Okay, third happiest time of day.

Anyway, what we usually do is have a sing-a-long! For donating at BloggersForACure, The Lovely Mrs. Davis sent us a set of 4 children’s CDs, 3 of which are by Elizabeth Mitchell (On her site, click on “flower” or “sunshine” and then “listen” to hear  some tracks).

They are GREAT!

So, as the nanny is closing the door behind her, I lay Tatiana down on a blanket near Baby’s First Boombox, put in a CD, and, on my hands and knees, put my face about a foot away from hers and sing some duets with Ms. Mitchell.

Some days, Tatiana’s already a bit tired out, so she just stares up at me, smiling from time to time… but on other days! Oh, on other days, she’ll start singing along with me!

Mostly in the form of “agagagagag” or “pfffvvvvt”, but it’s music to my ears. Ain’t never been better lyrics written than those.

Here’s a video from a couple of weeks ago (when I was still learning the words):Hmmm… watching it again, I guess I’m the more entertaining part of it… but she’s still adorable.

Click here to view the embedded video.

We sing a lot around here. Tatiana has a bathtime song, a bedtime song, and a whole slew of made-up nonsense songs throughout the day. Sarah is especially good at making up lyrics—all of that improv experience… and genius. I, on the other hand, am very good at highly-repetitive 5 word songs like: “Diaper Change Time”.

It goes:

Diaper change time!
Diaper change ti-ime!
Diaper change time!
Diaper change ti-ime!

It’s a catchy little ditty.

This month Mindy started coming in to watch Tatiana during the day, allowing Sarah to return to medical school and allowing me to keep my home office a home office instead of a home office/nursery.

As Sarah noted in her last post, it’s really hard to hand littlebabygirl over to someone else in the morning, but it’s somthing that our lives necessitate.

It’s still nice to work from a home office, though–every hour or so, I can pop my head out, say hi to littlebabygirl, and get back to work. I think it’s nice for her to have some continuity with me and Sarah, and it’s nice for me to be able to go out, see her smiling face and lend a little perspective to my day.

In the meantime, Tatiana has learned a new batch of tricks:

1. Sleeps on her side!

2. Rolls onto her tummy!

3. Sleeps on her tummy!

4. Sing-a-long with Daddy!

5. Looks at us and cries when she wants something instead of just crying. (Actually, she cries very little these days: When she’s overtired, or when she’s rolled over onto her tummy and doesn’t want to be there anymore.)

(And, of course, we have more pictures up at flickr. We probably update that much more frequently than the blog, lately…)

Her Auntie Jessica (pronounced “Anty Jessica”) has taken it upon herself to be the Anty of Useless Things. Keeping in line with that sentiment, she bought for Tatiana a newborn swimsuit. A real swimsuit, with that stretchy material–not just your simple, run-of-the-mill baby swimsuit. Not satisfied with the uselessness of the swimsuit, she topped it off with a beach cover-up.

Sigh.

There was nothing else to do but have:

BABY’S FIRST FASHION SHOOT!