Happy Valentine's Day

Jocelyn wanted to wish everyone a Happy Valentine's Day and show off her new dress from Aunty Kristin! Hope it is a good one!

Tummy Time

Jocelyn discovered her hand was a great way to distract her from the torture of Tummy Time. She is growing like a weed and is currently wearing size 6 month clothing! We had to pack away three boxes of clothes ~ many of which she wore only once!
We are happy to report that her sleeping has improved, thanks to input from Aunty Jenn and many other friends whose brains we picked regarding sleep schedules. She still has some nights it takes a bit longer to settle her but usually it is because she has a burp that we haven't gotten up or she is still hungry (surprise :-)).

The Loch Ness in Technicolor

Here is the grin ~ Enjoy!

The elusive Loch Ness

I think we finally got a shot of her smiling - kind of:

Here's Jocelyn preparing to root on the Patriots to victory tonight. She's thinking about the crush she's going to have on Tom Brady in a few years.

Once again, I am struck by how darn cute my daughter is. Thank God she gets her photogenic qualities from Mom and not Dad.

I've been going through the reams of pictures we've taken the past few weeks, and I have to say that there are surprisingly few that are blog-worthy (even if they do make us smile). Here's another of our favorites. She's wearing a hat just given to her by her aunt Jenn (thank you!). She wore this while walking around town today with Mom and Dad. She had a ball!

Sleepless in Arlington

Change is afoot in our household. About two days ago, The Peanut decided she would no longer eat her normal 6-8 oz. at each feeding during the day. As a result (we think, or maybe this is unrelated), she no longer sleeps for extended periods during the day, instead napping for anywhere from 15 to 45 minutes. By the end of the day, she is overtired, extremely fussy and has trouble going down for the night, so we spend the hours between 8:00 and 10:00 trying to get her to stop crying and off to sleep.

The mind-boggling thing about it is that NOTHING has changed to cause this change in her behavior. We don't know whether she is transitioning to a stage where she just needs to eat less (maybe she just finished a growth spurt?) or sleep less during the day, whether there is something wrong with her physically, or whether she just decided that she had had enough of the old routine. I realize that trying to employ logic to analyze a baby's behavior can be a fruitless exercise, and maybe I should just realize this is part of the overall child-rearing experience. My Mom said she thinks this is just Jocelyn demonstrating her developing personality. If that's the case, it's OK with me, even if it does test our patience a bit and make things a little tense around the house at times. I would just like to know definitively that she's OK and will continue to be.

A couple of milestones

Two big events today. The first is that Peanut is a month old! (It's hard to believe a month has passed already.) In honor of her "birthday," here's a pic of her in her birthday suit.

This is tubby time, part of our nightly ritual when I come home from work and give her a bath, get her dressed for bed, and either read to her or feed her, whichever she prefers. It's hard to say whether she or I looks forward to tubby time more each day. As I've said before, she's pretty good company. And yes, I realize that at some point I am going to figure out how to unwind myself from around her finger. But not for a while. :)

The second milestone is that Mom and I think we saw her first smile this morning! There have been plenty of false alarms before (usually brought on by gas), but this seemed to be an actual response to a pleasurable stimulus. We shook a rattle for her while she sat in her new chair (given to us this past weekend by Uncle Tim and Aunt Marie) and she seemed to love it. We had her going for a little bit.

Of course, as soon as we tried to get a picture of it to share with you all, the smile went away. Here are a couple of shots we took afterward where she had kind of a little smirk going. You'll just have to take our word for it that her actual smiles were much better than these - and no, we're not going to tell you we saw the Loch Ness monster today too.


Happy Birthday Peanut!

Popeye The Sailor Man

Jocelyn always looks and acts a bit like Popeye when she knows she's about to be fed. She's got the whole one eye open and one side of mouth upturned thing going. All she needs is a pipe. Toot-toot!