duck feet!

So much happened today! We went out to lunch with a mother we met last week - Stephanie, and her 3-month old, Zac. We went to Park Chow by Golden Gate Park, had a lovely lunch and then walked in the park. It was cold, so we didn't go too long, but the sun was out and we visited the duck pond and a place where squirrels hang out and wait for you to give them peanuts. Zac is a huge baby, and he has really blue eyes and really long eyelashes. He smiles and laughs a lot - I can't wait until Charli starts laughing.

Charli did 2 brand new things today:
1) She saw herself in the mirror. A few days ago she first started seeing me in the mirror, but she never looked at herself. Today, she looked at herself for a long time!
2) She seemed to recognize the bottle as food. I took one to the restaurant because I thought she would get hungry, and I offered it to her before we left. She mouthed it a little bit, but didn't really latch on, so I sat it on the table (very close to her). A couple of minutes later, she started sucking on her hands and staring at the bottle, so I offered it to her again, and she drank it. How exciting!

We also have a fun game we like to play, called something like "Can I give you a kiss right here?" In this game I say "Can I give you a kiss right here?" and I point to her forehead, and she says "Yes, mommy, I think that would help my neurological development and long term feelings of security", which in baby speak condenses down to "kkkk, uh!" So I give her a big kiss there. Then I point somewhere else, like her cheek, and say "how about here? Can I give you a kiss here too?", and she says "Yes, that would make me feel like a valued member of the family", which condenses down to "nnngoo" or something sort of like that (the phonetics don't translate well into our limited alphabet. Baby speak is a very dense language). And so on. I very much enjoy this game.

And lastly, in case you didn't notice, we tried on a new cute pair of socks. They stick on her feet pretty well! She actually had some other firsts, too, but Brian says they're too gross to put in the blog.

p.s. I posted some new pictures of Charli on the website.