Well, my days of getting anything done are officially over. It’s hard for me to even get 10 minutes to make myself some lunch. I shouldn’t complain to much, at least Mia is still sleeping well and I get my much needed breaks while she takes her oh so wonderful naps. She is growing and changing so fast, she’s hard to keep up with these days. We’ve given her a new nickname of ‘Monkey’ and from the pictures that will follow this post, I’m sure you’ll see why. She’s started making a couple new faces that we just love. They’re so funny. One really funny little smile face that makes her look like a completely different baby, and what I like to call her monkey face which also includes her making a ‘oo..oo..oo..oo” sound over and over again.
On top of all that, she is now set on walking EVERYWHERE. Nothing makes her happy like walking. This past weekend she’s had a little bit of a cold so she’s been quite a bit more cranky than usual. She just screams and cries at about every little thing we do. Even letting her stand at an object with toys and play, she screams. She has decided in the past few days that while standing, she absolutely must be holding on to our fingers with not just one, but both of her little hands so that she can run everywhere. She can’t just walk nice and slowly, she’s my little speed racer. The second we stop moving and set her down or pull one of our hands back, if even just to grab something quick or anything, she screams. I love that she is so curious and has taken such an interest in walking, but I have never been so anxious for a baby to learn to walk on their own. I bought her a walk and ride toy in hopes that she’d learn to walk with that, but no, it’s not holding our finger so while standing, she won’t touch it. Sometimes she is to smart for her own good.
While she is an excellent sleeper, she goes to sleep without a problem and has slept through the night for months now, she has also decided that if she does happen to wake up for a second in the night, she can’t wait for us to come get her her pacifier, she has to roll around and play. Not a bad thing always, she usually doesn’t cry til she gets stuck on her belly or can’t find something she wants, but by the time she does make enough noise for us to realize she’s awake, she’s wide awake and ready to play. I am trying hard to teach myself not to give in to her cute smiley little face and to just leave her there until she goes back to sleep, which usually results in getting her up for 20 minutes or so to play and her screaming her little head off when i lay her back down. I am quickly learning my lesson to just leave her in bed and hope she gets back to sleep.
She also has decided lately that she doesn’t need to take long naps, if I can get her to take 2 naps in a day at all. I guess from what my Mom told me about myself at her age, I should say what goes around comes around as I was a baby who quit naps all together at only a year old. With her it is especially difficult right now as that is usually the only time I have to get anything done, including eating and getting dressed, ha. When she does take a nap, there are so many times that she’ll sleep for 1/2 hour at the most and decide she’s done with that and be ready to be awake and up walking around. I swear she’d be happy walking circles in our living room all day if we could stand to help her do it all day. If only we had enough room for here to have a walker.
Well, thats my life these days. Although she does sleep through the night, her little attitude during the day is so tiring, I feel sleep deprived and exhausted a majority of the time. At times, of course, I do get frustrated and it wears on me a bit, but I wouldn’t change it for anything in the world. Mia is very much a momma’s girl right now and I really do love it. She’s so happy when I’m with her and so sad when she’s with anyone else (at least when she can see me). There are even so many times that she prefers me to Jason and as tiring as it can be, I love that she knows that she can come to me when she just needs to be loved and comforted. She, for the most part, is such a sweet and happy baby and I just adore spending my time with her.
One of Mia’s monkey faces, this is the ones that she’ll sit and go ooo ooo ooo.
Mia’s crazy funny smiley face. She usually gets her eyes pretty close to closed while she does it, but she was watching a movie of herself.
Just my little smiley Mia
My smiley girl again right before bed.
