Having Samantha at work for a while today went just fine. She was mostly well behaved the whole day, either sitting alertly in her car seat and watching me, or napping. A number of people stopped by to see her and everyone remarked on how cute she is. I'm beginning to believe that they're not just being polite, and that she really is an unusually attractive baby (albeit one with a serious case of baby acne right now).

She continues to gain in strength with each passing day, and there's more alertness and developing intelligence in her eyes as well. Last night she actually grabbed my finger and pulled it to her mouth to suck on it. (She seemed to prefer it to a pacifier at that moment.) I thought this might be a random accident, but today at the office she repeatedly brought her right hand (and it's little rattling mitten) to her face to mouth the mitten. I wonder if she's approaching the stage where she learns that her hands are part of her body and starts trying to manipulate objects more intentionally.