3 months

so now we're at the age when we stop counting in weeks and start moving to months. i suppose it has to stop somewhere because soon, i'll be saying "oh, she's 47 weeks..." when people ask how old she is instead of saying she's almost a year or 11 months and that's just down right tedious. so we switch to months, which of course, we moms use longer than most can do the math for as well... "oh, she's 32 months..."

today was the 2nd to last session of my mom's group and therefore it was picture day. i really love those gals and their babies. it's been good times. actually the mom's group will continue meeting informally from now on. the picture taking was interesting. there was 13 babies involved in this particular photo shoot. our facilitator, virginia, warned us that there would be one baby who slept though everything and one baby who cried the whole time. as luck would have it, hana cried the whole time. not only that, she got other babies crying too. i tell you, she's a leader. or a rebel. or a rebel leader. either way, i'm in trouble when she's older i think. but the pictures are cute.

part of what made the shoot so challenging was that the babies kept sliding on the leather couch. hana is reasonably well propped up in this picture but in others, she's completely slouched. incidentally, that's why she's missing a shoe. once we got pictures of the babies all lined up on the couch, we did a "starburst" picture on the floor. hana cried through that as well and once again, brought some other kids down with her. sorry for the small pictures but if you look super close, you can see hana, at about 3:00, making a big pouty face... so dramatic.

other intresting milestones: hana has started the squealing. she squeals for both happiness and frustration/fussiness. sometimes within the same 1-2 minute span of time. she "talks" a lot too. sometimes in the morning when she awakens, or at night after we put her down, we can hear her cooing to herself... SO cute. she's even gotten a little more mellow about the car seat - only crying about 1/2 the time we put her in it. she's beggining to have more fun on the changing table as well, only getting mad about having her diaper change when you do so in lieu of feeding her as she requests. while she isn't really grabbing at toys yet, she does such on her hands a LOT, sometimes singling out her index and middle finger, sometimes shoving her whole fist in her mouth. when i lay her in the gym thingies she's often in the mood to kick the ball and do so for a long time when that happens. i also suspect that she will roll over in the next few weeks. she's been arching her back and getting to her side on her own lately. and when i help her roll over, she has a big smile on her face and squeals with excitement. that's fun to see but that means a whole new level of supervision...

i know i should live in the moment, but there's a part of me that can't wait until she can sit up on her own. i know when she's thirteen years old, i'll wish she was as easy as she was when she was 13 weeks old. but while i do enjoy the moment, i can't help looking ahead too...