Bouncy SeatCassie has grown to about eleven pounds already at eleven weeks of age this past Friday.  I can’t believe she has more than doubled in size.  Generally she is a very good eater, taking about four ounces every three hours.  But lately she’s been cutting back on her 7:00 a.m. morning feeding to two to three ounces of expressed mother’s milk.  She seems to be eating plenty good otherwise, and continues to gain weight.  I suppose she findseating straight from the tap preferable now; I don’t blame her.

The first of the morning feedings are my quality time with Cassie.  We let Mrs Frog sleep in a little bit, as she does all the rest of the feedings, including the deep night feeding at approximately 3:30 a.m.  During the day, we are still trying to stay on schedule for an eat-play-sleep rotation.  Cassie sometimes prefers an eat-sleep-play rotation.  But we’ve been pretty successful most of the time in getting the order of activities right for her.

Our favorite morning activity is the bouncy seat.  After she eats up in her nursery, we go down into our home office and get about twenty minutes or so in the bouncy seat with the control set to bounce.  She likes this bouncy setting much more than the vibrate, and will smile and coo and look around the room.  Cassie absolutely adores this.  Plus, it allows Daddy to rest his arms a bit. 

In a previous blog article, Uncle Frog bragged about not having to use the Bobby Pillow.  But that was when she weighed five to seven pounds.  Now that she’s over ten pounds, these big burly arms can tire out after a while.  I admit it.  The boppy pillow is a fantastic tool.  As is the bouncy seat.  Both are highly recommended by this humble frog.