Grabby Gus

Yep, that’s right. Claire has learned how to grab things and she won’t let go. A lot of times when I’m nursing her, she’ll grab onto my shirt. This presents a problem when I go to set her down in her bassinet. Both of my hands are lowering her into her bassinet and her sneaky little hand still has a hold of my shirt. So I have to bend over with her until I have set her down and then very carefully pull her hand off my shirt. Another of her favorite items to grab is Daddy’s headphones. She gets that from me. Sometimes that’s just the only way to get his attention. A couple days ago Levi was holding Claire when all of a sudden I hear Levi scream. I go running thinking the worst, like that our baby isn’t breathing or he dropped her or something. I exclaim, “what’s wrong!?” and Levi said, “Ouch! That really hurt! She just pulled my chest hairs!” And then a minute later he said, “Gross, she has some of my chest hairs in her hand.”

This last Sunday we took Claire to church for the first time. We tried to go last week but she kept me up the night before so then I wasn’t feeling so good. She was so good! She slept right through the first and second hour while Levi held her. But then it was time for Relief Society and just a couple minutes in, Claire started grumbling. So I went and changed her diaper and fed her and then she was a sleep again and it was time to go home. She did however manage to pee on one of her socks while I was changing her diaper. I’ve always known that boys were really bad about peeing when their diapers are off (Thanks to my little brother Eric for peeing on me 3 times when he was a baby) but Claire does it too. And contrary to all laws of gravity, it goes up! And at just the precise moment her little ninja foot wiggled right under the stream. But I should count my blessings that it was a #1 and not a #2.


We're going to the chapel



Today was the nursing support group again. Claire is almost 5 weeks old and weighs 10 lbs 13 oz! It was funny; I was sitting next to a girl I have never seen there before. Her baby girl was 3 months old but she looked super small. I asked her how much she weighed and she said “Oh 10 something” and so I was thinking her baby had to have been a preemie but no, she weighed like 7 and a half pounds at birth. Maybe it’s because Claire is so long but she doesn’t look chubby to me, she just looks healthy.

Something exciting happened tonight. I put Claire on her back on the floor while we were putting away laundry and she rolled onto her side all by herself. She stayed on her side for a couple minutes but never quite made it to her tummy.


Almost on her tummy

I’m really sorry if there are spelling/grammatical errors. I’m usually very concerned with double checking but I’m so sleepy I don’t really care so I am going to bed. Good night!
-Elizabeth