a Grandma's touch

Adelaide had a visiting playmate for all of last week, and she had so much fun showing off her favorite toys. Grandma taught her how to grab onto the stuffed carrot and wave it around - fortunately the carrot is soft so it doesn't hurt when she hits herself in the head in search of the mouth! Adelaide says "ooooooo, ooohhh" which I am pretty sure means "thanks for visiting, Grandma - please come again soon!".

dealt a good hand

Adelaide has discovered her hands: She's been studying them intently for several days now (such interesting little items, and they move too! who knew?!?) and she has finally got them up to her mouth in a "that was not quite an accident but I'm not sure I could do it again" sort of way. Now she'll have something besides my arm to drool on :)

Heidi in green

Here we are looking green for earth week - yes I realize that was last week (or was it two weeks ago? geez, time is flying). Adelaide had her two-month check up yesterday - she's 10lbs 3oz now and has grown not quite 3inches. She's healthy and happy and absolutely loved getting shots in her legs - that gave her a rare opportunity to scream her head off, fully justified.

By popular demand, I am working on setting up a Flickr account to post more pictures. Try this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/Nelson_JAM/ or click on the slideshow. Adelaide says: "It's really pretty easy being green" :)

my little fur family

Well Adelaide is busy building her immune system this week (aka - fighting off her first cold) - it's as hard watching your little one suffer as I expected it would be. But she's a champ - hardly any fussier than usual, just more 'nose noises'. To make it easier to breath, I put her up on a foam wedge at night so that she can sleep without snot - as you can see, she likes to share the spot with two bears (they keep her from falling over) - and they are just her size!

awake!

Adelaide's grandparents from Wisconsin visited for a few days over Easter, and she had so much fun taking them on many adventures. We went to Cirque du Solei, all her favorite coffee shops, a tour of Joe's school ... you name it! And she slept through almost every minute. She's quite agreeable and easy to take along wherever we go, but she's quite content to sleep through the sites! Here's a rare awake moment, showing off her big eyes. :)

so strong!

This is part of Joe's favorite Adelaide game: tummy time. He puts his hand under her feet and she'll push against him and scoot her belly forward - making it look like she's 'crawling' across the blanket or up his chest - he's very excited that she's so advanced (sshh, don't tell him that it's just her stepping reflex and she's actually not 6 months ahead of schedule!). Anyway, it's super cute that she works so hard to lift up her head and legs - maybe she knows that she's going to have to get strong if she's going to keep up on family adventures :)

first bath!

Adelaide got her first real (ie not sponge) bath today - and she loved it!! Joe said she curled up in 'womb position' so maybe it felt familiar. Soon she'll learn to splash and then we'll have to take baths away from all the cloth things, but you can see she's pretty content, like always (knock on wood!). :)