For people who claim to prefer spending their time at home, we seem to end up spending a lot of time at holiday parties. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with this, in my opinion. Holiday parties are a great place to get some free snacks.
It’s also good for free babysitting. Show up, pass your baby off to someone else and enjoy the party. In my experience, your friends will gleefully spend as much time as is available cooing and making faces at the baby, freeing you up for more adult activities, such as eating free food and ducking your parental responsibilities.
We’re lucky to have so many good friends.
Logan will be three months old on Saturday. In some ways, it doesn’t seem like it’s been that long, while in others, it feels like he’s taking his own sweet time growing up. I’m split between wanting to enjoy these brief moments of relative calm prior to a mobilized infant, and a strong desire for him to finish growing up so he can do all my household chores.
As Logan becomes more aware of his surroundings he moves through a number of cognitive actions and practices. As an anthropologist, I’m fascinated by his cognitive development. Learning to grab the loose material on his shirt, seems like something of a victory to him, even if all he can seem to do with the discovery is jam the material in his mouth. Nearly every day he discovers his own feet, and seems genuinely surprised each time.
The last few days I’ve been attempting to teach him to get his thumb in his mouth, so he can self satisfy his oral comfort and relieve his mother and I of doing so. This has turned out to be a significant challenge of dexterity for everyone. He’s more than capable of sticking his thumb out from his hand. Once it’s placed in his mouth, however, it causes such a paroxysm of spastic joy, that he clenches his fist in glee, and forcefully ejects the thumb.
I’m sure that with repeated practice, we’ll all get the hang of it.
Here are some Holiday pictures of babies that are not mine, but are still cute.
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Look at how big he is!