Germain Visit

Dear Henry -

We were busy this last weekend - Uncle Jeff, Addie, Jasper & Papa Mike all came to visit! On Friday we wanted to head to SF & tour Alcatraz. Your dad & I decided you might not appreciate the tour...and since Nana is on spring break, she agreed to hang out with you for the day. So you missed out on SF - but you got spoiled & got to meet Pam & Gloria at her house. Alcatraz tour was sold out...so instead the big kids got treats & we headed over to the beach in Marin.

The rest of the weekend we hung around here & you got lots of good time to get to know everyone. You hung out on the front porch for quite some time in your bouncy chair, pretty sure you felt like part of the conversation with Uncle Jeff & Papa Mike - so were quite happy.

The girls were connected at the hip most of the weekend - crafts with Gran, a picnic on the lawn & getting cozy - they let you join in for a little cozy time while they watched a movie in the morning. Notice Lainey gets closer, closer, closer....this is how you & Lainey cuddling usually works. You look a little scared in the last one, wimpers started a few seconds later & Dad swooped you up before full on tears, lol.

Jack & Jasper were out all day on skates, bikes, scooters, etc with the rest of the neighborhood boys. Was fun to see the cousins instantly click & have a blast goofing off & hanging. This was the first hot weekend of the year - and the big kids found their way to the swimming hole near us - you missed out on this one too - maybe in a few years!




We wrapped up the weekend with meal of Peninsula Creamery shakes & pizza at the park. Before the big kids ran off to the playground - I managed to convince all the kids to do a photo with Granfeather....a little challenging to get everyone to smile for the same photo!

Your main interest these days is your hands. Most often they are in your mouth, you try your best to get the entire fist in your mouth & to produce as much slobber as possible. You also spend a lot of time just staring at them & checking out your fingers and crazy shapes you can make - maybe you are starting your hippie dancing practice now :-) Even when you are resting, you like to clasp your hands together & rest them on top of your belly (which is rather impressive these days).



You love to have conversation with me, doesn't really matter about what - you will listen as I describe how I'm folding the laundry - your main concern is that you are sitting close by and I talk to you a lot so you don't feel like you are alone. If I am silent too long (say a minute, lol) - you give a few panicky cries as my warning - and usually are content if I quickly pick up the conversation. I can get a lot of smiles from you now when we are chatting.

You continue to impress us with your will to sleep - to mark 10 weeks old you eliminated another feeding - so now you go to bed about 8, sleep until 3-4ish, eat quickly in your sleepy zombie state & then go back to sleep until 7ish. Its been about 2 weeks that you've been doing this most nights - and I love it! The best part is that I don't feel obligated to go to sleep the second you do - I can stay up "late" until, say, 9:30 and hang out with Dad - and then I still get a good night sleep. Next we need to work on an easier time getting you to go to sleep w/o being rocked & sshhhhed - but I'll take this for now :-) When you wake up, you don't imediately cry of hunger - and I've caught you a few times gazing up from your crib:

Can't believe we are almost to 3 months!

Love, mama