Quite a Christmas

Sabine got quite the haul for Christmas, especially considering she's not even really aware of the holiday yet!



We had a wonderful Christmas day, starting out with Christmas morning at our house.

The White, Kitson, and Sauser families were all represented.











Then we all headed up to Longmont to have an early Christmas dinner with the Kinlund side of the family.





Sabine kept it together the whole day, we were so impressed. But she fell apart when we got home, and we put her to bed at 6:30. (She's usually going down between 8:00 and 9:00 these days.) The pacifier rolled out of her mouth as I laid her down, and in the time it took me to scramble to retreive it, she was sound asleep. I didn't even need to re-insert it!



Hope you all had a merry Christmas, too!

Christmas Eve

A plainer background for the east coast Wulffs! :-)





We've got about three inches of snow right now; it's definitely going to be a white Christmas in Colorado! Merry Christmas Eve, wherever you are.

Counting Down the Days of Christmas

Since Sabine has more Christmas attire than there are days of Christmas, we're beginning a little early. (And her mom was never one to turn down an extended Christmas, anyway.)

Nine Weeks

Sabine turned nine weeks old today, and two months old on Saturday. In some ways I am astounded by how quickly the time is going...in other ways it's hard to remember a life before Sabine.

We went to the pediatrician today for her two month well baby visit and vaccines. Sabine weighed in at 10 lbs 3 oz, and she was 22 inches long. That puts her in the 31st percentile for weight and the 34th percentile for length. So she's a little on the small side, but well within normal ranges. Her head's circumference was in the 49th percentile, clearly housing a very large brain.

To commemorate the two month mark, I finally got a picture of the elusive smile over the weekend.



We're all looking forward to a short week this week! Happy holidays!

Contenders

While these photos didn't end up making the final cut for the Christmas card, they made it a lot further than the last set I posted!









Have a great weekend!

Outtakes

We're slowly getting in the holiday mood around here. We are trying to put together Christmas cards, and we did a couple of photo shoots to try and get a decent picture of Sabine. She refused to smile for a single shot, despite many handstands and dances from her parents...so the mood we're going for is Very Serious Joy, if you are wondering when you receive a card from us, assuming we actually manage to get them mailed out.

In the meantime, here are a few of the pictures that didn't make the cut. And while Sabine refused to smile, we are certainly getting a kick out of these.


I-Got-Into-the-Eggnog Baby


Face-plant Baby


Chatty Baby


Falling Baby

I think my Mom of the Year chances dropped drastically when I took a picture of my precious child tipping over instead of rescuing her. For what it's worth, she didn't seem to really notice. And she doesn't seem any worse for wear.

Smile photo still pending.

Smile

Sabine has really started smiling a lot recently, although it's been very hard to capture in a picture.



She mostly responds to big facial expressions and high-pitched squeals, (we will do anything for those smiles) so it's been tricky to coordinate focusing a camera while doing said expressions and squealing. Add to that she's usually in her swing, which is swinging back and forth, and it makes for some not-quite-centered and usually unfocused pictures. We're slowly learning to multi-task.



The wide open-mouthed grin remains elusive.

Week 7

Just a couple of quick shots to show off Sabine’s train pajamas from Grandpa.





The fleece ones have been really nice to have since we are getting yet another snowstorm.

And while we’ve gotten several gifts for Sabine over the past several weeks, Sugar is also feeling like she’s getting something out of it since she's a big fan of tissue paper.

Sabine Sourse v. 2.0

Just a quick update to say, you may have noticed the format here has changed. The pink was nice, but that particular template was chopping off the edges of my pictures. So while my vastly more technologically-competent brother was here visiting, I got him to help me create a new template that would accomodate my pictures. I think it looks a little cleaner, too.

I also had him carry many boxes and assemble bookshelves. Clearly that should be what he wants to do on his vacation, right?

Sabine has also made another step forward with her motor skills. She discovered she could suck her thumb after a particularly terrible (well, they're all terrible according to her) bath. Dustin and I weren't sure whether to encourage it or not, but it was really cute, in a very pathetic, upset baby kind of way. I didn't manage to get a picture, but I will keep trying.

Week Six

Happy belated Thanksgiving! We had a nice, quiet Thanksgiving dinner here at our house this year. Uncle Eric and Aunt Diana flew in from California and got to meet their niece.



As always, Tatum demanded he be carried, too, if the baby was being carried. Fortunately Grandpa is happy to oblige our incredibly spoiled cat.


(Sabine appears transfixed by the fuzzy caterpillar under Uncle Eric's nose.)

It was really nice to have the whole White family together for a holiday. This was the first time we were all able to get together for Thanksgiving in a long time, but hopefully it's just the beginning of some new traditions.



And hopefully in the future Sabine will be more agreeable with the whole family picture-thing.

She did get to wear her pretty Thanksgiving dress from one CCC, marking the transition into the 0-3 month-sized clothing. (She has been wearing newborn until now.)





Our good friends Andrew and Kristen were in town this weekend as well, so they stopped by to meet Sabine. It's time to move back to Colorado, y'all.



We hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving, and we're looking forward to more friends and family getting to meet our little girl in the coming months. Happy December!

Week Five

Sabine was in a good mood this morning, so we played around on her fuzzy pink blanket again. She let me get a few good pictures before melting down completely.









A big thank you to the person who got us the kitty butt pants. They're not quite as easy to get on as the sleepers we usually dress Sabine in, but I do love the kitty tush.



Sabine's eyesight seems to be getting better daily. This is great for many reasons, not the least of which is, she is easily distracted these days. There is less fussing and more "oooh, what is that?"-type activity when she wakes up in her swing.


(We like to argue over which Kitson gets to claim her.)

Hang On Little Burrito

Sabine turned one month old yesterday! Time (kind of) flies when you're changing diapers.



This week we've rekindled our interest in swaddling, thanks to THIS book. I don't know if swaddling is really helping her sleep longer, but it does help calm her down more quickly. To any soon-to-be parents out there, I cannot recommend this book highly enough.

Sabine's eyesight is also slowly coming in to focus. She's made real eye contact with us a couple of times, and she's showing an interest in her black and white books. For whatever reason, diaper changing time is turning out to also be her favorite reading time.





We also ventured out one night to go visit a friend, and I couldn't resist dressing Sabine up in her very fuzzy pink winter suit, even though it's still a little big. (Thanks, Nannna Lin!)



One of my very dearest friends Katie was in town this week visiting her family, so she made time to come meet Sabine.



Otherwise, we're just taking things a day at a time, and napping when we can. Have a great weekend!

Snowbound

This weekend we're staying in (I say as though that is somehow vastly different than what we do every day) due to this:





While pretty, it is not ideal for traipsing around with a newborn in tow.

However, this has given us time to hang out as a family. Sabine got to try her first bottle this weekend. She was slightly suspicious; dad doesn't usually do the feeding:



But she's hungry enough she didn't spend too much time dwelling on the issue.



Tummy time continues to be a source of consternation:



As does bathtime:





Roar.



Sabine's friend Sonja came over on Friday, and the two of them hit it off, as much as babies can. We're hoping Sonja's good smiling influence will rub off on Miss Sabine.



Hope everyone had a good weekend!



*Editor's note: The editor in me is embarassed to admit that I made a grammatical mistake in my previous entry. (At least one.) Apparently one does not perform complex mathematical equations so much as one analyzes them. I did not know. And my English had to get corrected by a mathematician. I am going to go hide under a rock of shame now.

On the plus side, Sabine has a fabulous built-in math tutor, who's only a phone call away.