Tonight Becky had her second ever go in the jolly jumper – and she absolutely LOVED it!! It didn’t take her very long at all to work out how to move her legs to bounce up and down and to turn around to watch what was going on around her. She’s growing up too fast!
This morning I went to a sewing class with Becky. I made a cow print fleece pocket nappy for her. I think it looks great :)
And speaking of growing up, I think Sarah’s about to give the dummy the boot too. As almost the last “baby” thing she does, I was happy for her to have the dummy as long as she needed it (ok, so I would have had an issue with her being 37 and still using!) for going to sleep and for comfort. I mean, I have the body pillow that Nic gave me when I was pregnant with Sarah. I’ve slept with it almost every night since, in fact I find it hard to fall asleep without it.
I’d be so incredibly annoyed if someone took it from me because they thought I’d become “dependent” on it for sleeping, so I wasn’t going to do the same to my little girl.
Lately she’s started chewing on them – literally chewing holes in them. I think she killed off about 10 in the last 3 weeks! I was getting tired of replacing them, so we tried the “never offer, never refuse” method of weaning. I never offered her the dummy, but if she asked for it I never refused.
It’s been 2 days and she hasn’t asked. I guess she just decided that she didn’t need it any more. I do have one stashed away in the cupboard in case of emergencies though ;)
*sniff* I’m feeling quite sad at the moment – my baby is just growing up way to fast. I’m pretty much around the girls 24/7 and even I can see that Becky’s getting bigger. She can hold her head up so well now, and she’s so alert, watching everything that’s going on. And smiley! She’s always got the biggest grin on her face.
She doesn’t seem to want me to cuddle or nurse her to sleep anymore either. I did that with Sarah until she turned one and decided that she was a big girl now and wanted to go to sleep on her own. Three nights in a row now, Becky’s kicked me out. I miss it already, it’s such a calm, peaceful, beautiful, gentle… loving way to help her of to dreamland. I know I should be happy about it – and I am! But it’s just another reminder that she’s not a newborn any more and that she’s growing up.
But you want to know the worst of it? She’s getting her first tooth :( You can see it under the gum, and she’s been chewing on her hands constantly for the past week or so. I was in complete denial when I first saw them – but they haven’t gone away. Today Becky would pull away, arching her back and crying every time I tried to feed her, until I put a smear of bonjella on her bottom gum and gave it a minute to kick in. Then she’d feed.
I’m not worried at all about the “teeth and breastfeeding” thing. Sarah had nearly a full set before she weaned, it’s really no big deal. I’m just sad because it means, again, that she’s growing up WAY to fast.
I’m madly snapping photos, trying to capture it all before I turn around and find, like Sarah, that she’s suddenly all grown up.
James and Belinda welcomed their son, Daniel, into the world on Thursday. He seem soooo tiny, and yet he’s nearly a full pound heavier than Becky was at birth. We went over today to meet Daniel and give him a cuddle. What a handsome little dude :)
Just now Becky laughed at me for the first time :) A real laugh!! She completely cracked herself up.
