It seems that once New Year's had past, there was a strong urge to just get the decorations put away and the house cleaned up! It took almost a week to get that accomplished, but it felt great to have more room again and less clutter.
We finally got to set up Skye's play area too, so she too has more room to roam around. She really likes her new 'floor' and it only took minutes for her to figure out she can tear pieces of foam up and chew on them. Even in just one day with the extra room you could see she was making it from one side to the other faster by rolling.
This past week, at 9 1/2 months, she finally got the hang of crawling! We had to tease her a bit by dangling a few things in front of her. And when she got mad, she went pretty fast for just starting out ;-) But since then she is taking her time - which is fine by me. It's almost as if her foam floor acts as a fence for her and she hasn't ventured off of it yet to explore the rest of the house. Downstairs though she can zoom pretty good on the carpet. And I cringe as she gets braver with pulling herself up on other furniture and toys. I hope those two toofies stay put! Special thanks to Grammy & Grampy for buying the zebra walker - you should have bought a helmet to go with!!
We are almost at the end of January already. Another month flying by. And every day a big neon sign in my head blinks at me "time is running out before you have to go back to work". Ugh... It's like a dark cloud hanging over me every day. I will say I am a little (lot) stressed about it all. We have quite a bit of stuff to accomplish before that time (better sleeping habits, giving up mommy as source of milk!, etc). I guess I will have to really try hard to get a few things crossed off my list that have been there since my baby was born. It's hard to take the time to do some of that menial stuff when you just want to do fun stuff with the little one. Such is life I guess...
Here are some recent photos:
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| just waking up - look at that crazy bed head! |
