Andrea’s Weblog

Not too long ago I remember thinking “won’t it be nice when she’s
eating solid food?” NOT. I’ve figured out that it adds at least an hour
to our daily routine. Can you believe it? Giving her a boob every few
hours was easy. Now we generate dishes, dirty clothes and bibs. These
take time to clean, which combined with the actual time eating adds up.

Eating has been taking longer now that my daughter is fascinated by
spoons. Yes, spoons. This past weekend she held onto her spoon for an
hour, luckily she dropped and forgot about it before we had to get out
of the car and into public view. Today I got smart and gave her a spoon
to play with while I whipped out another with which to feed her. It
seemed to work, but my spoon was competing with hers for “mouth time.”

Nursing also has it’s difficulties. It seems that Elizabeth has honed
in on Caper’s (our cat) bell. Caper likes to come check on Elizabeth
when she’s nursing, so when she strolls by, Elizabeth’s head jerks up
looking for the cat that belongs to the noise. It took me awhile to
figure out what was more important than nursing, but then I realized
she was just trying to spot Caper.

Elizabeth is now into everything, and gets angry when she doesn’t get
to gnaw on what she wants to. Today I actually found myself saying,
“here, have a hanger” so I could finish my last few bites of lunch.”

Oh no! as I write this, Elizabeth has just figured out how to get one
knee under her in the crawling pose. Until now, her upper body has been
in the crawling pose while her legs remain in a lotus position. Now I
know why someone in the store a few months ago told me that I’ll miss
them when their this age.