More of Elisabeth's Accomplishments!

Elisabeth clapped her hands Wednesday, but tentatively. Last night she did it a lot more, then grabbed my hands and was clapping them! She quit, and I scratched my head, and she grabbed for my hand! It was cute.

She cries every time Daddy leaves for work, so I have to think of something to distract her. She just loves other babies. We walked over to Mya's and she had fun playing with Olivia and wanted to grab Eleanor!

I put her in the nursery at MOPS, I wasn't too sure about it, but she loves being around the other kids, and she's so busy crawling and getting into stuff.

This morning when Daddy left, I was carrying her down the hall to distract her, and she saw my shadow on the wall. I stopped and showed her my hand-shadow, then held her hand up. She was fascinated!

I keep meaning to post and tell you all about the fun thing I did this weekend that I'd never done before, and it's done more often in the South! So maybe tomorrow, eegh, it's the weekend, so Monday?

Oh yeah, teeth and other stuff. . .

And since I haven't posted for three months, I supposed I should do an update on Little Miss Elisabeth. She has 8, yes, eight, teeth now (and she bit me today when I was fishing for a bit of cardboard, got me hard enough and right in between the bones, that I cried. How silly is that? I mean, I went through 5 hours of intense labour, yes, it was longer, but it wasn't too hard, but my finger hurt so much I cried. It was weird.)

Now back to our regularly scheduled programming. . .She crawls; she has been for quite a while, she was crawling a few feet at a time in November, but then Saturday a week after Thanksgiving she followed me down the hall and realized she could go more than three feet at once! So she was off!

She immediately started pulling up and soon started standing alone. It's really amazing. Daddy is her own personal playground; she loves crawling on him. She'll race away, going into hyper-crawl if she's into something that she knows I'm going to take away, like Daddy's guitar picks! She chases us up and down the hall and loves it when Daddy goes back to work and carries her down the stairs in our apartment, and I chase them!

She tried brushing Daddy's beard with my hairbrush the other day.

She can wave, and watches me closely when I was clapping my hands. Oh, this is funny, I will point at her and say, "Hey you!" so last week she started holding her fist out, and this week she figured out how to stick her finger out and point! She's a lot of fun. I think I'm going to teach her to say, "I'm more fun than a barrel of monkeys." Which I think a barrel of monkeys wouldn't be fun unless they were those trained service-monkeys, and they cleaned house. Whooo, that would really be fun!

More stuff. . .

Elisabeth's second tooth came in Monday.

I am currently reading Through Painted Deserts by Don Miller who wrote Blue Like Jazz, which I really enjoy!

Whoa!

Has it really been a month since I last posted? Okay, don't answer that!

Elisabeth is rolling over back to tummy all the time. The doctor says that's harder and babies that are larger have a harder time with motor skills. Hmmm. She was slightly less than 90 percentile for height/weight/length.

Her first tooth came in last week. We realized it Saturday when I was swabbing her mouth with Grapefruit Seed Extract and something poked my finger. Bottom front right. She's so easy-going we just thought it was the thrush bothering her. But she wasn't even as fussy as she was with the thrush when it was worse. She did start nursing at 2 am again, had been sleeping til 3 a couple weeks ago. And Thursday a week ago had four messy diapers, so I'm guessing that was when the tooth was coming in. The left side is swollen, but don't feel it real close yet.

It has been pretty cold up here in ND, we brought my tomatoes in last night.

We went to the library sale and got some more lovely books for PaperBackSwap. Check it out, it's really neat. If you have books you don't want, you can post them, get credits and 'buy' books you want with your credits. When you post 10 books, they give you two credits to start with and you get credits when you refer people and they post books. I've gotten a bunch of books way cheaper than even used bookstores. :O

I'm reading one book, The Space Between Us, by Thrity Umrigar. It's requested 49 times and sounded interesting. It's a about the class system in India. One quote I like so far about a man staring inappropriately at a woman, [He is]"Acting as if he had no mother or sister." A rather apropos statement regarding any man who treats women with disrespect.

Well, some sleepyhead is awake and making noises, so off with my day.

Names?

We do not have a baby yet, well, that's visible, naw, present, naw, okay, that is born. Thus, last minute panic of "What are we going to name it is encroaching?" Just for fun, and maybe a slight cessation of panic, does anyone have any suggestions? And for thinking of ones we haven't already.

Sometimes Being Pregnant Isn't Fun

I'm just having one of those days, or two now, where I can't get comfortable sitting, standing, walking, lying down, etc. I just ache, mostly my back.

But otherwise, it's all right. It can be fun. Feeling a baby, a person, move inside you is incredible. S/he's certainly not "just a lump of tissue," but someone with a mind of his/her own. If I lay on my stomach, s/he kicks the bed. And when I press back on whatever part is sticking out, she moves away. Thankfully, s/he's not like her/his mama, who would kick harder when she felt resistance. My dad and I would squeeze my poor mom between us!

But I can't complain; I'm haven't had morning sickness constantly like two of my friends did. And I have quite a helpful husband who is very sympathetic, although not too excited about the diaper thing.