This past weekend my parents came up to visit, and Mara really enjoyed spending time with her grandparents. Her grandmother sang her lots of songs and her granddad took her for lots of walks! We tried to fit as much as possible into just a couple of days. Ever since they left, Mara’s main activity has been napping (when they were here, she didn’t want to miss anything by sleeping during the day!).
It’s been an incredibly busy couple of months. The move into the house started at the end of July and kept going for the first two weeks of August. It feels like it’s been ages already since we’ve been here, so I have to keep reminding myself that only a few weeks have passed and it really isn’t bad that there are still boxes to unpack. Thankfully, Cullen and my cousin Colette were able to help us with the first stages of unpacking. We also had other relatives come up over the course of the month to help us get settled a bit (and to play with Mara).
Last week Mara held a rattle for the first time. She also shook it a bit, which made me very excited! A few days later I saw her pass the rattle from one hand to the other, but I think this actually happened by accident since it hasn’t happened again.
Here’s some evidence (or a reminder for me, really) that at times Mara does sleep soundly:
(I had to stop mid-post because Mara just woke up from another nap.)
This time next month we’ll be in our new house already, so this is likely the end of me taking photos of this little tree.
Mara was with me for this one!
Mara turned three weeks old this week, surpassed her birth weight, and, we bought a house!
Hectic times, to say the least. We weren’t expecting to get a house so soon but the timing just seemed to work out this way, much to our surprise.