Enjoying the sunshine

We had another weekend of glorious May sunshine. On Saturday, we celebrated Bob's 30th birthday at an Oakland A's game - Papasan was bummed that Mather's first baseball game was not her home team... go Giants! I was glad that the Cleveland Indians beat the A's - I was born in Cleveland, although I only lived there for 6 weeks.

Clockwise from top left: The Birthday Boy and Miss Magoo

Bob teaching Mather about the rally-cap
Daniel protecting a sleeping Mather with his baseball mitt
Adriane and Mather having a fun time.

On Sunday, I celebrated Mother's Day by sleeping until 9:30! I fed Mather in bed at 6:30am, then Dan took over morning duty. We spent the afternoon in Golden Gate Park. We checked in on the status of the new Children's Playground - expected completion is mid-June. Then we headed further into the park to a bustling playground where we frolicked in the grass and watched wistfully as toddlers scrambled around with the assistance of their parents. Daniel continued his Mother's Day sushi dinner tradition, but this year there were two moms to celebrate.


Mather had her six month doctor's visit today. She is now 13 pounds, 4 ounces and 25 inches tall... still on the petite side for her age, but very healthy and "following the curve".

Those of you who remember my big sleeping post will be excited to hear that we are going to start encouraging Mather to sleep through the night (the normal person definition of sleeping through the night, not the infant version). Mather has still been eating once or twice in the middle of the night. Beginning on Thursday, she will have dinner around 7:00pm and breakfast around 6:00am - no midnight snacks! I imagine it will be pretty rough, so we're waiting until Thursday night since I don't work on Friday.

We also need to fit in two solid-food feedings each day. Up until now, Mather has only had solids at dinner time, except on the four-day weekends when she is home with us. She eats iron-fortified infant rice cereal, apples, bananas, pears, avocados and prunes. Next on the menu are carrots and sweet potatoes. Except for the cereal, I've been making all of her food myself. Most fruits and vegetables just need to be steamed and pureed for her. Bananas and avocados can just get mashed with a fork. She is also learning to drink water and watered-down juice from a sippy cup.

She has definitely mastered rolling-over, her hand-eye coordination is vastly improved, and she can sit up for a few seconds all by herself...