shake, rattle and roll

The shuttle does it twenty seconds after launch, but here at T plus 86 days, the little spacecraft has achieved roll, going over her left side from tummy to back. She's done it twice before starting propped up on a little pillow under her armpits but this was her first time on a flat quilt.

She's also gotten way, way more in control of her hands, being able to bat repeatedly at a dangling or alongside target, explore the contours of objects in her lap, acquire a grasp on soft objects that will helpfully fold into her hand when it runs into them, and drag them to her mouth. (It's gotten harder for me to tell when she's hungry, now that her mouth is interested in the world around her... she sort of reminds me of two minutes into this clip sometimes.) She also, as per the title of this post, will sometimes hold onto and shake her rattle, when I put it in her hand and she's interested. And she has a new little choking-pigeon sound that we think just might be a laugh.

onesie hacking

If Juniper at some point goes nuts for pink and wants to proclaim herself a princess, I'll try to be just as supportive of that as any other enthusiasm, but I'm not in a rush to put the label on her myself. A couple of gift onesies posed a challenge to that preference, but with some transfer crayons and a little work I feel like I've managed to put my own spin on the "little princess" thing:




(Yes, that's meant to be Agatha in the first one.)