Play hard, sleep hard

Hi everyone,
We finally did it- we caught a real smile on camera! Beatrice usually puts on a serious face whenever we try to take a picture. She's been a busy busy girl lately, exercising her body and her lungs with new shouts, shrieks, and squeals. We think she may be starting to teethe as she gnaws on everything in arm's reach and drools rivers. As you can see from the picture, we've gotten her to start napping during the day (of course, it only works with her swing on full blast and all the right accoutrement, but it is a start). Hmmm, other developments? While we used to be able to take her to dinner parties, she now is very aware of other non-mommy and daddy people and has launched into several major crying fits. This is probably related to the fact that bedtime is getting earlier and earlier, but still our munchkin is still a sleeping champion, making all the way to 5 or 5:30am every night! What else? We tried solid food again tonight with most of it ending up on her bib, but we'll keep at it. Oh, we've moved from the baby tub to taking baths in the real tub with M. Fun for all. Bea splashes and splashes. She'll be a swimmer for sure! Ian styled her hair into a great shampoo swirly today -- we'll be sure to get a picture of it next time. All for now.
Love,
Team Beatrice