Leah's Many Faces

The first picture was taken after Leah's nap. We tried to capture her tuft of hair on the side of her head. She frequently makes this face when she's excited about something or wanting to stick something in her mouth. One friend of ours says that she usually has this surprised look on her face.

The next one is the blank look that she gives us when she's bored if we're trying to take her picture and she just stares at the camera. You can also see the bright Leah smile has been permanently moved to our side bar so you may see it every time you view our blog.

I took the last picture while I was doing laundry on the bed. I wanted to keep her entertained so I was throwing the socks at her. I taught her how to fold them but all she wanted to do was eat them.

The Picture Collage

This is a picture collage from my daily activities with Leah. I didn't want to do a separate post about each one so I'll give a brief summary for each photo.

1. The Cookie Reach: Caught in the Act - this one happened during bath time one night. We had made some cookies that day and as we were changing Leah and getting her ready for bed, she was reaching over for the cookies. This is another clue that she must be raiding our food supply when we're not looking.

2. The Bundle - this is Leah's outfit when we go out in the 14 degree weather. She stays nice and cozy and can hardly move her arms.



3. The Snuggle - one morning Logan woke up with Leah at 7:30 a.m. and had to leave for school so he brought her to me. I wasn't done sleeping so we snuggled under the covers until she fell asleep. Logan snapped the picture before he left.


4. Current Events - we were reading the newspaper together one afternoon and as you can see, Leah has a different reading style than I do. She likes to understand the content so thoroughly that she tastes the paper.

5. Mismatched - Some days I don't have much time to get ready so I hurry as fast as I can. This day I must have hurried too much because I didn't even notice until that evening that I put on two different earrings.

Our idea of date night

Logan teases me that I spend all my time blogging. He pictures me at home all day while he's at school sitting by the computer. This is partly true. The little spare time that I do manage to fit in my day between caring for and feeding Leah, doing the dishes, running errands and cleaning around the house is spent on the computer. Leah has become more active and requires more attention now so any time she naps I enjoy the quiet time to myself.

Most of our blog covers Leah and her milestones so I'm attempting to blog about myself without including my life as a mother. Logan and I recently joined Blockbuster online where you pay a monthly fee and movies will be shipped to your home. Better yet, once you have watched one movie you can take it into the store and get a free movie. With a baby, bad parking around our apartment and the freezing cold weather, this is the perfect solution to date night. We can watch all the movies that we never got to see in the comfort of our own home. And we don't have to choose just one movie to splurge on.

Finding her voice

During the last four and a half months, Leah has grown a lot. She moved up her clothing size to nine months. She now sits up with little support and wants to push up and stand. She also likes to hear herself talk, especially to get her parents' attention. She tries to see how long she can go before her voice gets tired. Here she is during the Christmas break. (We apologize that the video is turned to the side. We haven't figured out how to change it yet, so we just posted it anyway.)

Major sleep breakthroughs

The past few days and nights we have been trying to get Leah on a schedule of less naps so she wouldn't wake up every three hours at night. She had two major breakthroughs the last two nights where she slept for seven hours straight, woke up to eat and then went back to sleep until 8:00 a.m. We (mostly me because I'm the one getting up with her at night) were extremely excited that she is getting the hang of things. She still has a hard time going right to sleep at night, but once she is out she can sleep for awhile.

We hope this pattern will continue in the future. Everyone, cross your fingers for us.