Jack worked 7a - 4p. Clara was up around 6am and he took her at first, then I took over as he got ready for work. She went back to sleep around 7am and didn't really get back up until 10:30am, so I got to sleep in too, which is nice. Even after that she ate and I changed her and then she slept another couple hours, giving me time to do plenty of other things. I made a huge bowl of pasta salad and cleaned the kitchen. I did a little bit of paid work for the professor I work for. I got to pump in peace without her getting bored or fussy. It was really nice.
When she did finally get up she kept lifting her hips in the air and twisting to and fro, something we've noticed the last couple days. Jack mentioned earlier that it might be her attempt to start rolling over. Sure enough, only 10 minutes after I sent a picture of her hip twists to the grandparents, she rolled to her side and back! I was clearly more excited about this than she was, as she barely even reacted and just kept gumming her fists, but still, it was awesome. I quickly got the video camera and was lucky enough to capture her doing it a second time so that I could show Jack later when he got home. :)
So exciting!
She also started to take more swings at the little jungle animals hanging off her play set. At the beginning of the day it looked as if she was doing this almost accidentally, but by the end of this evening it was decidedly purposeful, which is pretty awesome. It's amazing watching her explore and learn already. One of the baby books I read while I was pregnant described babies as "little scientists" who experiment with everything as they figure things out, and that's exactly how I like to think of Clara.
Also, sometime today the FB page A Mighty Girl posted a link to their top 100 book picks for mighty girls. I got some time to peruse that link, and from there other links on Amazon and Goodreads, and I ended up picking out a bunch of books I would like to read to Clara as she gets older. I'm really excited about some of them, especially one called "You Are Stardust." One of the parents who reviewed it included some pictures of the illustrations, and it looks really beautiful. Can't wait to save a little extra to buy it for Clara. :)
Picking out all those books got me excited about reading to her, so we spread out on the living room floor and I read her "Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs" and "I'm Not Going To Get Up Today," both childhood favorites of mine. Obviously she can't understand any of the words yet, but she sat quietly and looked at the pictures the whole time for both books, which I think is impressive for one so little. I hope I'm already instilling a love of reading in her. I'm definitely instilling a love of reading to her, for me. Haha.
I feel very lucky to get to be home with her and watch her grow like this, and very lucky that Jack works so close by and can see her on meal breaks and doesn't take long to get home after work. Such a great phase in our lives.
Denny and I have recently realized how we are neglecting to read to Malcolm. Part of it is we're busy, part of it is he is always on the go and never seems interested in slowing down and reading books, but both of these are still not good enough reasons to not read to him. Something I hope to work on soon.
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