Thursday, August 14, 2008

Holding her toy elephant on her own...



...and chatting away to the elephant, too. She's getting so much better every day at grabbing and holding things.  She had a good grip on a chunk of my hair today.  She also petted my face and hooked a finger onto my lip while I was changing her into her pajamas tonight.  Here's some pictures of her playing with her elephant, a popular toy in our living room lately.  

Fireball!


Bob called this her fireball outfit.  She's talking a lot.  Chatting away while I snapped these shots.

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Play date




Well, Juniper is a little young yet for a play date, but she did hang out with 14 month old Lucas on Tuesday at his house. He was interested in playing with Juniper's rattle and took it right out of her hand. She didn't mind, and I think by watching him play with it she learned how to hold it better herself.

Her forearm fits in my palm


Separate sleep



Juni is 15 weeks old today.  Last night for the first time she slept with her bassinet disconnected from our bed.  We raised the side bar of the co-sleeper bassinet and moved it to the corner near the foot of our bed.  We put the rocking chair in the spot where the bassinet used to be.  Last night went well.  When she woke up to eat I fed her and burped her while sitting in the rocking chair, and then she went back to sleep easily and stayed asleep when I put her back in the bassinet.  And she was sleeping unswaddled in a sleep sack.  

Previously I had been feeding her at night in a side-lying position in bed, so that I could partially sleep through it.  However, lately neither of us would be able to go into a very deep sleep, and then when I'd finally wake up enough to move her back to her bassinet, often I would wake her up in the transfer.  It wasn't working out that way any more (when she was younger she slept through the transfer better), and also I wasn't burping her since I fell asleep while she ate.  Now I am forced to get out of bed to get her.  The whole process of feeding her, burping and putting her back in her bassinet takes only 20 minutes.  She's been waking up twice a night, and last night she woke up at about 2:30 am and 5 am.  When she woke up for the day at about 7 or 7:30 am, she was happily chatting to her crib toy (a friendly bee).  So I was able to lay in bed a bit longer while she talked with her friend the bee.  Bob enjoyed seeing her so happy and just talking on and on.