The following are pictures of the newly 3 month old Cormac wearing gifts hand-made by his Great-Grandmother Ellie (the blue blanket, sweater, and booties) and from our friend Tracy Imle (the hat). 

Well, here (pic1) is photographic evidence of the first confirmed sighting of voluntary (by cormac) toy interaction - note the blurred toy indicating its being shaken by the child. I did not put the toy in his hand, but simply laid it in the swing with him. When I heard a rattle ten minutes later I turned around to see this. Now, I don't know if this can be fairly called "play", as he let go of it shortly thereafter and then found himself highly amused by the baby reflected in the swing's mirror (pic2). Still, not bad for a kid 2 months and 2 days old.

Well, the second bottle feeding has now happened and I've swaddled him and put him in the crib.  Here's hoping he decides to sleep for even a little bit.  Of course, just as I wrote that I heard a "wah" from his room.  Dang...

 

>1:15 - gave him his plug and said something that I hope was soothing.  See if that does the trick.  Today's count so far:  2 onesie changes (his), 1 t-shirt change (mine), 1 major barf (hence the onesie and tshirt changes), 2 bottles given, 3 pepsi throwbacks consumed, 2 loads of laundry done.  

 

>8:23 - Erin was home by 5, and both Cormac and I were still here.  Whew.

Looks pretty content for a kid who threw up all over us both 20 minutes ago.