12 weeks!

Our baby girl is 12 weeks old on Sunday... time is going by so fast! The past few weeks have been so busy, I haven't had a chance to get on here and post updates. Since the last post, we've had a few play-dates and the typical baby activities. Then a week after my last post, Mr. Beaver celebrated his first father's day, and baby Beaver was baptized! She got to meet one of her aunts and one of her uncles, and her great-grandfather. It was a really great week, with picnics and visits to the park, her first trip to the zoo, and first dinner out at a restaurant! The next week was a hard one- I had to take a week long workshop for four hours a day, so baby Beaver was with her Nana during that time (besides a quick visit to nurse in the middle of the class). She had a great time, but I was pretty stressed and did not enjoy that time at all! This week baby Beaver had her first trip out of town, to Washington DC. It was also her first professional conference :) She got to meet a ton of pretty smart people, and had many more admirers during a poster session than my poster got. She even sat in on a presentation by the U.S. secretary of education and behaved very well. While in town, she also got to meet her Aunty Nicole, which was very exciting!

During the past few weeks she has kept up on her smiling, making her very popular everywhere we go. She has also had a few laughs, which are so incredibly cute!! She had one huge milestone- her Nana watched her roll over from her back to her belly!! We had noticed her ending up on her belly after a nap (when she had been placed on her back) but nobody had actually seen it happen. I've seen her struggling, but still haven't witnessed it myself. She is holding her head up higher and longer every day, and making so many adorable cooing sounds, as well as a variety of other different vocalizations. Her cranky time at night has seemed to disappear, and she is starting to go much longer between feedings all of a sudden. It is so strange to feel like she is all of a sudden growing up so much!