Love Bite

Dexter gave me a hickey! While we were playing this afternoon, he grabbed my arm and pulled my wrist to his mouth and sucked and sucked and sucked until he left a little love bite. No wonder we never had any real problems with breastfeeding.

Chatterbox

TV Excitement

I just brought a load of clean laundry up from the basement and found Ben, Dexter, and My Bologna on the couch staring at the TV. What was so enthralling? Curling. Olympic trials. Go figure.

Wild Bill Hiccup

2 Steps Forward, 1 Step Back

What can I say? We panicked. After about a half hour of screaming and fussing at bed time, we went back to one arm out of the miracle blanket. Sure enough, he was asleep in minutes. We'll try transitioning to the sleep sack again next weekend.

Hands Free At Last, Hands Free At Last, Thank God Almighty, Hands Free At Last!

Dexter has been voraciously chewing on his hands and for the past week we have kept one hand out of the miracle blanket overnight. Last night, he was really struggling when we wrapped him up so we decided to try to shift to a "hands-free" sleep sack. Sure enough, he loved it. This, coupled with putting away most of his 0-3 month outfits yesterday, caused some serious sentimentality in Mommy. Parenting seems to have a lot of lessons about learning to let go.

Body Parts

A few weeks ago, Dexter discovered his hands and has been fascinated with them ever since - looking at them, playing with them, batting at and grasping things, and stuffing them as far into his mouth as he can manage. This week, the discovery was feet! It started during a diaper change and now he realizes that he can pull his little legs up and look at his feet whenever he wants. It's like he's doing baby-yoga!