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12/18/23

she has been sitting up on her own for about a week!
we packed up the bassinet and converted the tripp trapp from the newborn attachment to the high chair (got the cushion i wanted in the mail today)
she is trying to crawl!!! she has been concentrating hard to get up on her hands and knees and rocking in tabletop position. she smiles really big when i cheer and tell her what a great job she’s doing and how strong she is. then she does her kickety-kickety kicks on her belly like she’s swimming while smiling and breathing in quickly almost like a laugh and then she tries again. sometimes she rolls over by accident. most of the time she skooches backwards, and if she is on the fuzzy rug, her sliding backwards on her belly will leave a little snail trail path in the fuzzy fibers.
she rolls around so much in her crib while she is trying to sleep. she rolls and turns and rubs her face in the mattress to help her get back to sleep.
we keep multiple binkies scattered around the crib so she can find them while she rolls around. i bought a four-pack of glow-in-the-dark ones, which are helpful, but they do fade as the night goes on.
she likes to sleep on her belly with her little butt up in the air and her face shoved against the headboard of the crib.
depending on what way she is facing in the crib, we sometimes cannot see her head/face on the monitor because of the placement of our video monitor and our crib with the room’s harshly angled ceilings. it is distressing to me when i can’t see her head or face.
i will stare at the monitor and watch her back for breathing motions. now that she is sleeping longer hours, i go longer without checking in on her so i don’t disturb her sleep. and once she actually gets comfortable and goes to sleep, she lies very, very still.
the monitor has ANR (automatic noise reduction) to drown out the white noise machine/fan, but occasionally it will recalibrate and the monitor will make a big whooshing noise which is very loud and disturbing. sometimes it sounds like people talking in the room, which we don’t like.
her eyes when they are open will also reflect and seemingly glow in the night vision of the monitor, and it particularly disturbs my mother-in-law, but i am kind of used to it both because of how much we use the monitor, but also because the cats’ eyes reflect in the same way at night all the time.
the monitor will chime the same ringtone as an iphone alarm when it is low on battery. there is only one charging cord that came with it, so we are always moving it from upstairs by my side of the bed, to downstairs charging in the PS4.
i think she is going through a growth spurt because she is sleeping longer during the day for her naps.
she fell from sitting while we playing in her room and hit her head on a book and cried. i felt so bad. as much as i hate her crying, it makes me very happy to hug her and bounce her and kiss her and talk to her until she calms down; i am glad that i can comfort her like a real mom.
she can sit in the bathtub on her own now, without the seat! but she is still very slippery and falls sometimes and i have to be very ready to catch her.
her baptism was beautiful; her white gown and lace bonnet made her look like a little cherub. in the light of some of the pictures, her dress makes her look like she is glowing. in one she has her hand raised in the same way that baby Jesus has a hand raised in paintings and i think it’s really funny.
i have a picture of her sitting and smiling in her high chair for the first time and she looks like such a big kid :’)
this morning i had her in just her diaper so that she could feel different textures and we could have that skin-to-skin time that is so good for babies. it was so wonderful to hold her curled up between my arms on the floor. i gave her so many kisses, and raspberries, and bunny sniffs, while she smiled and looked into my eyes and ate my knuckles and grabbed my face and hair. her skin is so soft, her eye lashes are so long, her tongue is so pink, her scent is so delicate; she still had the perfumed oil in her hair from the baptism.
she has been talking a lot still, and lately has been nonstop making a high-pitched sing-songy note with a gurgling vibrato like a wookie.
she loves to chew on things with her little gums. she likes the new sophie giraffe i found from the baby shower and gave to her. maybe should have saved it for christmas. oh well, whatever.
i am reading the montessori baby book and looking forward to the list of activities to do with her at this age. i wonder when we should start crafts.
it’s snowing outside and has already accumulated a couple inches; i really want to put her in her snowsuit and take her out to play in it!