We are getting close to the end of the exciting 4th trimester, and it shows in just how pleasant Miss Ivy is, almost all the time. She certainly employs the full force of her lungs to tell us when she is hungry, tired, or has a messy dipe-- though I must say we are getting pretty darned good at reading her cues and she rarely gets up to a full shriek for those reasons. The car, of course, is another story. Ivy simply cannot tolerate being awake in the car. Put her in asleep, jiggle that car seat occasionally, and things are OK. Put her in awake and you better be ready to get some real arm exercise bouncing the carseat emphatically all the way to your destination. Hoping this phase comes to an end soon...
Current milestones:
*Great head control overall, and can push up past 45 degrees on her tummy.
*Loves to face out and look around.
*Continues to enjoy laying on her back and looking up at things--her mobile, lights, trees especially.
*Lots of smiles and noises and a few little laughs.
*Enjoying social games such as the "ahhhhhh-boop!" game Jack is playing with her in the above photo.
*A rock star at getting her little fists into her mouth.
*Wants to suck on everything!! Brings our hands and her blankets to her mouth.
And a little Jack update too:
Jack has always been a "reader"-- loves having stories read to him, looking through books. He is now enjoying longer stories, and ones with fewer pictures. "Frog and Toad" is a current favorite. And, he is aware of the words, and their power, as evidenced by him saying "I don't know how to read the words!" when we ask him to "tell us about the story." We are encouraging him to think about the meanings of the pictures as we expose him to the text. Who knows, he may be a reader before kindergarten at this rate.
Today, Jack and I enjoyed playing with some of my Playmobil collection for the first time. He absolutely loved it. We enacted a drama of a plane crash and the rescue by the ambulance, about a thousand times. It was so sweet, watching him carefully place the figures in the little seats, arranging all the tiny pieces just so, pretending. Love it.
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