cruisin’
Samantha is fearless and adorable. She cruises around the coffee table and even went from the couch to the coffee table, talented little lady she is. She's working on cruising from one kitchen chair to another; I'm not too excited about that. The chairs are a little top heavy to me. And she pulls up in the kitchen on the cabinets and then licks them. So weird, I know. She's able to stand on her own for longer and longer, still only a few seconds but it's an improvement from no seconds!
We are REALLY behind on uploading pictures. I believe the last upload was prior to May 16th. Have no fear, we have not stopped taking them, just posting them. We're half way through June and no June pics up yet, horror!!! (I am being totally serious, I hate it).
happy mothers day!
Mom, Mom, Grandma, Gungi, aunts...Happy Mothers Day to you all!!! We love you, thank you for loving us : )
We spent my first mothers day alone together. We didn't do anything big. Mostly because I'm cheap, however looking back packing a lunch and bringing it to Morton Arb would have only been a few bucks more than eating Pot Belly's for lunch like we did, but oh well. That's not to say I didn't have a wonderful day. I spent it with my family and loved every minute. The whole weekend was actually fabulous and it was just what I wanted. Adam's been working like crazy lately so it was great to just have three full days to spend together. Samantha did try to make the day a little more interesting by taking only one solid nap and fighting her bedtime but if that's all I have to 'complain' about I'll take it!
Since I was feeling blue about making a rotten decision not going to the arb, we took some pics in the backyard before dinner.
Baby on the move
Here we are again, Friday night. Where am I? In bed. On the computer. Alone.
Samantha is seconds away from crawling . If I knew any better or seen another baby start crawling, I might even say she has crawled. It's adorable. She gets up on her hands and knees. Then she stares out in front of her. And after she scopes out what she wants she catapults herself toward it. The first few times resulted in face plants. But she's a pro now. No more face planting, less catapulting and more shimming on her hands and knees. We're getting there!
Samantha is also more and more into her play mat. I would have thought that at nearly six months babies bore of it. Quiet the opposite for our little lady. She gets a furrowed brow as she moves around the mat. She will lay and gnaw on the elephant ear for an hour if I let her. And she's quick too! She'll circle the thing in 5 seconds before zoning in on what she wants to do first. Nevermind the toys hanging from it, she's all about the crunchy, soft, noisy things she can play with on the mat. Once Adam gets video uploaded I'll try to post a video of it!
I think we have a lot of Feb pictures but the majority of them are still on the camera. I don't know how to upload them, so I wait. In the meantime I included an oldie of Samantha. She doesn't sleep like that anymore really, but for about a month or so I knew she would fall asleep if I threw her over my shoulder like that. This picture is circa October 2008.
R-E-L-A-X
I'm so anxious about Samantha's schedule these days. After 3 months of no 'schedule', we started settling into a sort of routine. Wake, eat, play, sleep. Repeat. Her bed time was anywhere from 9-11. During sleep training we've found that Samantha's natural bedtime is around 8:30, give or take. So now I'm so focused on the bedtime that I start freaking out if she takes late naps. If she needs a nap after 6 I'm all worried the entire night is going to be ruined. After the last 5 1/2 months of going with the flow I don't understand why I am now so uptight about it. I guess it's just all part of the sleep training. I feel like we're doing something wrong all of the time. Or this is just my 'inner' control freak coming out. I've done so well up until now. I think a glass of wine with dinner will help ; ) And luckily I'm cooking with it tonight or else I wouldn't actually open a bottle to have glass.
I busted out the camera and video camera today. It's my last ditch effort to get some more pictures for February. Unfortunately I don't think I caught many good ones. I was hell bent on getting pictures of Samantha sitting. She would sit for a second and then become the human pretzel in order to get a toy. I tried holding toys above my head. During the review of pics I noticed the shadow of my arm. Doh! And the video wasn't much better. There was a stick man with a sun next to him on the screen. I said I wonder if that means I need more light. Did I move? Nope. Only when I moved Samantha to another apparatus (ok, just from the play mat to a blanket) did the little man disappearand the screen become crystal clear. Double doh!