Lucy had enough big adventures this week, like our trip to the “Marion farmette”:/news/2006/vay-cay-with-bay-bay/ and her “first cold”:/news/2006/first-sniffle/, that there isn’t much more to say. But that never stopped me before. We can always find a few Lucy-isms to mark down for posterity:
* Lucy made some definite strides in sitting up last week. She can just about do it. I still am hesitant to leave her on her own, as her wild personality will sometimes evoke in her the desire to flip backwards and potentially bonk her head on the floor. But in a moderately padded environment, she has achieved sitting independence. She especially enjoyed her “laundry basket escapade”:/news/2006/good-clean-fun/ last Thursday night — and Mama didn’t mind having two hands free to fold laundry, either!
* Lucy is giggling more every day: when getting a diaper changed, when Papa looks at her during breakfast, when getting her nose suctioned, when looking in the mirror with Mama. God must have sent her here to teach us to be joyful!
* Lucy has started to recognize patterns and pictures in a new way, too. We often find her scritch-scratching on various surfaces with her fingertips. She is much more interested in books, and appears to be trying to grab the pictures on the page. Tuesday evening, when I brought out Baby Faces to read, she grinned hugely, then giggled and scritch-scratched all the way through the book. It is truly her favorite book.
* I’m almost embarrassed to say this, but Lucy definitely prefers Puffs Plus to regular tissues or cloths for wiping her sensitive nose. And if you come at her slowly and gently, she’ll sometimes let you give her a wipe without even flinching. But most of the time, she hates it. “Mo-o-o-m! Quit it!”
* Lucy’s fingernails grow quick as lightning. It might just be that her fingernails grow at a normal, human rate, but they appear to be long because her fingers are so tiny. In any case, I clip her nails about every third day, and she still ends up with scratches on her face. (Sigh.)
* Lucy has had her first real bout of diaper rash this week. We think it started when she pooped in the middle of the night, unbeknownst to us, and was sitting in it for a few hours (poor child). But she doesn’t seem particularly bothered by the rash. We have been lathering her butt up with diaper cream (Mama calls it “butt frosting”) and taking a break from cloth diapers until it is cleared up (since you aren’t supposed to use diaper cream with Fuzzi Bunz). Lucy’s butt is nearly back to the perfectly-smooth baby-butt we know so well.
* The other night (Thursday, November 16), Lucy woke up 45 minutes after her evening put-down and did not want to go back to sleep. When we got her up to play, she surprised us by getting up on all fours — on her knees — for the first time. Her first step toward crawling? She seemed to have a lot of fun getting onto her knees, laughing and grinning and looking around proudly. I’ve heard that sleep can sometimes be interrupted by developmental milestones, so perhaps that was the reason for her wake-up, as if she was lying there thinking about it and had to try her new trick. (We are still in denial about baby-proofing the house, but that will change soon enough.)
Benjamin definitely had his sleep interrupted by developmental milestones (sitting, crawling, walking, talking). Now that she’s getting to be good at sitting, keep an eye on her in the bouncy seat – Benjamin about flipped out of his around that point in his development (at which point we switched to the walker during my shower time).
ahhh, sleep interuptions. Last night (well this morning at 4) I heard the world’s largest fart. I thought, “Hum that wasn’t Brian” went back to sleep. FFFFAAAARRRT came again, but this time with a loud, MMMMMamamamamamoom. “HUM, I hope she didn’t poop, I better check” I thought. so I got up, can’t tell if she pooped because her butt smells like fart and I can’t focus to see if she is poopy. Thus the diaper was changed (no poop, just a huge fart or two or three that I could hear down the hall). She hates midnight diaper changes and yells bloody murder at me and crawles away and it SUCKS. But we changed and then she was up. for one hour she crawled and then decided to practice standing un-assisted, while I laid half-asleep next to her. Finally I told her I had enough so I put her in her crib and left the room. She went back to sleep until 7 this morning. Needless to say, I am tired!
If any of your readers need help with sleeping through the night I found a book (only availible on line) by Dana Olbelman (sp) called sleep sense. It worked wonders and didn’t make me feel like a looser mom for the bad habits that Maddy developed. It is pricey but work the money. She addresses problems from birth through the toddler years, so if you didn’t get it right, right a way you aren’t hopeless or a bad mom, instead you go to the book, look for the age your child is in and she gives step by step directions that work in 1 to 2 weeks. Ah, this is nice!
hey boyds! i’ve tagged you for a thanksgiving meme. no pressure or anything, just alerting you to the fact that you’re IT!
http://www.sarahjanerhee.com/2006/11/tag-im-it.html
and any of the other fine folks around here who want to join in the meme, feel free! happy thanksgiving to your lovely family!
That fart story cracked me up something fierce – thanks for sharing!