6 weeks old: break out the play mat

I know I'm his mother, but how can you not just melt looking at that sweet sleeping face? Be still my heart. 

On Friday Oliver took his first trip to the zoo with his sister's play group and he slept through the whole thing. That's okay, he can't see more than 12" in front of his face anyway. He'll have plenty more visits to the zoo in the future.

Since Oliver does seem to take an interest in studying objects near his face, I got out the play mat. The play mat has interesting things to look at on the mat, and interesting things hanging over the mat. Here he is his first time laying on his back and then later having tummy time on it after his bath.

Speaking of baths, Oliver has taken a bath with his sister a couple times now. I put his big blue tub in one end of the regular tub and Eloise gets the other end. I don't know if I'm imagining it, but he doesn't seem to fuss as much. And Eloise seems to like it, too. No pictures yet. 

Oliver's role seems to be just tagging along at this point. But I guess, what else would it be? This week, we dropped off a meal to a family in our playgroup that just had another baby, went to Eloise's tumbling class, had a play date at our house, had brunch with a friend of mine, went out to dinner with Eloise and Evan, had a play date at the zoo, and today went to a birthday party. I often wear him in the front carrier and he sleeps most of the time, with an occasional break to nurse and change a diaper. And, in the case of brunch this week, sometimes I have to stand up and bounce him for a while to help soothe him when he's fussy. I feel a little guilty at times that he's the tag-along guy but I suppose someday he'll have his own activities, too.