Today was worse than yesterday, to the point where I ended up in bed with chest pain. Its just s big stage we’re all trying to survive, and its fine, but I anticipate nap time. All is well now, though. The kids slept until Brady came home, and Dekker came into our room and asked “Be close to mommy?” So we cuddled together for a bit before supper. All is well, and we love each other. No worries 🙂
So instead of talking about today too much, I realized I haven’t kept you guys as much in the loop on all the fun new things that Laela is picking up! We are late on her shots this month (oops!) so I can’t tell you what she weighs at the moment, but she just feels tall! She stands up all on her own in the middle of a room now, and walks around holding onto couches like she’s been doing it her whole life. I don’t even specifically remember when that started, but she’s a pro. She is now my second child who will NOT walk while we hold her hands. Absolutely not. She wants to walk all by herself. That being as it is, she’s been on the verge of walking for a little while now, without too terribly much progress. However, she took her first completely stable unassisted steps a couple of days ago!! Two in a row. Before she just sat down and crawled to her destination. We coax and play and do everything we can to convince her to walk, but so far she opts to plop down and crawl. But its coming.
Laela plays all kinds of fun games! She loves to clap and click her tongue, and sing and dance. She dances all the time!! Its adorable. On laundry day, she likes to root through the piles in the basement and try to wear the clothes. She’ll actually pile socks by her feet and have shirts wrapped around her shoulders. However, since we started laughing at her because of it, she just tries to pull everything over her head. Beware. If she succeeds, she’ll cry until someone saves her.
She and Dekker play this hilarious game where they make eye contact from across the room, and once they decide in their secret language that its time, they speed crawl towards each other. They both squeal and laugh, and Dekker bails out almost immediately. But when Laela speed crawls, her puts her head down and just motors, so Dekker stops and stands up, and Laela stops when she eventually runs into something. Its so fun to watch.
The little miss has an ever-growing appetite, finally!! She loves to eat at the table and is slowing down on her milk intake. This will be the last can of formula that she eats from, we think, and will throw her into homo milk any day now. I remember that transition with Dekker, and how he drank so much less. I worried about it before asking other moms, and hearing lots of them say that they figure it out pretty quick. And they did! Going from the bottle to sippy cup with Dekker was a breeze. Here’s hoping it goes similarly with Laela!
I think thats pretty much it for the moment. I’m feeling pretty achy and sleepy after yesterday, so I’m thinking a nice long sleep and a few more quiet days will do it! Sleep well, all!