Smooth and deliberate

All grabbed toys end up in the mouth!

E has really started discovering her hands.  It's completely fascinating to watch.  Where before she could hold a toy if you pried open her little fists, placed said toy in fingers and then closed her fingers around the toy, now she is doing it all on her own. 

What are you looking at Monkey?

Earlier this afternoon she and I spend a good half an hour of me just holding one of her rings up in front of her and her trying to grab it.  Her motions are becoming smoother, no more wild flailing about.  Nope, now you can see her focus in on the toy and deliberately move her clenched fist to it, then concentrate even more on getting her fingers to open and close around the toy.  Often she ends up just grabbing the toy between two fists but even that is a much more smooth, deliberate action than what she'd had before.


Dressed, fed and ready
for daycare! All before
6 am!

It seems that parenthood moves apace.  We are a smoother working machine.  No longer do we wildly flail about at night when we get home trying to ensure that everything gets done.  Whoever gets home first starts dinner.  Ken washes the bottles while I feed the baby.  I clean up while Ken gets baby time.  We both set out our clothes for the next day.  I rarely have to check my checklists anymore.  E passes out like a light switch around 8.  There are still bumps of course, like tonight with daylight savings time and a rough night last night (she is still Havoc afterall), I'm blogging and staring at a very wide awake baby.  So it's not a completely smooth machine but so much smoother than before, much more deliberate.  I guess we are all growing.