Learning to Crawl

Linnaea is holding her head up and starting to make efforts towards crawling. Here are a couple of videos of her efforts, guest-starring Rodeo.

Portrait

Contemplative

Linnaea Kling -- The Musical

Starring Lola, Mama, and of course Linnaea!

Video of Lola and Linnaea

New pictures

Portrait

Nap time!

Week 2

The Coming Child arrived at 11:01 am, December 17th, happy and healthy. Mama and baby are doing fine.

Linnaea prefers nights to days, which is a bit hard on her parents, but we hope she'll get on our schedule soon. We will continue to post weekly photos, now of Linnaea! The inch worm is courtesy of her Auntie Cathy and cousin Maggie, who visited us last week and provided a ton of help and support.

Homecoming clothes

Today Ivy packed a 'go bag' for when it's time to go to the hospital. One of the items was a set of clothes for Linnaea to wear when she goes home:

The blouse is courtesy of our friend Echo, the pants were a gift from Ivy's Tita May and Tito Leo.

Car Seat Day

Last week I picked up an infant car seat, and today we decided to set it up. The instructions suggested we use a cat to practice.

For a variety of reasons, this seemed like a bad idea.

Fortunately, our friends Justin and Mari gave us Sheepie at the baby shower, who agreed to stand in for Linnaea:

After a bit of fuss, we got it installed:

Ready for a cruise!

Week 36

Week 35

"She means the chair"

Today at the grocery store, I ran into our friends Dave and Mary, and their daughter Ella, who is 8 or 9. 

Dave asked if we could use a gliding-style rocking chair, I said 'absolutely!' Mary joined us in the ice cream aisle, with Ella right behind. 

"They'd like to take the rocking chair," Dave told Mary, who expressed excitement that they would free up some space. When she mentioned it to Ella, she was crestfallen. 

"I like that chair!" she said. 

Mary explained the situation. "Jim and Ivy are going to have a little baby soon. Wouldn't it be nice for them to have it?"

Ella brightened a little. "Okay. And maybe I could come visit!"

"Yes," I said. "That would be very nice. You could come and visit our daughter, and our dogs..." 

Ella had turned away to look at something on one of the shelves. 

Mary turned to me and whispered: "She means the chair."

A new playmate

This week we learned that two of our good friends, Chris and Jessica, are also expecting. We figured we were going to be the only ones in our social group to become parents, at least for the foreseeable future, so we worried a bit about drifting away our friends.

But now we'll have company. And more importantly, Linnaea will have a playmate!

Week 34

Week 33

A little more detail

As you can see from the weekly pictures, Ivy is big! Maybe... too big. The ob-gyn was concerned that Linnaea might be on the large side, which could make for a more challenging delivery.

So, today we went in for another ultrasound, and learned Linnaea is about the right size, an estimated 4 pounds 10 ounces, which during week 33 puts her at about the 60-percentile for size. The doctor estimated she might be 7 1/2 to 8 pounds at delivery. Ivy's size is due to a higher than normal amount of amniotic fluid, which we're told is nothing to worry about and a sign that the placenta is doing its job well.

She is head down and facing towards Ivy's back, just the position we want her in for delivery, which  isn't far away!

And one last discovery... the coming child looks like she's going to have a head full of spiky hair (look for the arrow):

Week 32 with a Rodeo cameo

week 31

Week 30