Advances in Mousedom

The Mouse continues changing, almost daily. She found her hands a few weeks ago and can now grab what she wants. She is getting bigger, though not any more mobile yet. I think her hair is getting longer, though not any thicker. She's looking like a little girl instead of a baby, at least to me.

One of her new things is to lie in her crib and bang both heels on the mattress, said mattress being something like a wooden block, complete with the noise you can imagine. I put a temporary fix to that (towel on the mattress) at 4am this morning.

She doesn't go to bed very much easier, still has some fussy nights, in fact we went for a drive twice this week just to fall asleep. Holding her baby style and walking around the house doesn't work anymore, but I happened upon a new hold which seems to work.



Mouse has realized that playing pattycake can be fun, at least when daddy does it. GP learned the words (well, I spelled them and she wrote them down), but her delivery is pretty bad as far as cadence. Cadence and enthusiasm is what makes it fun. One rendition started "pancake, pancake" until I set her straight (with much laughter).

She got me back via a sales lady at the grocery store, though. The lady was admiring the Mouse (as most people do), and asked GP if Mouse was her little sister. I missed the question, but was able to guess as GP was incapacitated with laughter; we always joked that question would come up some day.

Some more photos of the Mouse with her mouse ears on.