Quite nice

Today was gray and rainy. But when the Sprout woke up, there was enough natural light (finally) to get some video of her gradually coming to terms with awakeness.

We find this routine pretty adorable. And there's not too much morning that goes by before the Sprout is ready to start trying out new sounds and faces.

Today the Sprout seemed particularly full of energy, tumbling around on and between her parents. She was all but asking for some tummy time. And she got it.

The Sprout seems to like exercise.

She lets us know how she's doing -- "This is kind of fun!" -- "Ok, this is getting frustrating ..." -- "Why can't I just crawl already?!"

By the end, she was tuckered out. Summer rocked her to sleep, and we tried a crib nap for the first time. She woke up and yelled just a few minutes in, but after a bit of soothing her second go-round went smoothly.

Maybe an hour later she called out and I pulled her over to the rocker to finish the nap with me, but both her willingness to sleep in the crib and the length of her nap seem like good signs.

Then tonight the Sprout got another bath. She rather liked it and was a bit sad when we finally pulled her out of the water and toweled her off.

And finally we lowered the lights and retired to bed. But the Sprout wasn't ready to go down just yet. Rather than yell and fuss, she made a variety of noises and treated us to high-energy smiles.

So here we are, hoping her long afternoon nap doesn't lead to a too-late night. However it ends, though, the day's been quite nice.