16 weeks old: rolling!

Eloise hit a major milestone this week: she rolled over! She'd been getting close for a long time and then one day over she went all the way. Unfortunately she can't roll the other way yet so she gets stuck on her tummy. Hopefully that'll happen soon. No more swaddling for Eloise!

The big moment

Like many babies, Eloise is not a fan of tummy time. She'll only tolerate being on her tummy for a couple minutes before filing some complaints. I try to make it interesting by getting down in front of her, or putting toys in front of her, but the time she tolerates it the most is at our two play groups each week (music class and moms group) because she likes to look around at the other babies. So, I tried putting her in front of the full length mirror upstairs. Turns out one baby isn't as interesting as many babies, but it works so we'll keep doing it.

You look familiar... have we met?

Eloise attended her first race to support me last weekend, my first postpartum race. It was a costume race and she wore her cute little mouse costume again.

Pre-race

Heading to the car

We tried putting Eloise in the exersaucer this weekend, too. She's not quite big enough to touch the bottom so we put it away for later, but she did enjoy the toys.

Exersaucer

And finally, I read the manual for our stroller and figured out that Eloise doesn't need to be in the carseat anymore. We went for our first walk without the carseat attachment to music class this week and it was a success. It's such a big stroller and has a weight limit of 70 lbs so it'll fit her for a while. When we were coming home a lady said, "Oh, that's a baby! She's so small!" And I said, "She does look small in this big thing, doesn't she?" And she added, "I thought to myself, 'How cute, she's pushing around a little doll'" to which I replied, "How strange!"

My little doll