A few from this past Saturday, when Spring finally started to arrive, before retreating promptly on Sunday…
I cannot wait to see the look on her face when she feels grass on her feet for the first time!
But maybe we’ll try sand first…today, we’re off to the beach to bachelorette-it-up like it’s 2009 with these women and this one!
It’s a toss-up whether she prefers the taste of our rice cereal-pear puree-breast milk combo or the sensation of silicon against her gums, as she keeps clamping down on the spoon long after she’s slurped up every remnant of food.
Just a warning: this post is probably going to be horribly boring unless you’re a first-time parent of a 3- to 6-month-old.
I know, I know. I’m already becoming one of those parents–the kind that I’m sure will drive me a little crazy if I’m lucky enough to one day be a pediatrician. But when I’m on Facebook, I swear I see a ton of updates saying something like, “Holy S—! My kid is only three months old and already rolling over! And he has all his adult teeth and is eating a steak! And he’s reading Joyce!” So when we hit the 5-month mark without any sign of rolling over, I had to suppress the differential diagnosis that started spinning in the back of my head.
It’s times like these when a baby monitor with infrared night vision (a wonderful gift from my Doctoring group–thank you!!) is a truly brilliant thing:
Turns out our little babe had issues of motivation.
anna in med school 