date night

Kevin called me at work Friday and asked me out on a date. Isn't that nice?

We first stopped by Amy and the gang's on the way out. I demonstrated the mai tai on baby Cooper, and I'm talking about the baby carrier... not the alcoholic beverage. Little Coop had the hiccups, but seemed pretty comfortable in the carrier. Maybe the mai tai carrier tastes a little like a mai tai drink, as Coop seemed to enjoy sucking on one of the straps. Kevin held the baby for a while in the recliner, and he looks so sweet smelling baby smells and touching his soft little feet.

We went out for Oley's Pizza (classic double crust pizza place in the Fort) and hung out at Barnes and Noble for over an hour until our movie time. It's amazing how quickly time goes by while looking at books in a bookstore. We haven't spent as much time as I'd like to these last few months working on learning baby signs, so we sat down with a baby signs book signing back and forth to each other. We can sign and recognize more, milk, eat, drink, dog, hurt, juice, need diaper change, cookie, help, no, yes, apple, banana, and that's about all I can think of that I KNOW we know. For anyone not familiar with baby signing, it's based on ASL but made a little more simple for young children. You use the signs when you talk to your baby about what they want and what you wants. The children will pick up signs much more quickly than they learn words. By using signs, we hope that Hannah Claire will be able to express herself more quickly and feel comforted that we can take care of her needs and make her feel secure.

We're also reading books on photographing babies. It's been a month since our last update on Hannah Claire. We're hoping to hear something about our photogenic little dumpling this month and not be skipped over again. I really want to hear confirmation that she's sitting up, and wonder about what solid foods she's been introduced to already... longing to take pictures of a messy Hannah Claire with multicolored baby food splattered all over.