Modified Tummy Time

I really enjoy looking around my surroundings, as long as I'm awake and happy (which my Mommy and Daddy would say is only a fraction of a day). Sometimes my Mommy and I play a game called "tummy time." I'm not entirely sure how this constitutes a game, as no one really takes turns, nobody advances through any sort of levels or places on a board, and no one can win, but hey, who's complaining?

The game entails this: I lay on my stomach and hold up my head. My Mommy praises me. Sometimes I hold up a part of my body with my arms. This is when my Mommy gets really excited. :) Other times I may try and kick my feet and play like I know how to crawl (Mommy and Daddy say that will come in time).

Anyway, here's a picture of what Daddy called "modified" tummy time where Mommy put me on my tummy on a pillow laid on the couch. Meanwhile, Daddy took pictures. One of those pictures is in this post. Daddy said I looked cute in the bonnet, but I just don't know...

Meredith wears a dress

Mollie this morning decided Meredith could wear a dress and chose the dress Mollie was baptized in. She even put on the bonnet. How cute! Our plans are to have Meredith wear the baptismal gown my sisters and I wore when we were baptized, but Mollie's getting worried that Meredith won't fit into it. We'll just have to see in two weeks. The picture with this post was taken after we came back from church today with Meredith wearing the dress and bonnet. Luckily for us she laid (mostly) content while we quickly took her picture.

Meredith is doing well, still eats, sleeps, makes messes in her diapers, and cries. Mollie seems to think that Meredith cries more than normal, but Mollie is experiencing most all of the crying Meredith does, so her opinion may be biased. Meredith does seem to get a fair bit of gas and she can be bloated some times, but we have found that gas drops help out. Right now Mollie's looking into what goes into "gripe water" that often is given to babies who have colic problems. We've both decided that we would talk with our pediatrician first, though.

Daddy & I Take a Nap

Mommy says I'm napping more, but if you ask me, this whole sleeping thing is overrated. I would much rather be looking around, trying to hold up my own head, and exploring the world. All I need to do is learn to crawl... but Mommy and Daddy say I sure kick enough to be crawling any time now. Mommy keeps having this thing called "tummy time" and praises me when I hold up my head and my body with my arms. Oh well, I'm content to do as they ask as long as Mommy keeps feeding me and changing my diapers.

One of my favorite sleeping positions with Mommy and Daddy is while they're lying/sleeping too. I nestle myself into their shoulder and try to get some rest too. Sometimes I just don't feel like sleeping, though, and I just hold myself up and look around. Problem is, it seems like we're always trying to sleep on the couch, and all I can see are couch cushions. That's just no fun! I need to request a new sleeping location so I can see all the fun things in the world. I'll get on that soon enough, but in the mean time you can look at the picture of Daddy and me sleeping on the ever so boring couch.

Shamu, meet Meredith

Last weekend was the SwRI (Tim's work) picnic at Sea World San Antonio. Jaclyn (a college friend of Mollie's) was over for the weekend helping us out and Meredith is now just a month old, so we decided to venture out into the populated world with her for a short while. Being Texas in September, it was quite toasty outside so we tried to keep to the shows intermixed with trips to air conditioned buildings.

Two of the shows we went to included Shamu's Believe, and the dolphin Viva show (see pictures). Unfortunately, the introductions between Shamu and Meredith were really just a one-way transaction as Meredith slept through the show, but she was awake during Viva! It probably doesn't matter because she can't really focus on anything that far away yet, but Mollie, Jaclyn, and I had a good time anyway!

If you look at the picture of Meredith, hopefully you can see how much bigger she's getting, quite a surprise when you think just a short month ago she was hardly six pounds! She's growing like a weed! :)

Back to the Doctor

Meredith went in for her one month appt. today. It was a hard one. They drew blood from her arm finished said it was not enough and drew from the other arm. Meredith screamed the whole time poor girl then after that they gave her her hep B vax. Her weight is up to 8.7 lbs and her height is 20 1/4 inches. Her head is still measuring large at 14 inches. Wow she weights what a "typical" new born would weight at a month. She is loving still fitting into her newborn cloths though. Every now and again i try something bigger on her but NOPE. Some day soon she will be in them though. No picture because it was not a pretty sight today.

Widow's Peak

HELP!!!! I am losing my hair. who knows what color it will come back in as. Mama still says i am beautiful though.

Some of the Grandparents

Here are some pictures of Meredith visiting with her grandparents. Some how when my mom was here i did not take any pictures blame the socialization. Good thing she lives near by and we can see her again soon. Meredith was visited by her Grandma Stavenger and by her "Pops." Here are some pictures.

A New Trick

Meredith has learned a new trick and it makes me laugh every time she does it. She sticks out her tongue. She does it when she is happy when she is sad when she is ready to eat pretty much all the time, even when she is sleeping. See evidence to the left.

Birth Announcement Ordered!

So it's been three and a half weeks, but we (finally) have a picture chosen for a birth announcement (see picture for this post). Mollie and I have it on order at our local grocery store/photo center (HEB), and it should be ready soon. All we'll have to do then is mail it out to everyone ... ;)

Keep Trying

Mom and Dad have it in their heads that we need to have a picture of me that could go on my birth announcement...yeah my parents are LATE getting to that point. you would think that by now they have enough pictures of me that they can pick one out and do the announcement but NO..mom even took about 12 today and does not like any of them. We will share the best with you but we will have to have another photo session when dad gets home. Well mom says it is time for me to go and take my afternoon nap so that she can get some house work done (our first official day of just the two of us). I am trying to be good for mom but sometimes it is just so hard to be a baby...i can not tell mom what i need so she has to guess and sometimes it takes her a while to guess right. Oh well we will get it all working. Oh and mom played with the colors on this picture just because she thought that it looked better this way.