A month of no posting! For no good reason! A lot can happen in a month, here's a few things that did:
Emma turned 6 months old! She has so many new little mannerisms and funny, sweet things that she does — its great to see her personality coming out. When I look at pictures from when she was just born, those early days, she looks like herself, only so much smaller, red and fresh and little and sleepy (though at the time I would not agree with that last one). Now, she is just becoming more and more Emma, which in neat. She is becoming such a big girl!
She has finally started sitting up! We had actually stopped even trying to get her to do it, because we were so used to her crumpling up and folding in half when we tried, nose in her toes. So one day, I thought to give it a shot again, and kapowie, she had gotten it! Stomach muscles! Balance! She's still a bit tippy but getting better by the day. It is fun to sit her up and let her play with something from that view. I think she likes it.
What she likes even more is moving, which she has really improved upon lately. The last time I wrote, Emma had just started creeping on her tummy. We'd put her on a blanket, and she'd inch and oonch towards something with her face plowing into the floor. It was quite a process. Now, she really is starting to crawl, for reals, this time! Today she crawled halfway across the living room! Thanksgiving was the first time we'd seen her really get up on all fours, and a few days after that she started rocking. Now, she kind of crawls like a frog, getting up, falling down on her stomach, pulling her knees in and pushing off with them again. She is starting to get the opposite arms and knee movement, so I think real honest to goodness crawling is next. Holy vacuum cleaner childproofing messy cluttered house! At least we had already decided on a table top Christmas tree this year...
In terms of eating, well, there seems to be none of the solid variety going down, despite our attempts. I was hoping she would take to it, since she seems to be needing more formula supplementation these days, and bottles are a drag (though I suppose carrying solid foods around are a drag, too). But, though she lunges, and stares with fascination at our foods, when something comes into her mouth she is so disgusted by it, and us, for being so stupid as to put that in there, her precious mouth, which is only for plastic, wood, paper, dog hair, and liquids, it seems.She has learned to hold her own bottle, and also loves drinking out of a cup (with assistance, if you don't want it to be all over her shirt). She LOVES that! The only substantial amount of sweet potato puree I actually got her to consume was mixed into some formula and poured into a cup, which she grasped in her little paws and crammed into her mouth, again and again.
Well, there is more, but I am going to save it, and start on another post for tomorrow, to see if I might break these up a bit and get in the posting habit again. Check back!
