21 Weeks

Favorite activity: Nomming on her fingers or her teething ring
Favorite food: breast milk
Favorite spot: Cuddled with mama
Naughtiest moment: Splashing in the bathtub
Important milestones: First time sitting in her high chair. First experience with solid food.
How Mom's Feeling: Excellent. We've had a very busy week! A visit from Gramama Chris, a trip to the pool, a visit to Folsom for a birthday party for our pal Grady, hiking and wine tasting for Father's Day and our first experiment with solid food!


Lorelei is growing and changing in leaps and bounds! She's *almost* able to sit up in her high chair (my old high chair, in fact!)! We tried out applesauce. Lorelei was...unsure...about the whole process. After doing a bit of research, I'm switching our feeding methods to baby led weaning, or BLW. After having a read a bit about it, I'm really liking the way it works. It's less work for us and makes more sense developmentally. Stay tuned for more progress!


Here are some pictures of our week:

Hanging out with Gramama

Ready to drive! 

A big fan of our new pillow covers!

Grady's First Birthday Party

The birthday boy!

Cuddling with Poppy

Uncle Travis looks ready for babies!

Nomming on a rubber duckie!

Father's Day Hike to Castle Rock and wine tasting at Savannah Chanelle

Ready for a hike!

Happy Father's Day, Papa!

At the waterfall overlook!

So tired on our hike!

At the winery!

Lorelei liked the wine glass!

Such a pretty view! Those old vine made the BEST zinfandel!

Cooling off with Auntie Bonnie!

First Time in the High Chair!

Happy to be in her big girl chair!

What is this???

Hmmm...

And some videos:

20 Weeks

Favorite activity: Nomming on her fingers
Favorite food: breast milk
Favorite spot: Outside. Anywhere, just outside.
Naughtiest moment: Nothing. She is perfect!
Important milestones: Officially teething, first case of cradle cap...
How Mom's Feeling: Good. Kind of tired. Lorelei has officially started teething :/ Poor baby  just cries and cries. It's kind of bipolar, actually. She'll cry and cry until she sticks something in our mouth, be it her teething ring, her teething keys, a stuffed toy or her fingers (or my fingers, or Brian's fingers...) Then she's the happiest girl in the world. 


This week, she's also discovered color, particularly reds, yellows and greens. She particularly loves a specific issue of PC World and most Eric Carle books...


Mostly though, I'm amazed at how our girl is growing and changing. And I'm amazed and grateful to have such a wonderful, happy and easygoing girl (even when she's teething)!


My mom is here visiting this week, so we have lots and lots of pictures, and even a video for you!

Our New Toybox!

Step 1: Tape off the design

Step 2: Paint and Assemble

Step 3: Put in room and fill with blankets and toys!

Playing Around the House!

Loving on her buffalo from Poppy

Tech Shortcuts? Tell me more!

Geekling! Just like Papa!

Lorelei's entertainment center: swing, magazine, Squeaks the Mouse,  Elephant...

Playing is hard work!

Little Strawberry!

Just chillin' in my chair, no big deal. What are you doing?

The Many Faces of Tummy Time

Some video for you:

The last one is admittedly long. The best bits are the first minute!

19 Weeks

Favorite activity: Splashing her feet in the bathtub
Favorite food: breast milk
Favorite spot: In her bouncy chair
Naughtiest moment: Spitting up in mom's hair!
Important milestones: Successful transition to the crib. First time in the swimming pool!
How Mom's Feeling: Pretty great, actually. After Lorelei's 4 month doctor's appointment, we decided to transition her to the crib. I kept telling myself, well, let's wait until she's 3 months and I go back to work. Then it was: let's wait until she's 4 months. Then: wait until she sleeps through the night. And then: let's see how she does after her 4 month Dr. appointment and see how she does. Well, we've hit all those milestones now and we transitioned her to the crib. So far, so good!  She's gone down pretty easily every night. The first few nights, she woke up 2 or 3 times, but now she is sleeping through the night again! We've had a few adventures with the baby monitor: make sure it's plugged in, has good batteries, etc. But overall, my monkey is doing great!


We went swimming on Wednesday. She was unsure at first and definitely did not like the cooler water on her head. In the end though, she was having a fun time, especially watching the "big kids" in the mommy and me swim class. We'll definitely be enrolling in that when she is older!


This weekend we had a great trip up to San Francisco to have brunch with Bonnie and Jessica. Lorelei was a champ, but of course had to eat in the middle of our meal! It's not as bad as I thought to have a fussy baby in a restaurant. Usually, it's so noisy that no one really notices!


Some pictures of our week:

My pal Bummer

nomming Auntie Bonnie