3.25.18 - Clara and Jane are spending more time together

I mean they are together all the time, but they are starting to interact more and it's delightful.

Up until recently, Clara pretty much ignored Jane entirely, except to fuss if Jane tried to take or even touched certain of Clara's toys. But over the last few weeks they've started to play together. Specifically Jane will laugh at something Clara does, so Clara will repeat the action, and it often ends with Clara leaning very close to Jane's face while they both giggle at each other. It's very sweet.

Jane doesn't understand kisses.

Sometimes I get a bit nervous because Clara will do something like pat Jane's head kind of hard or try to lay on top of Jane, but Jane is actually only a few pounds smaller than Clara and seems to handle it fine. In fact she usually finds it very funny.

A week or two ago I was giving Clara a bath, and Jane was so interested and excited about it she was trying to crawl over the side into the tub. She was almost lifting herself off the ground, standing on her very tip-toes to try to reach into the tub. So we went ahead and stripped her down and put her in (in her laundry basket) and she was so delighted. She kept clapping together some of the plastic bath toys and making her excited face and giggling. Clara seemed ambivalent to Jane being there but watched curiously. I think that's a good start to sharing a tub.

Up until today I have not tried to have them nap at the same time in the same room. Usually I'll put Clara down for her nap in the nursery and put Jane down in our bedroom. Today Jane wasn't acting tired and I am tired so I decided just to put Jane in her crib in the nursery while Clara was (supposed to be) napping and see what happens. So far the results have been mixed. On the on ehand neither of them is asleep. On the other hand Jane didn't cry for more than a few seconds, and I can hear them in there laughing and babbling to each other, which I love.

I just went in there to check on them and Clara was standing on the side of the crib and Jane was looking at her, and Jane's crib has Clara's blanket, multiple books and stuffed animals, and a whole bunch of the alphabet magnets. I guess Clara was just offering Jane everything, haha.