Today is Ruby's 2-month birthday. To celebrate, she's going to get stuck with four needles (immunizations) followed by a party with six of her friends (we happen to be hosting our parents' group tonight).
Ruby has really had a mental growth spurt in the last week and has become a social being! She smiles a lot now, and not just at her parents. She actively looks around, and at things. She moves more intentionally, and is showing the beginnings of putting her hands where she wants them. All of this makes her much more cute and fun to hang out with.
Ruby, luckily, has very devoted grandparents who love to spend time with her. That means that Steve and I have time to get things done now and again. We're trying to get our house organized (the upstairs rooms moved down to the basement and her nursery set up upstairs) before I go back to work at the end of May.
Steve made a mobile for Ruby out of a coat hanger, some dental floss, and blue tack; hanging from it are pictures of people in our family. I've always heard that babies love faces, but this is definitive proof. Ruby stares, fascinated, at the mobile. She jerks her arms and legs in excitement and chatters. She watches someone's face circle past, and then turns to watch the next person. We can leave her in her co-sleeper, happily watching the mobile, for 15-20 minutes at least. It's so stimulating that if we do that at night, then move the mobile away, she often drops immediately to sleep.