7 weeks old...

Karina is leaving the newborn phase and now turning into a "real" baby. She seems to recognize her mommy and daddy's faces, but really responds the most to Eliana. She really likes her big sister and doesn't seem to mind it if Eliana encroaches on her personal space.

Karina is starting to go longer between feedings at night and we hope that within the next several weeks she'll go through the whole night needing just one feeding.

If fussy, usually the following work to soothe her: rocking up and down, loud white noise, sitting on the swing on our front porch, and sucking on her pacifier. Here she is sucking vigorously on her Soothie.



Eliana continues to entertain us. We encourage her to eat her 5-a-day, but the only vegetable that she'll eat are cucumbers. And from the cucumbers, she'll actually only eat the seeds. It's her favorite part and she won't eat the fleshy part of it.

She's a resourceful little scavenger. The other day, dinnertime was approaching and she was getting hungry. So she pulled out a snack: 2 pounds of string cheese.

Eliana has been asking us for awhile to sign her up for a "sports" class that she has seen other children participating in at the local community center. We finally did; here she is getting ready to go to her first day of class, or "team" as she calls it. She is especially proud of her new running shoes!

Here you can see the extent of what goes on in a toddler sports class...combined with Ellie's distracted excitement to see Papai (Daddy) in the middle of the day.