February, 2009:

Elise and Althea playin’ footsie on the couch.  3 months.

Elise will be 12 weeks old on Monday.  She’s recently become aware of her hands, and that she can suck on them.  I think she’s aiming for her thumb, but more often than not, getting an as-yet-uncoordinated fistful of wayward fingers either in her eyes or up her nose.  It’s cute, and the loud, wet and sloppy sucking sounds make me laugh every time.

Notable accomplishements and notes –

• Burps are becoming truly impressive.
• Neck and head control are rockin’ and rollin.  Most of the time, they appear bored with resting their heads, and insist on swinging their mostly-well-supported heads in all directions.  Sometimes, right into my collarbone which elicits the slow crescendo “that hurts” cry.
• Learned about this “that hurts” cry when they got their first round of booster shots.  Don’t get me started about booster shots.
• Smiles are becoming more predictable and responsive (as opposed to merely reflexive).  Laughter is still limited to when they’re asleep.  I’m still trying to figure out what babies find funny.  I mean, they haven’t seen “Airplane!” yet.
• They smile at me when I get home from work.