Raina's New Shoes

Raina's First Day of School!

Raina on the couch with her lunch box before leaving for her first day of school (day care...)!

Bath Time!

Dad's back in town and we celebrate with a session in the tummy tub! Mom mans the camera and laughs while Dad struggles to figure out how to wash Raina's dupa.

Bathtime

3 Months! (cont'd)

Catching up on the month of April. Mom and Dad are both back to work now. Granny Diane spent two weeks here taking care of all three of us (thanks Gran!). Here's an album with some pics from the past few weeks.

Raina (3 Months)

3 Months!

Raina will officially be three months old tomorrow (Monday). How exciting. Recently she's taken to gumming everything she can get her hands on. We think this means a tooth is imminent but we can find no evidence to support that theory otherwise.

Grandma Diane has been helping while Mom and Dad are both off to work... which is awesome as it lets us dodge child-care payments an extra two weeks.

10 Weeks!?

Wait, WTF>>> weren't we just at 9 weeks? Holy Horatio, these babies make time fly. It's worse actually, tomorrow she'll be 11 weeks old. Egad. No need to rationalize my inability to keep track of the major dates... NPR has some science to explain it all. That's right, SCIENCE.

Raina (10 wks)

9 Weeks!

Album documenting the visual evidence of Raina at 9 weeks old. Mommy loves these weekly roll-ups! Daddy wonders when we're going to start counting Raina's age in months.

Raina (9 wks)

Sad Face!

Grandma Sue and Grandpa Jared wrapped up a visit today... Raina protesting their departure.

Sleepy Time

Cherry Blossoms and Babies

Raina and Dad walked down to the National Mall to get lunch and see the cherry blossoms with Jackie, Andrew and Ashlyn. Excellent weather. LOTS of people. Mom even ducked out of work early to meet up! Awsm! Aunt Jackie took some good pics. Here's one of the fam.

Raina and Ashlyn

Video of Raina and Ashlyn doing what babies do... which is mostly just sitting there.

Play Dates

Today Raina had a play date with Grandma in the morning. Which consisted of eating, sleeping, reading and more eating. In the afternoon we went to hang with Aunt Jackie and Ashlyn. See Aunt Jackie's pics over at her site.

Tummy Time

Ped Appt + Hoodie Redux

Raina's two month check up was this afternoon. She weighed in at 12lbs 2oz. Good eatin' kid! The Doc sez she's in the 75th percentile for length and 90th percentile for weight. Possibly a future in Baby Sumo is warranted. .. .

Hoodie

Winterized baby gets ready to venture out for coffee with Mom and Dad.

Mr. Mom

Momma is back to work and Dad's home for a few weeks. Raina celebrated with four projectile spit-ups within 20 minutes of getting up this morning. We managed to get some laundry done, wash some dishes and take a two hour nap.

Look, ma! I'm eight weeks old! (pics)

Collection of our favorite pictures from Raina's eighth week.

Raina (8 wks)

Baby Portrait and Baby Kisses

Raina went to get some semi-professional pictures taken. Mommy dressed her up pretty-like.

Fashion Sense

Raina sporting her new sunglasses, thanks Leslie and Dutch! Very fashionable for 8 week old babies as I understand.

Let the Record Show...

Raina's bath time is around 8pm every night. I usually take her from the changing table to the bathtub aka sink, nekkid, with a baby wipe covering her nether regions to guard against what I consider the inevitable. (Pooping, for those of you without an imagination)

Last night my beautiful wife went from the changing table to the "bathtub" with just her hand over over the business end of the baby. I commented that I thought this was folly... and that she was inviting disaster. Courtney replied "Oh puuhhlease, she won't poop in my hand!".

Now I, having not yet achieved a state of enlightened egolessness, set about wishing directly that Raina would crap in Courtney's hand each (and every) time she pulls that stunt. But that's not really the point. The point is that Courtney said what she said and I feel strongly that I need to get it on record now... so that it's all the sweeter when she comes to me with a hand full of baby doo-doo.