I'm continuously amazed at the changes that happen from week to week with Piper.
It is awesome to reflect, just on the last three months, at the baby who spent most of her time sleeping, sometimes even while eating, and now - the baby that spends a great deal of time awake and hanging out with people.
Piper is a bit over 12 weeks old right now, and its really awesome. She slept through most of the night recently, sleeping fully from midnight to 6am, which is a first for her. Krissi and I have moved back to the bed, and have been putting her down in her crib in the nursery. She still sometimes ends up in bed with us in the morning after an early morning feeding, but I'm totally okay with that.
She is the smilingest and laughingest baby in the world. (Though to give a little credit where credit is due, Maddie & John's babies are awfully smiling and laughing too). Piper is super awake and cheerful, and super morning-person. When she wakes up she's all smiles and grins and laughs.
The first time that my daughter broke my heart was when she laughed while I was singing They Might Be Giants, a few weeks ago. Guys, I nearly cried. It was just SO. AMAZING.
Krissi and I did a bit of shopping over the weekend, along with Piper. In addition to replacing a refrigerator that has been slowly dying, we bought an Excersaucer - which is a baby activity center that they sit in, and has a plastic saucer built onto the bottom of it. She's just a bit early for it - she's on the cusp of being able to grab toys and such. As is, she focuses and follows things, and loves bright lights, music, motion, colors, etc. She'll grab onto things, but somewhat inadvertently, she doesn't reach out for things yet, instead, she sometimes grabs something while flailing about, and then holds it firmly, then drops it randomly, later.
And now, a terrible movie is on on Comedy Central, and it is distracting me.
Next up, abstinence and sexuality, my obsessing, WAY ahead of time.
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Monday, June 8, 2009
Fast approaching ten weeks!
Time flies when you're having fun.
Piper will be ten weeks old this coming Friday.
I'm going to start sounding like a broken record, everything is going really well. She's still developing, getting more and more aware of and interested in things around here, and more sociable. She loves the changing table, and we can spend ten minutes on it just hanging out with someone, laughing and cutting up. She likes her activity mat, but even more than that, she likes the mobile in her crib, which rotates. She's a big fan of the bright orange monkey on the mobile, but also the yellow giraffe on her activity mat.
She's getting stronger. Her head is still sorta wobbly, but she is able to lift it and look around when she's lying on her stomach. Last night I was holding her in my lap, with her on her back and reclined at about a 45 degree angle, when she started working on stomach crunches, trying to get her head and neck and even shoulders up. She's getting there.
She enjoys bath time. She hangs out and looks around and tries to stick her fist in her mouth. But seems to be having a good time.
Evenings are tough for us, and by us, I mean all of us. She gets cranky, and Krissi and I get frustrated. Some evenings are better than others, but usually around 6PM, she decides that nothing is good enough, and will cry. The only two things that somewhat reliably work are putting her on a breast - a bottle won't do, or walking around holding her - standing or sitting won't do. But if we can all survive until 9 or 10PM, we're good, and she'll usually go to sleep, and we can all settle down. She'll wake up around 1 to eat, and get changed if necessary, and then again around 4. So she's relatively consistent at night about a 3 hour feeding schedule.
Krissi is still breast feeding, and also pumping and storing. She's eating directly from the breast about 70% of the time, and we're warming up breast milk in a bottle the rest of the time. This feeding routine has a couple of odd quirks. It seems that Piper will eat more via a bottle than she will via the breast. She'll suck down three or even four ounces, easy, from a bottle. But on the breast, she'll work at it and then nap or just stop. Of course, then she's crying ten minutes later because she's still hungry, and we either have to give her a bottle, or put her back on the breast. On the other hand, nothing quiets her down like the breast. She'll scream right into the nipple on a bottle, while she'll settle down with the breast and eat some, then drift off, usually.
Oh - her favorite, even more than the activity mat and the crib mobile: the ceiling fan in the living room. Yeah, no I'm not kidding. She'll lay in someone's arms and stare up at the ceiling fan like it's the coolest thing in the world. The other day she twisted her whole head and neck around when I was holding her, so that she'd be able to see her friend, the ceiling fan. We think its pretty funny.
That's about it, that I can think of right now. See you in a week or two!
Piper will be ten weeks old this coming Friday.
I'm going to start sounding like a broken record, everything is going really well. She's still developing, getting more and more aware of and interested in things around here, and more sociable. She loves the changing table, and we can spend ten minutes on it just hanging out with someone, laughing and cutting up. She likes her activity mat, but even more than that, she likes the mobile in her crib, which rotates. She's a big fan of the bright orange monkey on the mobile, but also the yellow giraffe on her activity mat.
She's getting stronger. Her head is still sorta wobbly, but she is able to lift it and look around when she's lying on her stomach. Last night I was holding her in my lap, with her on her back and reclined at about a 45 degree angle, when she started working on stomach crunches, trying to get her head and neck and even shoulders up. She's getting there.
She enjoys bath time. She hangs out and looks around and tries to stick her fist in her mouth. But seems to be having a good time.
Evenings are tough for us, and by us, I mean all of us. She gets cranky, and Krissi and I get frustrated. Some evenings are better than others, but usually around 6PM, she decides that nothing is good enough, and will cry. The only two things that somewhat reliably work are putting her on a breast - a bottle won't do, or walking around holding her - standing or sitting won't do. But if we can all survive until 9 or 10PM, we're good, and she'll usually go to sleep, and we can all settle down. She'll wake up around 1 to eat, and get changed if necessary, and then again around 4. So she's relatively consistent at night about a 3 hour feeding schedule.
Krissi is still breast feeding, and also pumping and storing. She's eating directly from the breast about 70% of the time, and we're warming up breast milk in a bottle the rest of the time. This feeding routine has a couple of odd quirks. It seems that Piper will eat more via a bottle than she will via the breast. She'll suck down three or even four ounces, easy, from a bottle. But on the breast, she'll work at it and then nap or just stop. Of course, then she's crying ten minutes later because she's still hungry, and we either have to give her a bottle, or put her back on the breast. On the other hand, nothing quiets her down like the breast. She'll scream right into the nipple on a bottle, while she'll settle down with the breast and eat some, then drift off, usually.
Oh - her favorite, even more than the activity mat and the crib mobile: the ceiling fan in the living room. Yeah, no I'm not kidding. She'll lay in someone's arms and stare up at the ceiling fan like it's the coolest thing in the world. The other day she twisted her whole head and neck around when I was holding her, so that she'd be able to see her friend, the ceiling fan. We think its pretty funny.
That's about it, that I can think of right now. See you in a week or two!
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