Archive for February, 2009

Bionic baby

Posted on Saturday, February 28th, 2009 at 5:17 pm

On Thursday Charlotte had her 2-month doctor’s visit and she got a bunch of vaccinations. She was pretty cranky the rest of the day and had a little fever. But now we can take her on the T! Although there probably aren’t vaccines for most of the germs you find on the T.

Last night Charlotte slept from 9pm to 5am. It was amazing. She woke up hungry and I fed her, then she fell back asleep for another few hours. Yesterday she and I went to a StrollerFit class with a friend of ours and her baby. It was a good workout for me but I am really sore today.

Charlotte has been working hard on getting her hands in her mouth. She has started to like her swing more and it usually puts her to sleep. 

  

Our growing girl

Posted on Saturday, February 21st, 2009 at 2:51 pm

It’s been awhile since I’ve updated our blog! Charlotte has been cranky for the past week or so and I have hardly had my hands free. Brian’s mom was here for ten days to spend time with Charlotte. We went downtown, went to my parents for dinner and had dinner out with the baby at Geoffrey’s, one of the local restaurants.

Charlotte passed the ten-pound mark recently, and she’s at about the 50th percentile for her age. This week she is getting her first shots. Charlotte has started to hate getting in her car seat. Once we get going she is usually fine. She’s definitely more interested in the world around her when we go out. She used to fall asleep and stay asleep, but now she doesn’t always fall asleep in the car or wakes up when we get to our destination. My mother’s class ended last Thursday, but we’re still planning get togethers.

Charlotte listened very attentively while Brian read her two books:

She’s getting more interested in her solar system play mat and tries to whack the spaceships and planets that hang down:

We made sugar cookies for Valentine’s Day. We break out the cow cookie cutter for every holiday when we make cookies.

My baby’s wicked smaht

Posted on Saturday, February 7th, 2009 at 5:02 pm

Yesterday I took Charlotte to Harvard Square for the first time to hang out with the smart kids. We had lunch with my friends Jon and Kathryn and she was pretty well-behaved, although not asleep like I had hoped she would be. Charlotte has had some fussy days lately–I think she was having a little growth spurt this week. She gets overtired sometimes too and needs help falling asleep. We’ve had a few good nights with five-hour stretches of sleep, which we all enjoy. Those happen every few nights, just often enough to give me hope.  

Kristin and Mike came over to babysit last night so Brian and I got to go to dinner. We took Charlotte out for dinner last weekend and she slept soundly through the whole thing while we celebrated our first night out with her with some fancy grape cosmos.

Charlotte has been smiling more and interacting more with her toys. She’s starting to grab at things and is working on getting her hand in her mouth.