Jane Update

I guess my Mommy called today and wanted to see some new pics of Jane (I don't know why and I know she's probably the only one). So we will oblige. Jane is now 2.5 months old. It seems that we understand her needs much better than we did with Sarah or Nathan. Part of this is probably the result of being more experienced parents, but part of this is the result of the great information from Dunstan Baby Language (this is great info if you've never heard about it and although some people don't agree this exists, we've been impressed with the results and how it seems we are able to recognize and meet the specific need that Jane has based on the sound that she is making. Mary is much better at recognizing and distinguishing the sounds, but it seems to be working well, we recommend it to any mom-or-dad-to-be). Sometimes, when Jane is upset we just plop her on her back and she's content for a while just looking up and wriggling on the ground, making lot's of adorable cooing noises. She is also our best sleeper... by far. We discovered very early that she likes to sleep somewhat upright, so this has put her in her great new babyswing, which is out in the living room and where she sleeps at night and during the day. This has allowed for one thing that we wanted to have happen with her: sleep amidst noisieness, which is nice that we don't have to always be "shushing" Sarah and Nathan... unless they're too loud for our own tolerance level. Around two - three weeks she was sleeping through the night (to bed between 10-12 and up between 6-8) and this continued until about two weeks ago. Currently, she gets up usually about once at night, but typically only for an hour or so. Though, occasionally she still sleeps 'til 6-7, which is great. This has allowed Mary to avoid some of that post-partum depression stuff, which has been great! It also helps that I'm around A LOT more then I was with Nathan since I'm not in graduate school! Anyway, Jane is a little doll and her big sister still adores her and always wants to help, and Nathan is warming up to her... a little at a time. These are all recent pictures of her that we took. Nothing special beside the object of the photograph. She's in my lap for all the pictures... a place she seems pretty content in.



Even though she's got slobber stuff running down her chin in this last one, I think it's a cute pic!