Sunday was the first time that Caroline got to go for a "ride" in the Baby Bjorn baby carrier.  We took a short walk in the neighborhood and Daddy was the one that carried little Caroline in the Baby Bjorn.  She fussed a little bit, but by about halfway through the walk she had calmed down and fallen asleep.  It looks like we'll get good use out of the Baby Bjorn carrier.

We stopped and chatted a bit with our neighbors up the hill, the Damata's.  We got a chance to see 3 of their 4 kids (their baby was in his crib), and both Lamar and Shae.  It was nice visiting with them; they're good people.  Shae has a small home business and she made a nice little baby blankie as a gift for baby Caroline.

Caroline turned 6 weeks old on Thursday (4/20).  Sometimes it is very hard to believe that she's already 6 weeks old.

They say that the "fussiness" reaches a peak around 5-6 weeks and after that it starts to get better.  We're finding that is probably pretty accurate.  She's been inordinately fussy the past week, and has been very hard to get to sleep in-between feedings.  This makes her over-tired and then she starts crying and screaming.  We're hoping that the 5-6 weeks peak is on the money and that she starts improving soon.

Wow, Caroline slept a long time last night, giving Mommy and Daddy the chance to sleep as well.  She had her last evening feed at around 12 and she went to sleep shortly after that.  Daddy waited until she was good and asleep and brought her up to the bedroom and placed her in her bassinet around 1:15.  She slept from then until around 6:30.  I believe that's the longest stretch of continuous sleep that she's had and it is certainly the longest time she's gone in-between feedings.

This is a good sign for her development, and she may be starting to sleep throught the night much sooner than anticipated.  Of course, she's doing lots of things sooner than expected.  Heck, we half-expect her to be solving differential equations before she reaches her first birthday...  he he he

Today after I got home from work I noticed that when I was changing Caroline, she would stare intently at me.  In fact, when I moved around the pack-n-play to put the dirty diaper into the diaper champ, she turned her head towards me and continued to stare quietly at me.  When I moved back to the spot where I need to be in order to put a new diaper on her, she moved her head back.  She's also starting to use her hands much more often.  Sometimes while breast feeding, she'll put her hands on Krista, and she's also starting to put her hands on me when I'm holding her.

Krista used a new trick today to get her to calm down some.  She put her in the carseat, sat it on the dryer, and turned the dryer on.  This immediately calmed Caroline down and she was asleep within minutes.  We're going to have to remember that one.