Today marked the beginning of my second mom/baby group. What a difference from nearly eight weeks ago when I started my first one. Back then, all nine moms looked a little ragged from the effort of making it out of the house. Half of the session was spent gasping in relief, exclaiming “oh, me too! My baby does that, too!” It was so good to know we weren’t alone in the strange first weeks of mom-and-babyhood. The babies were small, relatively quiet, and slept a lot. The oldest one in the bunch was a whopping 9 weeks old.
Fast forward to today, and it was quite a bit louder in that very same classroom. A different group of moms and babies (inclusive of another set of twins), and entirely different activities. Now we have songs and books and parachutes, not to mention a whole lot more noise from the more alert babies. Now the youngest is 10 weeks, the oldest 4.5 months. We’re a slightly more confident bunch, or at least not stressing about the same old things. There are plenty of new milestones to worry about. But to watch the 4-month-old rolling over, I know we’re in for an interesting month at my house.
The babies really are changing. Rebecca is all smiles a lot of the time, seems so very close to really laughing, and in general is the much better and easier sleeper (so there go your theories about weight and sleep). Daniel is so big, and a little more reserved with the smiles. Today was a happy exception, and he was smiling and chatting away on the play mat for 30 minutes this afternoon. I even notice him starting to twist his body a bit, possibly in preparation for that first roll. They are both getting better every day at getting a hand to find its way to the mouth. But they’re so angry when that hand disappears!
For today’s pictures… a happy Daniel works on getting that hand where he wants it.
