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April 18, 2007

Four Months

Our little pumpkin is four months old. Four Months is very cute but a bit drooly.


Zoe is renewing the justification for the name "Baroness von Wigglestein". All wiggly, all the time. Sometimes she needs to lay on the floor just so she can flail about. I realized this after we were hanging out at her first LAN party last weekend. I had her on the floor after her diaper change and she started her first real attempt at rolling over. The next day's attempt was a little closer. Monday I gave her another shot and she got almost halfway over when she lost momentum. I tried putting her on her tummy and she promptly rolled over to her back. My days of stepping away from the changing table to grab something are pretty much over. She also loves being lifted up over our heads and we play the Drool Bomber game regularly.

Singing and having little chats are part of every day now. Sometimes the Alphabet Song is met with squeals of laughter. And The Laugh is intoxicating so anything that gets one is repeated several times. Interest in other people is another new feature of Four Months. Yesterday at mom's group Zoe started smiling at other mom's and was fascinated by other babies. She also talks to my laptop now that I have switched my background to one of her photos. Honestly, now that I think about it a bit further, Four Months has introduced a general interest in surroundings. My wedding ring, which I finally found (it was on the dresser the whole time), was neat and shiny to grab at. Drool rags are fun to hold and suck on.

Other features (for good or ill) of Four Months:

- Pacifiers are life saving devices when sleep is being fought and things get fusstastic. Night or day.

- Mark is getting exercise by taking long walks to battle fuss.

- The carseat is no longer guaranteed to be traumatic. The big mirror I put up may help with that somewhat.

- Reduced carseat trauma also means the stroller is usuable again. Very handy for trips to the bathroom as well as outings. :)

- Sleep is uh, well, at least we get *some* most nights.

- The First Cold (ugh.) is part of why sleep is crummy at the moment.

- Did I mention that The Laugh is like crack? :)

Oh, yeah. I also have started back at work. Not sure how long this is going to last. I managed to put in just over 15hrs (pre-baby was 20hrs/week) the first week and haven't managed to put in more than 6hrs per *week* since then. Being sick had something to do with it but also I no longer have the padding of being in the office for a particular number of hours per day. I clock time in bits and pieces while Zoe is napping or nursing. New tasks haven't been coming in as much these past two weeks and I'm finding myself less likely to go look for stuff to do to fill the hours when I can be doing things like relishing having two free hands, getting something to eat, or catching up on the mountains of laundry and dishes.

April 26, 2007

Silly Parenting Trick #57

I can now recite Good Night Moon from memory with about 95% accuracy.

I guess that comes from only having four board books from which to choose: Good Night Moon, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and two by Sandra Boynton -- Snuggle Puppy and The Going To Bed Book.

I ordered a Mother Goose book that I remembered from childhood but apparently my memory was wonky because it is totally not what I expected. We (read: Mark) also pulled down the box of children's books that I brought from my mom's house years ago. It includes a lot of Dr. Suess, a few Disney books, and a handful of Little Golden Books (which are almost exclusively Christmas stories). None of these work as well at this age as the four board books. Most are just longer than I'd like.

I never expected to sing as much as I have in the past month. I'm glad I got a sheet full of songs from Parent Participation class. That was a good starting point and I've been either making things up ("You are very cute, little Toot Toot. You are very sweet, good enough to eat!") or dredging childhood memories for songs (Old MacDonald, This Old Man, etc). Zoe's favorite is "The Merry Duke of York" (Thank you, PP!). Last night she burst into a fit of giggles when we did that one. Probably the combination of the bouncing and singing. :)

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