A Day of Firsts


Yesterday was a day of a lot of firsts...

First time Dahlia went to Best Buy - boy was she intrigued by those tall ceilings. She really wanted to go home with a 50" HDTV but I was strong and resisted her baby jedi-mind tricks and told her no. Not until she can at LEAST sit up...

First time in the fabric store. Ooh! All the colors. Sadly (for Mama) she seemed to enjoy the electronics store much better.

First time she HELD ON TO SOMETHING. I loved this. I don't think she *knew* she was holding on to something - just that something was *different.* We could put a rattle near her hand and she *sort of* grabbed for it and would hold on and then flail about either 1) playing/shaking it or 2) trying to get the danged thing off her hand. Hard to tell.

First time she went for a stroller ride/walk to the park! It was cold, yes but it felt a bit more springy yesterday for the first time in ...I don't know, a year so off we went. Sadly she slept through most of it. At one point she looked up and her facial expression said - "Where the hell am I now?!?" Every time she wakes up she's some place new.

It's been so much fun lately. She's totally into her mobile in the crib, she watches the play bar on both her bouncy seats (the one that lights up/blows bubbles/plays music and the low-fi one with jus the animals hanging down); she smiles quite a bit (love love LOVE IT!); She's more content to lay on a blanket and kick her feet and look around and not so dependent on her pacifier. Right now she is STARING DOWN stuffed giraffe on her bouncy seat and it's quite cute.

Comments

Kate said…
She's getting a personality! Yeah!
2:33 PM
African Kelli said…
Carrie -- I cannot get over how much she looks like you! It is crazy. She is just beautiful.
2:58 PM
Meigan said…
I can't tell you how great it is to read posts like this. Those early days with the new ones are horrible, but there is such a light at the end of the tunnel.

And man, she is CUTE!
10:27 PM
michelle said…
omg! (that was lame - sorry) SHE IS ADORABLE!! love that picture!

i need to make it up to duluth soon and see you!!

i'm glad to hear things are going so well! yay! :)
10:35 PM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

I should've done this a year ago....

Image
A pandemic game time & conversation (via Zoom)   Well, we're about 13 months into this pandemic and I should've been back blogging then. I mean, I was home an awful lot. I could've done it. But I didn't. I wrote in my actual journal but that's a crazy mish-mash of stuff. This would've been fun to keep just pandemic stuff. Ah well, live and learn. I'll be ready for the next one (no, no, I won't). It's been a year...a year of ups and downs; of being laid off and re-hired; of wondering what to do with my life and starting grad school. We got fish, we got two kittens. What a year.  Kids have mostly been troopers but there have been some tough days. August went back to hybrid last fall, then everything stopped for a while and went back to 5 days a week in February - hooray! Dahlia finally got to start hybrid in.....February? (I can't remember) and then started back in person 4 days a week...but after her first 4 days she was identified as a "
Read more

Penguin Shenanigans

Image
For our 2020 Winter Reading program, there wasn't an overall theme. I decided to create my own theme. And the Penguins took over the library! I printed out real-to-life sized photographs of penguins...an Emperor, a Fairy, a Chinstrap and a Galapagos Penguin to be exact. I put them on the walls in one area. My hope was that kids would stand next to them and measure up - and they sure did! It put a smile on my face every time. Above each penguin I included some facts. Usually where they lived, what they ate and any quirky stuff about them. It's always great to be able to provide a little learning opportunity along the way. We also included penguin voting. I always think it's fun to add a pre-math activity when I can. I made 4 buckets with a photo of each of the aforementioned penguins. Kids (& adults) were able to ask for a "voting token" (ie: a saved bottle cap) at the desk and then put it in the bucket of their choice. It was fun hearing t
Read more

I figured it out....

Image
and IT'S A GIRL!! I'll do a proper introduction later and the whole story and everything but in the meantime, we had a baby girl. 2:15pm on Friday afternoon (I posted at, what? 10;30am? You do the math!!). Her name is Dahlia Marie and she weighed in at a whopping 6lbs even. 19 1/4" long and so incredibly gorgeous (although, I might be a wee bit biased). The birth was the most amazing experience I've ever been through and my mind is still, well, blown, quite frankly. I am so tired though...time for a quick nap before we try to feed again.
Read more