Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Monday, May 10, 2010
I'm FOUR months old
My Mom thought I was four months old two weeks ago, when I turned 16 weeks. No one told her that after 8 weeks you count my age by actual date, the 11th, instead of weeks. Good thing Dr. Cady straightened her out. But now I am really four months old even though Mom and Dad have been telling people that for a few weeks.
A lot has happened this month! First of all I was evicted from my bassinet. They said I was over the weight limit and were fussing that I couldn't straighten my legs out when I was in it. Personally, I liked it a lot better than the crib and I let them know it. For the first week I cried a lot and then I got my way and got to go back to the bassinet. Then one day it was gone! I still don't know where they put it, but all I have now is my crib. I am getting used it but it feels so big and my mobile animal friends like to tease me with scary stories when I am trying to fall asleep.
Not only do I have to sleep at night in my crib, but they also are making me take my naps in my crib. Until now I have prided myself in being a 30 minute power napper wherever I was. Now they want me to sleep for a few hours twice a day in my crib. I cry a whole lot sometimes because I don't think I need all this sleep. But when I take what they call "a big girl nap" they are really happy and I feel pretty good about myself, so I have been doing it more and more.
I am having a lot more fun playing because I figured out that I can control my hands! It is so fun to suck on them and to grasp onto things. Sometimes I even find my mouth with the object I am holding. The best part about this is being able to put my passy back in when it is about to fall out. I have discovered books and really love looking at the pictures, especially the book I have in the car.
I love talking and playing with my voice. I can make all sorts of cool sounds, cackles, squacks, coos, and general babbling. I love babbling at anyone who will listen. But my mobile friends (Mr.Monkey,Mrs. Giraffe and Crazy Bird) are the best listeners of all. They never talk back and always laugh at my jokes. Daddy says I am going to be a talker like Mama. I think I am going be a good singer. I like to try to sing along at church with the music.
In other exciting news, I got to visit the ocean for the first time!! It was sort of weird because I got really tired when I heard the waves because it reminded me of my wave sound machine in my room. But I loved the wind whipping through my hair and the sand. I tasted the air with my tongue and can't wait to try swimming in it this summer. It can't be that hard, after all I am like a fish in the bathtub.
Daddy always gives me my bath and I love to splash him with a big kick with my legs when he isn't looking.I really love laughing. Especially when Mom and Dad play the kissing game and kiss me all over my face. Bella is lots of fun to look at too, but her kisses are a little more smelly.The only bad thing happening right now is that I am losing my hair! If I go bald I will look even more like Daddy. Mama is hoping it grows back blond, fat chance.
The other fun thing that happened this month was that I had a tree planted in my honor! Mom and Dad had a small ceremony with some of their friends to plant my placenta under a new baby tree. Mom and I go visit it in the garden almost everyday. It is growing fast just like me!
At my four month visit I was 14 and half pounds! This is the 80% of kids my age. My Dad says it's looking good for the WNBA. Gotta go- talk to you next month!
A lot has happened this month! First of all I was evicted from my bassinet. They said I was over the weight limit and were fussing that I couldn't straighten my legs out when I was in it. Personally, I liked it a lot better than the crib and I let them know it. For the first week I cried a lot and then I got my way and got to go back to the bassinet. Then one day it was gone! I still don't know where they put it, but all I have now is my crib. I am getting used it but it feels so big and my mobile animal friends like to tease me with scary stories when I am trying to fall asleep.
Not only do I have to sleep at night in my crib, but they also are making me take my naps in my crib. Until now I have prided myself in being a 30 minute power napper wherever I was. Now they want me to sleep for a few hours twice a day in my crib. I cry a whole lot sometimes because I don't think I need all this sleep. But when I take what they call "a big girl nap" they are really happy and I feel pretty good about myself, so I have been doing it more and more.
I am having a lot more fun playing because I figured out that I can control my hands! It is so fun to suck on them and to grasp onto things. Sometimes I even find my mouth with the object I am holding. The best part about this is being able to put my passy back in when it is about to fall out. I have discovered books and really love looking at the pictures, especially the book I have in the car.
I love talking and playing with my voice. I can make all sorts of cool sounds, cackles, squacks, coos, and general babbling. I love babbling at anyone who will listen. But my mobile friends (Mr.Monkey,Mrs. Giraffe and Crazy Bird) are the best listeners of all. They never talk back and always laugh at my jokes. Daddy says I am going to be a talker like Mama. I think I am going be a good singer. I like to try to sing along at church with the music.
In other exciting news, I got to visit the ocean for the first time!! It was sort of weird because I got really tired when I heard the waves because it reminded me of my wave sound machine in my room. But I loved the wind whipping through my hair and the sand. I tasted the air with my tongue and can't wait to try swimming in it this summer. It can't be that hard, after all I am like a fish in the bathtub.
Daddy always gives me my bath and I love to splash him with a big kick with my legs when he isn't looking.I really love laughing. Especially when Mom and Dad play the kissing game and kiss me all over my face. Bella is lots of fun to look at too, but her kisses are a little more smelly.The only bad thing happening right now is that I am losing my hair! If I go bald I will look even more like Daddy. Mama is hoping it grows back blond, fat chance.
The other fun thing that happened this month was that I had a tree planted in my honor! Mom and Dad had a small ceremony with some of their friends to plant my placenta under a new baby tree. Mom and I go visit it in the garden almost everyday. It is growing fast just like me!
At my four month visit I was 14 and half pounds! This is the 80% of kids my age. My Dad says it's looking good for the WNBA. Gotta go- talk to you next month!
My First Mother's Day
I wasn't sure what to expect on Mother's Day. I thought it would similar to a birthday, a day to get gifts, relax and be a bit spoiled. But when I woke and started to think of the day, I realized it was going to have a vibe all of its own. It felt much bigger than just me- I am a part of a whole now- I am a mother. It was so neat to celebrate with other mothers- like sharing your birthday with so many other special people! What fun to share and honor each other! It felt very global in thinking of mothers all over the world and circular in the sense of thinking of my mom while also being a mom. My mom is having her first mother's day without her mom. And thinking of Nori being a mom someday. What a beautiful gift to be in this circle of life- having the gift to be able to reproduce and nurture while at the same time being nurtured by my mom. It is neat how much I have felt like I needed my mom as I became a mom this year and how I can understand her in a deeper way now.
It also felt like a day to spend more time with Nori and pray for her in a special way. It was a day to give thanks for her and the gift she gives me in being able to be her mom. I also felt vulnerable in considering the task before us-to nurture and raise her knowing that we will fall short in so many ways. But that in the process of mothering I will learn so much about myself.
Of course, I was also spoiled a bit. Pete won the "son-in-law of the year award" by driving to my parents' house and back this weekend. He drove a uhaul truck both ways to bring back furniture that we inherited from my grandparents. On top of that he took me to buy flowers for our backyard and we went out for sushi- yummy!
But the best surprise of the day was finding out that my best friend since childhood, Jess, is going to become a mother! I am thrilled to share this journey of mothering with her, something we have talked about together since the third grade.
It also felt like a day to spend more time with Nori and pray for her in a special way. It was a day to give thanks for her and the gift she gives me in being able to be her mom. I also felt vulnerable in considering the task before us-to nurture and raise her knowing that we will fall short in so many ways. But that in the process of mothering I will learn so much about myself.
Of course, I was also spoiled a bit. Pete won the "son-in-law of the year award" by driving to my parents' house and back this weekend. He drove a uhaul truck both ways to bring back furniture that we inherited from my grandparents. On top of that he took me to buy flowers for our backyard and we went out for sushi- yummy!
But the best surprise of the day was finding out that my best friend since childhood, Jess, is going to become a mother! I am thrilled to share this journey of mothering with her, something we have talked about together since the third grade.
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