Nathan is 100 days old today.
Can someone please slow down time?

Here are his accomplishments over the last 3 months:
1. Baby grins! To die for.
2. Found feet. See video footage below.

3. Found hands (new discovery! only found them 1 week ago! Still figuring out the larger implications of this discovery.) Using hands successfully to grab hair and to hit people.
4. Started to enjoy thrill rides and to laugh. Twirling, flying and rocking fast are all big hits.
5. He can move by digging in his heels and pushing, scooting around on his back this way. Thank goodness he can’t yet control direction in which he is going.

We baby him way more than we did Elijah, I think. When Wombat turned 100 days, we had already put him in the stroller sitting up! We had already started to feel like we made it out of the newborn stage! We felt like veteran parents! With Wallaby, I feel that he is a tiny teeny baby, strollers are no place for him, we haven’t dared put him in a swing (oh, wait, right, we haven’t found the swing) and I need to continue holding him 100 percent of the time and cuddle him constantly. (Wait and see – when we have our last baby I’ll probably be swaddling that one into his teens. ) But Elijah babies him too – he is very careful with Nathan and makes sure no one makes him cry and that Nathan has what he needs!

We are all in love with him. Happy 100 days Wallaby!

And now… at last – Sonya!!!!(slow loris) from Dmitry Sergeyev on Vimeo.

No menu for last week, because the only thing on the menu last week was my FLU, and the three deliveries of Thai food procured by the men in my life, bless them.  (My approach to flu is to eat food spicy enough to kill me and then pull it back just  little so it just kills the flu and I can sort of crawl through alive.  It works.)

Anyway, flu has been defeated soundly and, now that I have emerged victorious, my thoughts naturally turn to next week’s menu.  I know, I am unstoppable.  Here we go:

Not every day has a full entree because at least one of these meals ends up giving days and days of leftovers.  As always, the line up is brought to you by my What Is On Sale At Whole Foods technique.  And as you can tell, this week it is…. chicken.

Click the image above to see each recipe on my Springpad.

Nathan is going to be 3 months soon, and I haven’t written anywhere near enough about him! He is a very sweet, happy go lucky baby. His ears wiggle when he eats. He loves to sleep. When he wakes up, he loves to see a smiling face and grins right back. He started socially smiling a little before he hit 2 months, and it is the cutest grin ever.

He is long, wearing 6 month old outfits now. He likes putting on a jacket to go for a walk. He likes stroller walks, and he is not the biggest fan of the car.

He is pretty chill overall and is happy to sit in his bouncer for a bit and entertain himself. Lately, he’s entertaining himself with his feet. He discovered them, those mysterious faraway islands of toes. He waves them and is very focused on figuring out how they work.

Like everyone says, the second child is more laid back than the first. Elijah did NOT sit in the bouncer for ANY amount of time, and he also didn’t see sleep as a necessity. You can actually put Nathan in bed awake and he will just go to sleep. BY HIMSELF. I thought that was an old wives tale; no babies can do this. (And when I say ‘old wife’, I mean dr. Weisbluth). But here is my own baby, doing it!

Nathan’s coloring is staying pretty light so far. Everyone says he looks like me, and I think he looks like my Mom, although it could be just his eyes. They are staying the color of lake Tahoe.

Nathan loves hanging out with people, and hanging out with Elijah is the best. He will contort himself in crazy neck angles just to see what Elijah is doing. Also he is clearly coveting Elijahs trucks.

Elijah is the best big brother in the history of big brotherdom. I was sure we’d have some issues with the new baby in the house, and we had not a one. Elijah worries about and cares for Nathan, brings him toys and binkies, helps change diapers and soothe him, and is taking big brothering very seriously. Watching him take care of his younger brother makes me fall in love with my big boy even more, even though that seemed impossible.