Sleep Wars - It looks like the rebel crib forces have finally started getting the upper-hand! Oh there is still resistance, but the crying only lasts about 15 minutes a night (as opposed to 1 -2 hours). In fact, last night...she only cried for 6 minutes - our Jedi mind tricks are finally working!
Teeth - I had no idea how long it takes baby teeth to come in! Her two front bottom teeth broke through her gums weeks and weeks ago, but are only lately starting to look like teeth. Last night she was so upset we decided to feed her fresh fruit in a 'fresh food feeder' for the first time (it's a little pacifier with a mesh bag). She cried and waved it around and fussed...until she put it near her mouth and realized it had peach slices in it! I have never seen her attack something so eagerly! It was hysterical - you could actually see the moment when she thought
Teeth - I had no idea how long it takes baby teeth to come in! Her two front bottom teeth broke through her gums weeks and weeks ago, but are only lately starting to look like teeth. Last night she was so upset we decided to feed her fresh fruit in a 'fresh food feeder' for the first time (it's a little pacifier with a mesh bag). She cried and waved it around and fussed...until she put it near her mouth and realized it had peach slices in it! I have never seen her attack something so eagerly! It was hysterical - you could actually see the moment when she thought
"Oh...hang on...this tastes....good!!"
Crawling - She doesn't really crawl as much as she scoots her self ...um...backward. Which I guess is fine as long as she isn't in a hurry to get anywhere.
General Babyness - She is about 18 pounds now (to our best 'on-scale with baby, on-scale without' calculations). I keep worrying that she is too small, but I am comparing her with the other daycare babies who are either older or just plain bigger (much love to cutie Christopher). She is going to be 9 months old in 3 days and she is now wearing 9 month clothes (albiet, a tad roomy). If the Carter's baby clothes people say that's the size of a 9 month old, who am I to argue?
She has started to become a little parrot. You giggle, she giggles. You squeek, she squeeks. The dog barks...well she sometimes does too. It so adorable and so cute. I am making sure I am writing this down - so that in the future I can refer to this post and remember that, yes indeed... I did think it was cute once.
Pictures - Yep... I saved this for one of the last updates. After Christmas, I swore I wouldn't take her back for pictures until after she could sit up unassisted. Here you have it - visual evidence of our dwindling checkbook. If there is one thing I have learned about myself as a mom, it is that I am an absolute sucker when it comes to pictures of my kid - I cannot say no.
Worrying - I have a whole new batch of things which stress me out now. Not obsessively - more like 'having to check that all the doors are locked before going to bed' types of worries. Is she eating enough? Is she eating the right things? Are we moving too slow on food variety? As you can tell, the eating part is a worry trigger for me. Maybe because I really want to do right by her when it comes to food, maybe because I used to be a food source.
I get a little wiggy about sleeping too - just because our daughter is a 'stomach-side-knees-head-butt in the air' sleeper and everything you see warns you to put her on her back. We put her there, she just doesn't stay there. I know she is fine but... holy cow that kid can flip around in bed.
Being a Mom - I love it. It is all encompassing, good and bad. Nathan and I have left Hailey several times with her grandma and grandpa and gone out as a couple, and even after a few hours I start to miss her.
It's tiring.
At home we seem to barter time back and forth just so that we can do normal everyday things. "Can you watch her for a second?" has replaced "I Love You" and "What do you want for Dinner?" as the most spoken sentence in our house ("What character are you playing?" comes in a not-so-distant 4th. If you really know us, then you understand that one).
It's stressful.
Then... she makes some crazy noise that makes both of us just start laughing or she farts and smiles at you like she just created a symphony. Better yet... you watch her discover the world around her - like the little mesh bag with the peach slices in it....
and it's worth it. Totally worth it.
Being a Mom - I love it. It is all encompassing, good and bad. Nathan and I have left Hailey several times with her grandma and grandpa and gone out as a couple, and even after a few hours I start to miss her.
It's tiring.
At home we seem to barter time back and forth just so that we can do normal everyday things. "Can you watch her for a second?" has replaced "I Love You" and "What do you want for Dinner?" as the most spoken sentence in our house ("What character are you playing?" comes in a not-so-distant 4th. If you really know us, then you understand that one).
It's stressful.
Then... she makes some crazy noise that makes both of us just start laughing or she farts and smiles at you like she just created a symphony. Better yet... you watch her discover the world around her - like the little mesh bag with the peach slices in it....
and it's worth it. Totally worth it.
