Kivrin enjoys a few clothes-free minutes between outfits. She’s just discovered her feet and toes this week, and I know she already wishes she didn’t have to wear socks anymore.
Look at this new skill! It doesn’t take much support to keep her upright now, if she is interested in sitting up anyway….
1. Pet the kitty fur.
2. Grab the kitty fur.
3. Watch the kitty leave.
4. Play with sock instead.
Kivrin’s Christmas shirt says “Daddy’s Favorite Present”
Just call her Rudolph, jr.
Give her a little red nose and she is ready to guide the sleigh and help Santa bring you lots of toys and games!
(Thanks to Gramma Mary for the cute and comfy reindeer ears. I think she gave these to us before we had a baby….but apparently we saved them until we had a small helpless person with whom to play dress up!)
Kivrin sat on Santa’s lap at the library holiday party on Saturday night.
The party was at the Gage Park Carousel, and we all went for a ride together.
We tried out the carousel horse before the ride started, and then decided the comfy bench would be better for riding with an unpredictable infant.
It’s hard to say what Kivrin liked best – the spinning motion, the bright lights, the garish Christmas music….or maybe just being held by mom and dad!
Friday night, Kivrin was all bundled up. I forgot to put a toy in har carseat, but she found her fingers amusing so it was all okay.
Kivrin doesn’t use a pacifier, but she does indulge in thumb, or fist, or knuckle, finger sucking when she needs to soothe herself.
I wasn’t sure I could pull of my annual National Novel Writing Month tradition with a 2-3 month old baby at home, especially since I went back to work in the middle of the month, but with the awesome support of family, lots of typing on the iphone, the laptop and in random emails to myself, and a seriously productive last week, I did it! (50,881 words in 30 days, and a semi-coherent story about a teenage boy taking a semester off from high school, moving to Collinsville, and discovering that his neighborhood is affected by mine subsidence, and falling in love right at the end, of course.)
Luckily for me, Kivrin is a wonderful baby and I was able to write while she was napping, or eating, or amusing herself, or playing with her daddy. I’ve heard from my friend that even though this year seemed challenging, trying to do Nanowrimo with a one-year old will be even more difficult! Anyone want to do some babysitting next November?
Now that all of my computer time won’t be sucked up by frantic fiction writing, I’ll fill in with as many photos and videos as I can from the past month — we were still taking cute pictures, I just didn’t get many of them shared yet!
This is Kivrin’s first snow– she’s in her carseat and zipped up in the “bundle me” but hopefully she can enjoy snow more when she’s older!
Aunt Leigh Anne has lots of experience with snuggling cute babies, and Kivrin appreciated all of the snuggles they shared during Leigh Anne’s visit. The only question is — did Leigh Anne snuggle Kivrin to sleep? Or was it the other way around?
Up until this point, we were always concerned about our two cats taking an interest in the baby….
now we are starting to pay attention to the interest that Kivrin is taking in the two cats. She doesn’t notice them all of the time (they don’t have flashing lights, rattles, or play music) but when nothing else is going on, her eyes follow them across the room, and if they happen to get close, she does her best to pet them.
I’ve been reading her the book “Touch and Feel Kittens” to practice, although the real kitty fur is much softer, and easier to grab, than the little fake patch of fur in the book.
Who is that cute baby in the mirror? It’s Kivrin!
Simple though it seems, this is the best game ever. She loves it!
This mirror is above the changing table, which makes diaper changes take longer, but they always end happily in play.
Unlike money, babies do in fact grow on trees. (As made evident by this photo.) Alternately, we got camera-happy over Thanksgiving….
Kivrin playing “So Big” with her Grandpa and Grandma while we visited them for Thanksgiving.
Kivrin Anne 
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