3 weeks old!

Time is starting to fly! We're getting to get out and about with Meridian now that Spring is finally getting here, and it's sooo nice to not be stuck in the house. :) We've been wearing her on our chests with a baby wrap, and we get lots of nice comments about how cute she is :)  We're going to be going up to the mountain, and to the giant dog park, regularly, starting probably tomorrow. I'm excited to get her out into nature!

Not much else is new, except that we're all doing really well with elimination communication (http://www.tribalbaby.org/ECindex.html)! I know, it's one of those "weird" things we're into, but we're sold on how awesome it is, so we don't mind being weirdos in this case :p. Meridian has a certain cry to let us know she needs to pee or poop, and then we hold her over a bowl and let her go. We're getting really good at communicating with each other, which is really, really cool. I like being able to help her out when she cries, instead of staring at her in helpless bewilderment. :) She also seems so much happier after going in a bowl than when she has to sit in a dirty diaper. We could share videos of this (because obviously I'm proud :p) but I'll spare Meri that embarrassment :p

Instead, here are a couple of other videos, mostly from a week or 2 ago (I'm slow putting them up):

This is a video of Meridian smiling in her sleep, not much else :)

And this is a video of her sort of scooting around, from about a week ago. Since then, she's started to bend her arms a little bit while she does this. She still can't crawl yet, obviously, but it's cool seeing how she gets closer and closer as she learns a little bit each day :) And yes, I'm aware that her diaper is dramatically/comically oversized (we didn't buy enough infant-sized diapers initially), but the situation has since been remedied. :p

And some various pics:

 You can't see it, but she had already outgrown this outfit in this picture--we couldn't stuff her feet into the bootie part of the outfit. How is she already outgrowing clothes?!