Stuff I forgot to mention yesterday:

Lately BabyBug is OBSESSED with this little jingly fly that has black and white wings and hangs from her vibrating throne. She will sit there for minutes at a time and stare at it, and occasionally give it a little bat with her hand, not unlike a lazy kitten. It’s pretty freaking adorable, especially since she hasn’t really been reaching for stuff very often.

One of the most awesome things Leah has experienced so far: Her Cool Auntie Erin (technically her cousin, but shhhhh) brought her ukulele and played her a song. Leah spent probably 2/3 of the song fidgeting and looking around the room, but I’d say the 1/3 of the song in which she was staring adoringly at Erin was worth all the fidgeting. Here’s a little snippet:

This has also been Fashion Week @ the BabyBug Room. We have been dressing her up in some pretty ridiculous pieces from her fab fab wardrobe, most of which is pieced together from a combination of baby shower gifts and outgrown outfits from Leah’s slightly-older friends, whose Mamas who have some pretty amazing taste in babyclothes. Leg warmers? For babies? BRILLIANT. You try changing a diaper when a kid is wearing not just pants but also what seems like yards of cable and wire and tubing. And she’s at her bare minimum right now! Remember when she also had the vent and the PICC line and the g-tube that was actually a tube? OMG. So yeah. Leg warmers, fab. And yes, also jeans, fab. Sweet little sleepers, fab. Adorable empire shirts that could just as easily pass for dresses? Fab. Thank you so much to everybody who has contributed to The Little Fashionista’s imminent future in footie couture. Seriously, though, you Mamas have been really, really amazing and we are very grateful for the clothes. Even aside from the obvious giant savings in baby clothes (which is Totally Necessary right now), it has brought us a lot of happiness to put Leah in Big-Girl outfits. We have control over so little right now that it’s a big deal to get to pick out her ensemble each morning and her footie jammies each night. So thanks for making that possible.

That being said… I take full credit (credit, blame, you decide) for the two most recent dresses, and am terribly pleased with myself at the fact that the two dresses together were less than $10 (and Gran bought one of them!).

So. These videos purport to have some purpose (e.g. to show off visual tracking or use of developmental toys to encourage grasping), but really? Really? It’s about the outfits.

(Of course, I do think it’s pretty cool that Leah is tracking the camera. I realize she’s probably just tracking me, but it’s still cute. Maybe she sees the little blinking light.)