teaching good habits

As cousin Connor and aunt Robin can tell you, Juli is the master of teaching some less than great habits to the little ones. Wouldn't you if you could get this reaction?

learning to sit

She's still mostly just folding at this point, but here are a couple of her great efforts. It's pretty much all she wants to do right now - along with learning how to blow spit bubbles.

gone shoppin'

Thank god our best friend owns a shop so we could get out without having to be outside. We love Noun and hangin' with Aunt Steph.

lunch with friends

For Dalia's birthday we went to lunch with her friend Neva and Neva's parents, Owen and Cecily. We got some good shots of them interacting and just being plain ol' cute.

Happy 4 Month Birthday Dalia!

So, Dalia turns four months old tomorrow. She is currently being licked by Zoey and in turn petting her. Wouldn't you know it, the camera batteries just died. Oh, well. In any case, here are some of her milestones and a few of her newest photos (unfortunately, some are blurry).

• She weighs 14 pounds, 8 ounces
• She's 26 inches long and has a head circumference of 17 cm (what does this mean?)
• She grabs and holds objects with one hand and sticks everything in her mouth. She is experimenting with non-baby toy options such as spoons (see photo), little cutie oranges, baby carrots (not eating them of course), fingers - always fingers, and my hair. She is quite obviously beginning the teething process.
• She can push up on her tummy and has rolled over once. When I went to get her out of her crib this morning she was scooting around on her back by lifting her legs up and pushing them over to one side.
• She has quite a vocabulary, with sounds like la, da, ah and, her favorite when whining, mamamamamama with pout included. She is practicing her intonation and mimicking ours. She smiles when we say "Dalia". She laughs when we dance with her and when I kiss her naked tummy. Laughing often includes squealing. She loves to be naked so we can't wait until summer. (We can't wait for summer for other reasons as well, namely that winter sucks in Portland.)
• She is a great eater and sleeps around 5 hours straight every night. We go to mom and baby yoga classes often and she almost always sleeps and is a total angel.
• She likes her baby carrier and LOVES to be held. She is such an active baby and wants to be on the move all the time. So much for sitting around on the couch.

Enjoy!

Puff rocker

Mom got a new chair to nurse Dalia in as the one she's been using is really uncomfortable and makes her mad. The new one is shaped in such a way that Dalia can easily sit up in it, which makes her happy! Her monkey also makes her happy so it made sense they would go together.

Daddy time

Well, unavoidably, Dalia loves media almost as much as she loves her dad. Here they are hangin out looking at the computer.