Louisville for turkey

Last week we packed up for our first set of flights with Mabel while the dogs stayed at home with a sitter and likely caught up on some much needed attention.

The ear plugs were a failure - will try something different next time.

The Mellmans were also home and dropped by with their son Blake:




Mabel's great-grandmother arrived on Tuesday and Kate's parents and brother arrived a little after the Mellmans left:

A visitor

"Aunt" Jessica came to visit and meet Mabel the weekend before we headed out for Turkey Day.


We only left for some take-out sushi.



Someday we will give Jessica a proper tour of town.

Who flipped over those turtles?

You have seen the video of the Peps babies all flailing about like turtles on their backs. It's really pretty funny to be in a room with them all doing that. Mabel is the oldest baby in that group in the video. There is one older boy in our group, but he and his mom weren't at our meeting that day.

Here is a still shot in case my shaky camera work makes you motion sick. From top right they are: Mabel, Sidney, Zeke, Mya, Benjamin and Taylor.

I got M a new winter hat in preparation for her upcoming trips to the midwest. Gotta keep her melon warm. I think she likes it.

PEPS group

Kate and Mabel are part of a PEPS group and Kate shot this video of the babies in flailing about. Mabel is top-right, chewing on her newest favorite, Sofie the Giraffe.

Some sun

Seattle has had a rainy fall, but Mabel and I found some morning sun over the weekend.

3 month shots

Today M went in for her 3 month shots. It was sad as usual, but we all survived. There was no doctor visit - just shots from the nurse. She did get weighed and she is just under 14 lbs. Our growing girl!!!
We are going to go to postnatal yoga today to try to ohm some of her shot stress away.

General Update

Miss M is quickly approaching the 3 month mark! How did that happen?

We are doing really well. We have a nice little weekly schedule down. Tuesdays we go to a mom group run by a nurse. We have been going to that group since week 2 or 3. It is really comforting to hear 1) that what your baby is doing is normal and 2) that every other mom there has dealt/is dealing with the same issues.
On Wednesdays we go to a different mom group. We just started this one 3 weeks ago. It is a smaller group composed of women/babies who all live in the same area. This group is nice because it's more personal and you get to know more about each other outside of what is going on with the babies.
Thursday is movie day. We were forced into adding this to our routine because every Thursday we have been having open houses for realtors and we have to be out of the house for 3 hours. Not many places to go with an infant for that long, especially when it's rainy out. So we go to the movies.

M seems to be doing just fine. She is rolling over, smiling a ton, sorta laughing and just trying to figure out this weird world. It's nice to see some pseudo-personality traits coming out. For example, she HATES to wake up. She instantly screams and is super pissed - even while her eyes are still closed. It's really pretty funny. Once she is fully awake she is her normal smiley self, but get out of her way for those first few minutes. Hmmmm....wonder who she got that trait from?
Her current "likes" are whistling (you saw the video), tongue clucking, saying "boo!" at her and puffing out cheeks. She is not so fond of waking up as discussed above or daytime napping. But we still love her and have decided, officially, to keep her.

We have rollover!!

This is Mabel's 4th official rollover. The 1st was an accidental one weeks ago. This morning however, she figured it out.



Did get the 3rd rollover as well, but only just, as she now rolls over almost immediately. On to the next basic life skill.

If you can make a girl laugh - you can make her do anything

Mabel likes to pick things that are funny - some days it is an empty bag of chips, others a water bottle. Lately, whistling has been hilarious:



All the whistling has the dogs really confused.