Cute baby photos + sick baby :(

It has been far too long since I've posted, though fortunately Claire has been good about picking up the slack.  It's kind of a good news/bad news post.  The bad news is that last night we had our first emergency room visit.  Mirah had a pretty high fever, but after she got some tylenol her fever came down.  It seems like she probably caught some virus or other.  She's such an awesome baby, that despite not feeling well she really didn't cry except for when they took her temp and when she had to wait for the doctor and was hungry.  Her fever isn't as bad today, so hopefully she gets well soon.

The good news is, since I haven't posted in a while I have a good selection of baby photos to cull through and post.  Some of these are a month old, but their cuteness remains undiluted.

Sleeping baby = overwhelming cuteness.

The next few photos are from a series I took while I was watching her at Claire's office where she was making all kinds of faces.
Mmmm.....can't wait to eat real animal. ;)
You're actually taking photos of this?!
This is probably the biggest gem from the set.
Blue steel...it's not ready yet.
More cute lip biting.  Since she's been teething she actually still does this quite a bit.

-jeff

Roll over

Mirah rolled over from front to back this morning! I don't think she realized she did it, but that's the second time (first I'd seen...Jeff saw her do it a while ago and she hadn't done it again for weeks.) Hopefully she'll do it again soon because she wants to be moving badly (especially when she throws things too far to get.)
Claire

5 Month itch

I don't have a photo to commemorate, but Mirah's 5 months old today and we went to the pediatrician for some shots, and to get a rash looked at. The rash is unidentifiable and we have a cream for the itch. Yippee. (I'm afraid it may have been something from being on the floor in the dance studio. It's always pretty nasty and even though I put down a blanket, don't think there's anything that would keep her clean.) It seems to be getting better on its own anyway, so no biggie.
She's 15 lbs now! Not quite as huge percentile-wise as she was a couple of months ago, but still about 75th percentile, so not a teeny lady either.
I have a bunch of things she's outgrown that I'm going to pass along. My friend Juana just let everyone know she's expecting! She's about 3 months, so her baby will be about a year younger than Mirah. I pulled out all the plain white onesies to give her for now. And some preggie books. If she finds out its a girl we can send more stuff her way. Seasonally, that'll work better than passing them down to the younger baby in the psych dept., who's only a couple months (?) behind Mirah (really warm footie pjs, not much good in Atlanta in June!)
--Claire

Sunday in the park with Mirah

Top photo: Mirah shows off in a sunhat and my sunglasses while we're at the Peachtree Dekalb airport playground this afternoon. We met up with the older kids: Samantha (with Nick and Angela) and Eli (with Ann and Ben) and I think she enjoyed the nice weather and getting to see the other kids (though of course she's not up for playing on the actual playground yet!)
The sunhat actually matches an outfit she wore yesterday at Peidmont Park. She got to sit on the ground and pull her first grass yesterday--it was brown winter grass, but grass nonetheless. I have a photo on my phone but of course it doesn't come with a cord, so I can't upload (not paying for the internet on my phone.)

So we had a nice outdoor weekend--just a week after it snowed! Crazy!
--Claire