Ah, another detail I forgot to record. In the last couple of weeks Samantha has shown a remarkable increase in hand-awareness and coordination. She now plays with soft toys you hand to her, and spins the little roller on her crib mirror that makes it play music, and grabs at the toys on the tray of her swing. This is all new behavior for her, but I'm very glad to see it. I was starting to worry when she'd take that next step, but she's taking it in spades right now.

Thinking of cribs, I think we're going to try to move Samantha from the cradle in our bedroom to her crib in the nursery in a week or so, after she's over this cold. While it will be very hard having her in another room (I'll worry about her constantly and probably check on her five times a night for the first month), Amy thinks she'll sleep better if we don't wake her up when we come to bed ourselves or if we're tossing and turning at night.

She's probably right, but I'm still not looking forward to it. I've grown rather attached to little Peep :-)