More Tummy Time!

Yeah, it's repetitive, but it's also so darn cute.  I love tummy time with Baby Clare - she's rolling all over the place!

4-Month Well Visit!

Baby Clare had her four-month well visit yesterday!  She was a such a happy baby- she smiled and giggled her way through the exam until we got to the shots.  Then she was a sad baby, but only for a few minutes - she was asleep in her carseat by the time we hit the waiting room.

The doctor says Baby Clare looks very good - she is healthy and alert and shows a lot of personality.  Clare is ready for solids - we'll try out rice cereal on Saturday morning.  The doctor also noticed that the poor birdy's gums are pretty swollen - definitely teething!  Although the doctor commented on her teething before looking in her mouth, since Baby Clare kept trying to nibble on the doctor's fingers.  :-)

Remember Clare's gunky eye issues?  I don't. I completely forgot about them as soon as they cleared up - I think that was at the end of July. Her right eye cleared up and then her left eye stopped gunking up soon afterwards.  Hooray!

Anyway, onto the fun stuff.  Here are Baby Clare's stats at 4 months:
Weight: 16lbs 10oz
Height: 26.5 in
Head: 17 in

Soooo big!

Blowing raspberries:

Tummy time!

Yummy paper - nom nom nom

Snow! Again.

We're making it through "Snowmageddon" 2K10! We made sure we were stocked up on diapers and formula, and that we had good food and liabations, as well :-) After a night of sipping Manhattans and playing board games, we woke up to about 16 inches of snow and now it seems to have finally tapered off, leaving us with over 2 feet of the white stuff on our driveway. Amazingly, our neighbors came by with their snowblower to give us a head start, so I bundled up Sean and brought him outside to thank them. Sean seemed a little more excited about the snow this time, but something tells me he has warmer climes in mind:

"Seal me up, mom - and address it to MIAMI!"

Maybe I can convince Sean to stick around long enough to help me bake a "Thank You" gift for the neighbors. Besides, I'm not sure any box can contain him.

He is mobile

Last night Sean rolled over in his crib - and he wasn't swaddled. I woke up hearing him grunting "eh eh eh" on the monitor and went into his room. He was squirming around like a turtle stuck on its back and had rotated himself so that he was lying width-wise in his crib. I watched him for a little while and finally, Sean seemed to realize that by getting his big, brainy head turned to the direction he wanted to go, the rest of his body would follow. And so he rolled... and then he craned his head up at me and smiled. He is mobile.


Next up: finding his thumb?

Forecast: Squiggly with a chance of rolling over

Ever since he came home from the hospital, Sean's been a squiggly, squirmy, little guy. To help this little mover sleep, we put him in a nice, tight swaddle for bedtime so that he doesn't wake himself up. For the past couple of days, Sean's been making the move to try to roll over. And Tuesday morning, I found Sean in his crib, with one arm out of the swaddle, laying on his belly, craning his head up, saying "eh, eh, eh." Apparently Sean can roll or flip himself over when he's swaddled. This scared the heck out of me, so we're going to have to wean Sean from the swaddle.

"I'm coming for you, musical polar bear!"