15 week update

Thanks for your patience everybody! We've been doing some renos at our house - painting the kitchen, entryway and hall - so I haven't been posting much. To make up for it, this one will be a photo-heavy post.

Not much is really new. Mostly, Rowan just keeps getting MORE of everything: more coordinated, more vocal, more variation in her sounds, more interested in what we're doing. She's also more cranky, more squirmy, and requires more stimulation. :-)

Rowan continues to be an excellent sleeper, usually going to bed around 8pm, sleeping until somewhere between 4:30 and 6am, eating and then going back to sleep for another 3 hours. We're so lucky! However, all this night-time sleeping comes at a daytime price. Rowan is awake most of the day and hardly naps, so she needs a lot of stimulation. She gets crankier as the day goes on, usually reaching her zenith when Nigel gets home. Poor Daddy!


Such a sweet sleeper.


And cute when she wakes up, too.


And quite a monkey once she is fully awake.


I usually try to read to Rowan in the morning.

Rowan is especially interested in watching Nigel and me eat these days. I suspect she will be one of those kids who will hijack the spoon as soon as you start trying to introduce solids.

She is getting really good at grasping things with two hands and getting them into her mouth. Her teething rattle and Bop the octopus' feet are both munched fairly regularly.


Chomp.


Mmmm. Fuzzy calamari.

cuteness and coordination

It is blowing my mind how quickly Rowan's coordination is improving. She went from sort of randomly grabbing at things to being really accurate in just a couple of days. And she is much better at getting things into her mouth without wildly missing the target.

Rowan is very quick and accurate when grabbing the handles of her musical bugs mobile or the Old McDonald cow. Just a week or two ago, you could see her little mind whirring as she willed her hands to do her bidding. Now, if she wants it, she grabs it with little hesitation. Amazing how fast the brain builds pathways.


Rowan has gone from bonking herself with the above teething toy to being able to get it to her mouth with relative ease. She is also learning to use two hands to hold onto things.


Rowan spits up a lot, which means she gets to wear many different outfits in a day. This also means I do a lot of laundry. But she's so cute that I don't mind.

now for the photos

Here are the promised photos now that Rowan is in bed for the night.


Rowan likes playing with her hands. She also likes trying to stuff both of them into her mouth at the same time.


Tummy-time is getting to be less upsetting for Rowan as she gets stronger. Toys help encourage her.


Rowan gave her grandma big smiles this weekend - farting noises really make Rowan happy!


Rowan's Aunt Erica gave her some really nifty animal books that have skin and fur textures. I really like the lizard skin and the sticky treefrog feet! Can't really say which ones Rowan likes best yet, but she does reach up and touch the textured patches as well as helping to turn the pages.