We're off again

We're leaving in the morning for Dalmac, the 4 day bike ride from Lansing to Mackinac. We're bringing Anja, but leaving the dog at home. We will be splitting the biking, one of us will drive with the baby while the other bikes. This will be a real test - 3 nights in a row will be the longest we've camped with Anja, plus the camping situation is really close quarters, the tents of our neighbors will almost be touching ours. So, late night baby noise will not be appreciated by tired bikers who have to get up early. And staying in a nearby hotel if we need to won't be an option because they will all be booked up by the other bikers. So we're committed, whatever the situation.



In other news, Anja is growing so fast. It took so long for her to grow into the 0-3 month clothing, but now she's fully into the 6-9 month stuff. She's really long so she's outgrowing footie pj's fast. I Just picked up some new outfits at the used place. It's hard, but I also sold some stuff back. The special ones, and the ones that are non gender specific I'm sending Laura who is due in December.





More crawling action:

And..... action!

Lately all this kid does is move! We use a full-sized bedspread now instead of a blanket on the floor and she crawls off that pretty quickly. Today we spread a bunch of her toys around the edge of the blanket and she quickly crawled to each of them so she could frantically wrestle with each one in turn. And she makes noises all the time. She squeals and shrieks and blows loud bubbles while rolling all over the place and wrapping the blanket all around herself. If you put her in the bouncy seat she kicks and rocks for hours.

She hasn't gotten up on all fours yet, but she's really close. She can get both knees underneath herself at the same time, and she's starting to push up with her arms now. She's almost had it a few times before she crashes back down. She's very driven to push and kick and scoot around on the floor constantly.

Rocking and rocking:


Places to go:


Lots more rolling:


Anja says no more video:

This kid is so smart!

Look, now she can feed herself!

Conversations

Anja's thoughts on the political candidates (or at least that's what was on NPR when she was talking):




How to crawl when you're 4 months old, complete with sound effects:

No theme today, just fun videos

cute video:




more dog and baby:




kicky legs:




competition between kicky legs and tired baby:

Anja wants to talk

But she doesn't know how to yet. She does sometimes try to babble. The first morning after we stayed in the cabin at Leelenau State Park this past weekend she was talking in an urgent whisper, it was really funny. Here's a picture of her doing it:


I really love these dinosaur pj's, I'm a little sad that she has outgrown them now. Her wrists are really stretching out the cuffs. But they're just so cute!



We had a four month checkup today. We switched doctors and now I'm much happier. We are now going to a father/daughter DO practice, in fact they are the husband and daughter of one of our midwives. Anja is 13lb 13.5 oz and just under 25inches long. Still long and thin: 59% for weight and 82% for height.

Check out Jay in his wedding attire from this weekend:


And here is Anja in her cute wedding outfit. With her foot. In her mouth.

Breakdancing baby

Today Dad was home with Anja while Mom once again was away writing. But he took this video: