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15.1.08

fifteen weeks

you've been eating bottles again. You've been hanging out with the babysitter and i think you like her: she's very nice. And the baby we're going to be sharing her with absolutely loves her, which would be reassuring if we needed reassuring.

And, you're, what, three and a half months old, so of course everything that is "size three months" is just exactly too small, pinching your toes in at the ends of the footie pajamas, and i think you've got my toes, so they aren't going to want any excess pinching.

Along with growing out of clothes, you're about to grow out of your small-baby-sized diaper covers. so i got some larger ones. and M wanted to try out some other diapers, and other kinds of diaper covers, and we'll see how they work. I think some of the new diapers may have to go through the wash a couple times before they get to be absorbent. maybe it will be better? i think cloth diapers are pretty much cloth diapers, so i don't know what he's hoping for. Also we got a couple of very fancy fitteds, with their own inserts and everything, and they are fantastic for nights, but take for ever to dry after doing laundry. For ever.

And this morning? This morning we went SWIMMING. And you loved it - you had an attack of the giggles in the pool. And of the million and twelve babies that were there (okay, maybe forty) you were the cutest one. We didn't put your face in the water, but your ears got in, and all the other parts of you. And you swam on your front and on your back and we discovered that simultaneously swimming and gnawing on Mama's finger is so much fun! You made many gleeful faces and it is a new goal of mine, as of this moment, to go swimming with M and the underwater camera box and someday, sweetheart, someday.

We've also been getting a bit more of a morning routine: M wakes you up after walking the dogs, and we chat and cuddle and you nurse and there is Mama Is A Jungle Gym time, and standing up is still the most fun and entertaining thing ever. Sometimes you let one arm go slack and hang from the other one like a monkey.

You're also becoming noticeably more aware of the world - just in time for me to rearrange the apartment furniture again, natch. It started when you were in the Ergo and i was in the grocery store and you woke up and there were all these cans! oh, packaging. You were looking and looking, and the nicest checkout lady, the grandmotherly one, you chatted with her for a moment. You've also had quiet-alert times in the stroller. I have to figure out, then, how to un-recline the thing so you can sit up and see the world.

Labels: baby, milestones

scrawled @ 15:54