amazing. Dark wood cask shaped into a little chair perfect for little bottoms. I'm going to take pictures of you in it, getting bigger and bigger as each week passes.

I can't believe how big you've already gotten. I call you "My Little Munchkin," but you are so much bigger than you were 11 weeks ago when we brought you home from the hospital. It's still hard for me to grasp that you are here; I keep thinking I'll wake up from this fantasy(which is admittedly rather less fantasy and more torture at times), and you'll still be in my belly, kicking and hiccuping away.

It brought tears to my eyes this weekend - you rolled over! You pushed off of your little belly and got to your side. Then, kicking and grunting and a little bit of screeching, you knocked yourself onto your back. Daddy got to see it because I yelled for him to come right away and just as he got in the room, you did it.

As Autumn starts to creep in, with the leaves changing on a few different trees around us, I look forward to all these little milestones you are going to accomplish with the slight tinge of regret. I'm going to hold you as much as I can now, because you are already showing us that you are growing up so fast.

You're becoming such a big girl already. I hope I'm ready for it.

2 Month Vaccination Day

The Pediatrician visit actually went really well; Claire was really in a good mood and handled all the poking and prodding. We asked about the red spot. It's a hemangioma, and it'll get a little bigger, but hopefully go away by age 3. Here are the stats:

Weight: 11 lbs, 8 oz - 75th percentile (woot)
Length: 23 3/4 inches - 90th percentile (wow!)

I've got a big baby girl! We're so happy with it! Bryce had to be reassured: she is not being overfed. It's okay that her rolls have rolls!

The shots were less than fun, but actually it was pretty funny in a sick humor kind of way. Claire was just burbling along, took the oral rotavirus and attempted to spit some out, but most of it went in. She was just staring around and then "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!" Her face was all screwed up and purple. The shots took all of one second because the nurse was so fast, but, man, Claire let the world know she was p-i-s-s-e-d. It was pretty hilarious the change from content baby to freaked out and angry at the world baby. I couldn't stop giggling. And once she had her bottle, she didn't care, either.

She was pretty fussy the rest of the day, but we just gave her oral Infant Tylenol and she slept fitfully that afternoon. Wouldn't let us put her down at all until bedtime that night.