Anna's 6th week & Eli's activities

While it feels like I just posted, I wanted to get in this week's pictures this weekend so it didn't take 3 days like it did for the last post to get completed! Anna will turn 7 weeks on Tuesday, and in the not too distant future (the 25th) she'll turn 2 months!! Yikes! Time is flying but I must say that I do look forward to her being more & more interactive as Eli is really impatient about her becoming his play buddy :) I keep reminding him that she will someday be able to sit up, babble, and even take a bath with him, which he thinks will be really cool. I know I'll look back & be in disbelief by how fast she grew, though, so no hurry :)

I got some pictures this week of Eli doing some activities around the house. He is pretty hit or miss each day with how he does playing independently. Right now with Anna's "schedule", I try to play with him while she takes her long nap in the afternoons. I admit, though, that also during that time I am trying to do some sort of cleaning so I don't play with him as much as I should. When I wear her in the carrier or wrap during her morning nap Eli & I are usually attending some sort of activity such as music class, toddler town on tour, or just playing outside. For her late evening nap, I carry her in the wrap/carrier, too, and am usually doing dinner, which can be challenging at times. Then sometime after dinner & before Eli's bedtime she becomes fussy-must-be-swaddled girl and I have to swaddle her and calm her and then carry her around for bath & bedtime for Eli. I may be able to actually lay her down in bed so I can focus on his bedtime routine soon as she sometimes sleeps her long stretch at this time. Sometimes is the key word, though, so I usually keep her with me and do bedtime with both kiddos! Anyway, here are pics of Eli first.

Aquadoodle....per Eli's style, he plays with it for awhile, and then wants to dump the water out to see what it does on the mat...or pretty much everywhere! Our boy sure has a way of finding out alternative ways to play with things (did you notice how positive I worded that....I don't usually respond that positive, though :( !)

Eli's Leapfrog Tag Junior....his favorite is the thunder & lightening page in "Mr Brown Can Moo, Can You?":

Our Superman Mr. Eli:

Eli enjoys playing with our neighbor boys. There aren't any boys his age that we know of in the neighborhood, but there are 3 boys ranging from 2nd-4th grade who actually play pretty well with Eli. They are good kids & try to include him in their play for at least a little while. Eli LOVES playing with them & talks about them a lot. He gets along so well with older kids, it's quite amazing to me. One boy in particular he likes a lot (he's the youngest of the bunch at age 7) was outside on Saturday letting his new puppy go potty & we drove by. Eli wanted to go see him so we went to his house but he had gone inside already. I told Eli he could go knock on the door to ask he wanted to play & Eli just walked on up & did just that!! Here they are playing in his room. I really need to invite him over more often as Eli played so awesome & enjoyed his company very much. Eli's just such a social & outgoing kid that playing by himself just doesn't cut it!:

Now for Anna's week. I try to lay her on our tummy time mat more & more but also like to lay her on her back so she can watch the toys:

Here she is really watching the moving toys on the swing....she's really great at tracking. She attends music class with Eli & I & really is doing well tracking & watching the puppets which is great!:

I normally always wear Anna facing me due to her neck muscles not being developed enough. But, she really enjoys walking around with me facing outward so this weekend I tried her forward facing. She did really well for awhile before she got tired, at which time I turned her around facing me. She can only do forward facing a short while, but it gives me free hands during that time!:

Anna also really started to smile a lot more this week. She's been smiling for a couple weeks now, but now they seem more purposeful. They are hard to get on camera, though, as once I pull out the camera, she is distracted by the camera & not me & stops smiling. Here are a few shots & video I did get:

Nothing out of the ordinary planned for this week. I do have my what is supposed to be my 6 week postpartum checkup but somehow they scheduled me a week later at 7 weeks. Oh well. We hope to attend Toddler Town on Tour & music class & just see what else the week holds! Have a great one!