12 weeks: first cold and music class

Today Eloise is 12 weeks old. The end of the "fourth trimester" as Harvey Karp calls it, the author of The Happiest Baby on the Block, which we love. I also have an article given to me by a friend called, "Tricks for Surviving the First 3 Months" that was on the refrigerator until today. Link here, it's on pages 30-31. For those two reasons 12 weeks really feels like a milestone.

Eloise is suffering from her first cold this week. It's so sad. Today is the fourth day. Yesterday I thought she was getting better because she woke up all smiles, but by the afternoon she was fussy and had a runny nose. We spent the afternoon cuddling and she slept on me a lot. She didn't want to be put down. At one point I just watched a booger move in her nose as she breathed. Evan likes to get pictures of Eloise texted to him while he is at work. I texted him this video instead:

In other news, we went to our first infant music class. A teacher from Music Together came to our moms group a couple weeks ago and Eloise loved it. There's a location walking distance from our house so we signed up. Eloise had fun and it totally wore her out. All the songs involve doing something with your baby, like bouncing them, shaking rattles, waving scarves, or getting up and dancing around. Everyone gets a CD of the songs to practice at home. We've already been doing The Itsy Bitsy Spider song that we learned with taps and rubs a couple weeks ago after diaper changes. Now as soon as we sing the first note she bursts into smiles.

Before class, after class

And for no particular reason, some random photos taken this week. We had dinner with some friends who also have kids and we were discussing professional photos and how we don't use our own camera enough. That inspired me to snap a few with the "good" camera, including the one at the beginning of this post.