Another Smile

I guess we first noticed it some time last week. In between the sleeping and the eating, we've started to get more awake, alert, and non-crying time with Eli. He's started having daily wiggle time, spending as much as 30 minutes, hanging out and wiggling. I think we're getting some verbal interaction as well. We coo, he coos, that kind of thing.

His sleeping pattern has been different lately, going to bed "for the night" around 8, then sleeping for 6 hours or so. The bad part of that is it seems like I haven't gotten to spend much time with him this week. I've missed all the wiggling.




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He's on Candid Camera

In a way, he was smiling weeks ago. OK, those were just facial ticks that took the form of a smile. But now thy're real. You can see it not only in his mouth, but in his eyes, too.

Then today, while I was singing The Electric Company 1-12 song as set to the pinball machine, he gave me a big smile and let out an enthusiastic "coo!" Maybe that was just a verbal tick, but I'm going to go ahead and call it his first laugh.


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Round and Round

We were at a barbecue in Golden Gate park, and I had Eli in the Moby carrier. He was getting restless so I started walking around to calm him. Along came a group of 8 mopeds, and the only person who hates the noise of a moped more than me is Eli. I walked back toward the kids' park, and there it was: Es un encanto!




Eli got his first carousel ride. Round and round, up and down, he was quickly back to sleeping like a baby.

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More Visitors!

Susie's cousin, Brad, came to visit for the weekend, and we had a great time. On both Saturday and Sunday, we managed to roll out of the house by 2pm to go get breakfast. Saturday we went to a reunion of our birthing class to swap stories, and to make us laugh (one woman, after describing a terrible birth said, "but they did let us keep the placenta!)

On Sunday, we took Brad on what may be our favorite hike in the area--from Stinson beach, up Steep Ravine to Pan Toll, and down Matt Davis. The excitng part was getting back to the beach just moments before they closed the park and locked us in. It was touch 'n go.




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Susie's brother and his wife arrive on Wednesday. Larry has kindly offered to change all the diapers while he's here.

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Feeding

Here's all the equipment for breast feeding.




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Ellis Peak (Yes, with Two Ls)

We spent four days up near Lake Tahoe over the weekend. On the first day, we hiked to the top of Ellis Peak. It's a 6 mile hike with about 1,500 feet of climbing that takes you to a 9,000 foot peak overlooking Lake Tahoe and the Desolation Wilderness. It is a stunning view.

We've discovered that Eli really likes hiking. In all of our hikes, I slipped him into the Moby wrap and he fell soundly asleep. At the turnaround point, we'd feed and change him. He'd stay awake for half an hour, watching the trees and the sky go by, then fall asleep for the remainder of the hike. He's really impossibly cute:


How perfect is that?

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