It's true!

Never too early! You had fun wriggling on your belly on this quilt that Rach made you. After some grumpiness you became fascinated by this new sense of your limbs as tools and impediments to movement.
You spend lots of time on your belly mostly resting on us though. This was new!
You have been more wakeful and ravenous like a tiny beast at night - tiring but wonderful! Hoping this burrito wrap swaddle helps you rest. We love you, small friend Sara Bela! Good night.
These are fleeting moments of quiet and rest together. Your dad captures them brilliantly. Everyone in the world deserves these peaceful spaces and times. Let's keep building them together.
The past couple days you have been aware, alert, calm and lovely. We love learning from and with you, Sara Bela. Reading, pointing, singing, laughing, all a joy!
You were very quiet and lovely last night - and this morning you were alert, curious and calm! You are sleeping on my chest in your carrier now, as I fold laundry and eat cereal and have coffee. Hooray for your lovely eyes!
Tiny, you thought last night was a good time for a dance party instead of sleeping, so yr dad hung out with you. He just got up from sleeping in, so you and I hung out this morning. You were cool with your carrier and drowsed back down, but then you wanted to nestle in the crook of my arm! The evidence below, lovely baby:
After you wouldn't go back to bed around 630 this morn - I put you on in your carrier and we did some needed house chores. Sweeping the dining room and kitchen and going out to buy yoghurt lulled you to sleep. Here's the proof in a kitchen sunbeam!
You were two weeks old yesterday and you are bigger and more robust and willful and wonderful every day. So proud of you, little Sara Bela, and we love you so much!
Thanks Susie for filming on your phone! It took 800,000 years to upload but here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNvBFmIxk-M&feature=youtube_gdata_player
I was insanely lax, Tiny, in not posting photos from Sunday's bath. You tolerated it well - curious about the washcloth and warm water - until just at the end, when the cold and tumult overwhelmed you. Post bath, we put you in a hooded duck towel that overwhelmed us with its cuteness. Milestone reached!
Lets see if I can get this cell phone video made by Safta Susie uploaded.
Love, Hannah your mom
Your friend Shy changed you - you were a drean of calm - then suddenly a flood! Shy put this attractive onesie on you and you are now chilling out, watching the evening news.
After an afternoon walk to the Sattelite coffee shop, you are sleeping soundly in your dad's arms!
Last night you kind of wanted to have a being-awake-festival, and I had gotten extra sleep as I went to bed a few hours earlier than your dad, so this morning I experimented with letting him sleep and hanging out with you one on one.
You were a little cranky as you have been struggling with burps and too much air in your wee digestive system, but after lots of burping and eating and a diaper change, I got myself dressed (no small feat), you into your carrier and went downstairs.
Grinding coffee and making oatmeal, not to mention doing dishes, is a contact sport while wearing a drowsy baby! When I tried to spit out my toothpaste post teethbrushing, I hit the mirror and the faucet instead of any reasonable part of the sink, for example. But I was able to get food heated and in front of me, and got to enjoy my breakfast while staring at your gorgeous face.
You are more beautiful and willful and yourself every day, little Sara Bela! Let's see what Sunday has in store.
Love,
Hannah your mama
We'd been waiting months to bring you to a warm day in Clark Park. Now that you're here, it was time for a shay adventure at the Satueday farmers' market!
You woke up a bit early today, so we kept you in your awesome adventurer pajamas and that great knit hat made by Lori who we met in our birth class. So garbed we took you to the park, where your mom and dad enjoyed tacos and doughnuts!
We played pass-the-baby with Rachel and cousin Barbara, and visited with many friendly passers-by - Adam, JJ the photographer, Colleen the midwife, Matty, and many others!
Now we are resting at home and waiting for more visitors layer. Good Shabbos and happy Saturday!
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Check out the cute onesie Sydney gave me! |
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Sara Bela! Stop punching Safta! |
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Sara Bela was pooped after the visitors! |
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Josh and Sara Bela at Kol Tzedek |
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Sara Bela, sleeping after a busy day |
Tiny is sacked out from visits with her Safta Sue, Rachel, and a great stopover from Teresa the supermom neighbor in another great group house. Nap away our little pterodactyl!
Sara Bela - I love watching your dad learn with you. In this video your training as a starship captain began! Can you withstand the centrifugal force? Can you track hypnotizing lights from the sky?
Watch "Sara Bela Science Experiments" on YouTube
We have been swaddling the baby at night and in the morning a bit to help her feel safe and snug and ready to sleep. In the photos below she is in a swaddle called the Miracle Blanket, which promises to keep their arms and legs tucked in and to reset your baby to snoozing mode. We like to sing a song to her about how she is a burrito - wrapping her up is not unlike putting a burrito together.
Our baby is a genius tho - she quickly escaped from the wrap, aka the Baby Straitjacket.
Dad Josh wanted a little more sleep so we put her down in between us in bed. They will nap and I will watch over em. They are snoozing now. So cute.