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Just chillin with Yaya, y'all!

I love my new bumbo!

Just chillin with the hungry caterpillar in my bumbo. No big deal.

Dinnertime!

With her new bumbo Louisa can sit up!

Party Girl

Lulu in her pretty party dress from Aunt Lizzy at Christmas dinner

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Around Louisa's World in 88 Days

Louisa turned 88 days on Sunday. To celebrate, here's a retrospective of the almost-three-month-old!

The Dog Days of Autumn

With KJ on a 24-hour stint at the hospital, it's "Daddy Day Care Day!"

Every time I have Louisa for a full day, I feel a little bit more confident. That's not still very confident, but figuring out how to do the "normal" things (e.g., brush teeth, walk dogs) while also taking care of a baby has the same attraction I find in solving puzzles. Today's puzzle: How to take the dogs outside--on the front lawn, which they're not used to (because of the roofers blocking the back door)--without the hassle of dressing up Louisa and putting her in the Baby Bjorn since she looked pretty calm and might fall asleep anyway.

Solution: Pop Louisa in the Cradle 'N Swing and let her watch the SportsCenter Top Ten Plays.

I'm not too proud of the solution, but it worked. (Good thing I remembered the keys so I could get back in!)

The whole process would have gone faster--and more smoothly--if the dogs hadn't barked like crazy to everyone who passed by (and we live on a high-traffic road). In lieu of coal in their stockings, dear Santa, please give each dog a voicebox-ectomy.

Roofers

Roofers arrived around 9am this morning. The foreman says they'll be here for at least three days. They've blocked the back door with a tarp, so we have to go in and out through the front door, on the opposite side of the house from the driveway where we park our cars. It's a bit inconvenient, but hopefully everything will be fine with the roof and back to normal by Monday.

In the meantime, the banging on the roof is constant and loud. But that hasn't stopped Louisa and Aunt Lizzy from sleeping through it most of the morning (That's a good thing)!

Winston and Benni are not exactly on high alert, but they are generally curious about all the noise that seems to be taking place from all directions. And they did NOT feel comfortable about going down the steps to the front door this morning in order to go outside. They've never been allowed down that stairway, and they pulled against the leash when I tried to coax them down.

Speaking of not wanting to go through the front doo, Lizzy forwarded the following video to me. It's tres amusant (very amusing).

(above video from user "andrey7936" on YouTube.)

Paging Doctor Fussypants!

This video is pretty much the same all the way through. She never completely loses it. (That happened a few minutes later.)

Ooooh! Ooooh! (Heh Heh Hee!)

Louisa looks more and more like a "real" baby (as opposed to a newborn) every day--which is good because she is getting older, despite some of her mother's wishes. She is "filling in" as she gets bigger, as Papa C said when he and Grammie last visited and took Louisa on a 3-mile walk down to Blue Back Square, back up Quaker Lane and around the Vanderbilt estate.

Here's Louisa earlier this afternoon, cooing and responding to her Mommy!