Sage and her sisters

Sage's older sisters are pretty fond of her.  There's no recent picture of Lise and Sage because I'm always too busy making sure the hugs don't smother the baby to take a picture.  But here are a couple of the oldest and youngest together:

And Sage's arrival has also influenced the play of the older girls.  Babies were always a fun game, but now they're even more popular.  And feeding them is much more realistic... well, except that Lise said the milk comes out her belly button!

Sage recently

Sage has been more awake in the last couple of days; during the days she's getting into a pretty good pattern of eating, looking around for ~20-40 min, then wanting to sleep again.  She is experiencing her first cold right now, courtesy of the big sisters, but doesn't complain much.  I don't want to jinx us by saying this but at this point she seems to be even more laid back than Claire was as a baby.  Our fingers are crossed that that continues!

(sleep smiling, though she is close to really smiling a lot - she gave us one a few days ago!)

-Will

Pre-holiday weekend

We had a good weekend before the holiday weekend.  It included a visit from a high school friend of mine and her family, baking Christmas cookies, and just relaxing.

There was quite a bit of giggling in our house with 5 girls under five-years-old, and Sage didn't even contribute!

Cookie cutting and decorating was a big hit, but cookie eating later was even more fun of course!

(what? no Sage pictures??? Stay tuned for another post tomorrow...)

First Baths

Sage had her first real bath a while ago (yep, third baby - can't remember exact details).  I wasn't really looking forward to her first real bath because both of her older sisters had screamed during the process. However, Sage surprised by being calm the whole time, not giving us any reason to change our view that she's our most laid-back baby yet. She's only 2.5 weeks old though, so there's still time for that to change, but we're hoping it doesn't!

And, for fun, here's pictures of the other girl's first baths.  I guess looking back only one of them cried... my memory is already blending together!  Someday when they ask me about what they were like as babies I'm going to have to hope we have stuff on the blog (or in the baby book - though more likely on the blog) because apparently my memory isn't so great.  Anyway, here's the older two - Lise first, then Claire, who cried and apparently colored my memory of first baths.

More Sage please

Sage is almost two weeks old.  The older she gets, the more we think she looks like her older sisters!  What do you all think? (Feel free to browse the old pictures and point out specific 'look-a-like' examples if you have time on your hands!)

She is a very laid back baby, at least so far, even more so than Claire was. Sage sleeps almost all the time, it seems, though the last two days she has been awake a bit more.  She has only cried a handfull of times, sometimes during a diaper change or when she is strapped into her carseat before the seat gets put in the car and the driving starts - that always calms her down.  Otherwise, she fusses occasionally, and grunts and makes other noises like that a lot.  We are enjoying our time with her, and her older sisters give her lots of hugs and make sure she is tucked in on my lap with a blanket whenever we sit down.