Beatrice, Month Three

Month three has been a big one for Beatrice (as are most months when you are an infant). Beatrice started off her third month with the family trip to Ojai for her Grandmother Suzan's 60th birthday party.

Later the same month we drove to the Bay Area to attend Edward and Vanessa's wedding - Beatrice had fun with her other set of grandparents while Dev and I got to enjoy two baby-free nights in San Francisco.

Back in Los Angeles we also had a lot of fun, including attending a children's outdoor performance of Cymbeline and a Bollywood kids' concert, both with Mina and Rosemary. I also joined a mother's social group in my neighborhood and took Beatrice to several "play dates" - though since I have been assigned to the youngest infants' group, there's little real playing, as you might imagine.

Developmentally, the big news is that Beatrice can now really engage with toys and other objects. Favorites include the sleep sheep and the $20 rubber giraffe. But above all, she adores the (somewhat banal) soft book Fluffy Chick and Friends - she will spend more than an hour at a time staring at the book, transfixed, slowly turning the pages.

Playing with the book:

She spends a lot of time staring at and grabbing her feet, trying to stick her entire fist into her mouth, and grabbing other people's fingers and putting them into her mouth. She babbles a lot, mostly saying either "goo" or "ah-goo." She's also picked up the rather distasteful habit of blowing bubbles - but (specious) research shows that babies that blow bubbles often develop superior verbal skills as older children, so blow away!

Also this month, Baby's First Pants, Baby's First Subway Ride (the Gold Line from Pasadena to downtown L.A. with her aunts Mina and Julie), and Baby's First Dive Bar, in Studio City.

Baby's First Pants:

Overall she's an incredibly smiley baby, spending most of the day smiling, laughing, and looking around contentedly.

Some video of Beatrice waking up in an excellent mood, as usual (she really starts rocking out around second 45):

And just this morning she rolled over for the very first time! and burst into tears immediately afterward. Sadly I missed catching it all on film, but I did catch her frantically clinging to the mat to make sure she doesn't ever do it again...



As always, you can find more baby photos on Flickr and Facebook.