Lulubee amazes us more every moment of every day. She may still wake up 5-8 times during the night, but she is one adventurous, out-going and confident kid during the day. She has finally mastered sitting back up on her own and she is as proud as a peacock. Lately she has taken a liking to clapping and she gets a big ovation for this success. It was so frustrating for her when she felt stuck on her belly. Now she has it all under control.
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| What we do when the power goes out. |
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| New "baby" seat for the Burley Bee! |
Which led to an interesting turn in events. Lucy doesn't seem to be as interested in forward movement any more. She can scale the body pillow and slide out of the bed and can army crawl across the room to get to something fascinating (ie: a shoe), but she is so darn happy just leaning for things near her and sitting back up that she hasn't been doing much moving for the past few days. She does have a new found interest in pulling herself up and standing, such as the side of the tub and her toy box. It is fun to watch all of her physical developments evolve.
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| Finally big enough to ride in the back carrier. |
We often walk over to the playground in our neighborhood with a blanket and a bag of toys she hasn't seen in a while. She is now "asking" to see what is in the bag and making her own choice of what to pull out and play with. Her movements are getting much more refined and she can move one thing out of her way to get to another item that she is after. There is less throwing her arm around to eject a toy and more intention in putting it down. Her fine motor skills have made significant changes and she turns pages in books with both her hands and her feet. Lulu is working at using her fingers and thumbs to move the little beads on her wire maze toys, previously just slap at them to make the beads spin around. All of a sudden (as so many things that happen with a baby), she picked up on "sharing." Now we get to take a bite of whatever she is gnawing on while she giggles, takes a bite herself and shoves it back in our mouth. This provides great distraction in line at the grocery store!
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| Strawberries are tart! |
Food has become lots of fun and I am really enjoying preparing food for her. Her list of foods is so long now (with regular poos, yay!) that we will probably up her intake of solids to two meals a day soon. So far she only dislikes bananas and had one very bad reaction to egg yolk, so we will try those again in another month. She is recognizing whole food now and even took her first ride in the cart when we were grocery shopping. She loves to touch all of the different produce and gets a bit annoyed when she can't have all of it at the very moment. Her and gadaga (daddy) love sharing apples and she seems to have accepted the fact that he is going to eat sour granny smith apples and not sweet honeycrisps like mommy :-).
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| First artwork...finger painting in a ziplock bag. |
While my anxiety about being a wife, mom and a student grows, Lucy continues to show us that she wants to experience more and more of the world. Taking her to activities and events has shown us how interested she is in getting to everyone around her. She smiles at and reaches out to touch almost everyone she meets, melting hearts every where we go. I am hopeful her days at childcare won't be too long, but I do see that she is ready for more than just hanging out with mom. And if we are being honest, I am ready for more, too. I am soaking in every single little minute with this girl (okay, I do start to lose my mind when she wakes up every hour on the hour all night for eight straight hours :-). Jim is back to work as of yesterday and I am already mourning the loss of such a unique and wonderful time as just the three of us. I also know how lucky we are to have those memories and we will continue to build them in different ways. So, I am milk pumping machine in preparation for childcare and Lucy and I are going to make the most out of the last weeks before we make another transition.
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