Speaking of Grace .. let's get up to speed. She is 7 1/2 months old and driving me crazy (not really), ok sometimes she drives me crazy. After starting to teeth at 4 months and getting her first tooth at 5 months, she is sporting 7 teeth in her little mouth. Seven teeth that came in one right after another in miserable, non sleeping, low grade fever inducing succession. In other news, she has started to crawl, or at least her equivalent of crawling. She does this half scoot, half crawl thing that is so funny to see. At first I thought I should be worried about it, but I think she's going to start walking sooner than later, so this is just her temporary means of transportation. The reason we think she is going to walk sooner than later is because she has become very good at pulling herself up with everything she possibly can, my arm, the couch, the baby gate, her dad's leg, the toy bin, etc..
She is such a determined little thing. She gets that from me and she's stubborn which she gets from her dad. We definitely have our hands full with this girl. In good things we finally got her to sleep in her crib instead of the rock n play She started trying to roll over in the rock n play and she started sitting up in it So, the rock n play had to go, but I was dreading putting her in the crib because I figured she would be super resistant to the idea. We had started getting her to sleep in a pack n play in our bedroom at around 4 months, but once she started teething that went out the window and back into the rock n play she went. Well ... the crib worked out much better. Initially she started out in the crib and then half way through the night she ended up in the rock n play, but now she is pretty solidly sleeping in the crib.
Or at least she was until a few nights ago. I don't know if she is teething again or if we are starting to experience separation anxiety or what the heck is going on, but it's crazy and this momma is tired!! Last night Grace was up 3 times and cried every time I put her down. Finally at 3 am I let her sleep in bed with me. I figured that was better than listening to her scream and cry every time I tried to put her down and walk away. This parenting this is hard!!
What else? She is becoming such a character and is starting to really develop a personality. She giggles and laughs a little bit, but not a ton. She's such a serious little thing and I suspect we will be spending a lot of time trying to get her to loosen up and have fun. She's currently wearing 3-6 month clothes, but is slowly getting into 6-9 month outfits. She's still a little on the petite side, but that's ok. Schedule wise she is not very steady. She's usually up between 7 and 8 am, and down for a nap within 2 hours, and after that it's hit or miss. She usually takes 3 naps a day that vary in length from 30 minutes to 90 minutes. She eats or nurses about every 2-3 hours.
So life is busy, but it's great! I am loving every minute of being home with my sweetheart and wouldn't trade this time with her for anything. I am also going to make an effort to try to post a little more, but honestly I can't make any promises.
Here's a recent picture of my princess ...
