Mar 15
Hats.
We were led to believe that babies love hats. Wherever we go, we see infants with cute little hats on, reclining docilely in their carriers, sleeping quietly.
Not Elsa. Elsa hates hats. If you put one on, she’ll squirm around until the hat is off. Pretty much the same for socks, mittens, and anything else remotely removable. This episode’s set of pictures includes a cute vignette of Elsa delighting in her flowered hat.
Also this week, we tried out Elsa’s new rubber ducky bath tub for the first time. It’s inflatable, and quacks when you touch the nose. It was pretty successful; Elsa likes warm bath water. The process of getting her out of the bath, on the other hand, is something Lynne and I haven’t fully optimized yet, and the transition out of the ducky was not seamless. Elsa is not shy about letting us know when she doesn’t like something, although she’s getting better about not always crying, but instead loudly “talking” to us to express displeasure.
We put Elsa back on her blanket recently to visualize how much bigger she’s gotten in the six weeks since we took the original blanket photo. You’ll find that photo in this set as well.
Last week, I finally went back to work, so hopefully the flow of photos and videos won’t slow down too much. We have a few things in the hopper that we’ll post when we have a few more free minutes.
Mar 02
It’s hard to believe Elsa is already over two months old!
It seems like just yesterday we brought her home from the hospital and started adjusting to a new member of the family. Now, two months later, it’s hard to imagine what life was like before she was here.
Some things have remained the same. Elsa was a big baby when she was born, and as of her two-month checkup, that hasn’t changed. She’s tracking in a high percentile for length, weight, and (especially) head circumference. She still has blue eyes, although they’ve changed from a dark, almost gray-blue when she was born to a brighter, lighter shade. We’ll know by mid-summer or not whether she’ll keep the blue eyes or develop brown eyes like her mother did.
Elsa’s hair, on the other hand, has gotten progressively lighter. Looking at the pictures from shortly after her birth, the change is very evident. Right now, I’d describe her hair as either light brown or dark blond. Because it’s so thin and sparse, it’s hard to really tell though.
Elsa is a very spirited baby and loves to be awake, talking and commanding social attention. She love to play, smile, and chat, but like most infants, she is also prone to over-excitement. We’ve read that two-month-old infants should be sleeping 15-18 hours per day, but Elsa rarely takes more than a few short naps through the course of the day. Happily, though, over the last couple of weeks Elsa has started to dependably wind down around 8 or 8:30pm and to sleep through 7am or so (with only one or two interspersed feedings.) She’s usually good for at least one 5- or 6-hour contiguous sleep period during the night, which is a godsend.
Here are a few pictures of Elsa wearing one of the shirts Lynne herself wore back in the early 1980s:
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