Hannah’s First Baseball Game

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Thanks to a work event Heather was a part of, we got to go to a baseball game in Des Moines.

Hannah was amazing at the game! She was content hanging out with everyone at the pregame picnic.

 

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We had time to check out the fountains before the game got underway:

 

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Initially she was excited about the prospect of the game:

 

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But she didn’t last that long:

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She was wonderfully cooperative basically the entire game. The vendor shouting “POPCORN! PEANUTS!” as he walked right next to us was a little much, giving her a chance to exercise her lower lip and there may have been some crying at that point too.

All in all it was far better than we were expecting for our first major outdoor outing!

I would love to write more, but Hannah seems to want my help with something…

Until next time!

-Jordan

 

Hannah Month 4

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Every Saturday now that Hannah is more or less in a routine, we have a sort of tradition, where I make breakfast and Heather reads from a baby book so we can learn what phase of development Hannah is in, or something like that.

A few weeks back the book said “she will probably start making raspberry sounds this week” within hours, Hannah was happily sputtering away! It became her favorite sound to make for the entire weekend, so I captured a little of it:

After that weekend she has lost some of her affinity for the raspberry sound, and has moved onto some great shrill squeals of excitement, while still throwing in the occasional raspberry.

When not making sound, Hannah has now discovered rolling over. She often isn’t quite sure what happened, but seems to deal with the inversion of the world fairly well.

We have introduce rice cereal into her diet, or at least into her mouth. I can’t tell if any actually made it far enough to provide any nutritional value.

one more anecdote before I go:

Heather, Hannah and I attended a wedding a few weeks ago. At the reception (a facility built to allow several concurrent receptions), we spent a surprisingly large amount of time in the hallway feeding, or changing, or just comforting Hannah. We were not alone however, many other slightly frazzled parents shared the space with us. Heather said to me “wow, I wonder if this has been going on at ever wedding we have been at and we just didn’t know about it?” It seems we have entered a whole new world thanks to Hannah! 🙂

-Jordan

Baby Notes From March

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Well, there was a time when I worried that having a child would dominate the blog.

As it turns out, having a child dominates my time, making doing anything on the blog kind of hard. I do have plenty of time to reflect on things that might be interesting… and then talk myself out of posting them…

I have a few observations I wanted to remember someday, so I will share here.

  • Hannah, in this phase at least, cries just like people sometimes write it “whaaa whaaa whaaa” I never thought about a baby putting the ‘W’ on there, but she really does. It kind of drives home the infant part of her I suppose
  • Turning down the lights at night may not make Hannah sleepy, but it really knocks me out… so far she has always fallen asleep first though 🙂
  • I realized how soothing music can be for me, and wanted to sing to Hannah as part of our bedtime ritual, and quickly discovered that I cannot remember any “bedtime” songs.
  • She doesn’t seem to mind that we repeat the same three or four songs over and over
  • Those songs are basically all hymns, but they are the only kind of song I can pull off without some music or something to follow
  • My vocal cords really aren’t up to the task of singing as much as Hannah would like. I suppose I will build some endurance, or maybe she will learn to be content with just one pass through dad’s entire repertoire.

I suspect these things may not be as profound a year from now, but it’s something, and I enjoy taking a minute to reflect. We talk to parents with kids nearing two and they can’t seem to remember a single detail from the “not yet crawling” phase, so I guess there is a never ending stream of new experiences awaiting us in the days ahead.

-Jordan

 

Bedtime

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As Hannah’s eighth week draws to a close a few patterns are starting to emerge. I think about these a lot, given that it is my job to put her to sleep each night.

I have thought about this enough to provide a helpful chart of the bedtime process:

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Sometimes we skip that initial “Upset” blip, but almost never do we skip the “end of the world” cry before passing out.

On a very positive note, she has slept through the night for the past three nights. We hope this is the start of a trend, but it’s too early to know for sure.

On a final note, waking up is really cute right now:

 

-Jordan