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thanateThis fine specimen of the North American Crested Baby (in her mid-atlantic winter coloration) is engaged in a battle to the death with a bag of raspberries.
Me: (going after a dropped berry) This one tried to escape after it saw the fate of its bagmates.
grauwulf: There's a reason I married you, and I guess that's it.
The last three weeks or so have been coaxing her from being a 10pm (11 on daylight savings) baby to an 8pm bedtime, and convincing her that she doesn't need to nurse until she falls asleep* to get to sleep, both of which we've actually sorted out, with an almost-like-regular nap schedule suddenly developing to go with it. This has also dovetailed nicely with reading her picture books, so that's actually working again. Teaching her to hold still long enough to fall asleep without someone holding onto her is going to be the next challenge, since she tends to pop right up again and either smile & wave at you or scream her little head off (depending on how much she'd actually like to be asleep at that moment) as soon as you put her down, but based on our success so far, I hope it won't be as difficult as we were originally afraid of.
*The book I was reading says I should let her eat until she stops suckling strongly, which (previous to the advent of 3 meals a day of real food) with this child means she's fast asleep.
Books have become a Thing of choice, and she's now trying to make them work, with moderate success; she can turn pages in handfuls & open and close covers, and the time to first rip or chew is increasing, so she's getting a little more time to play with non-board books before I pry them (gently) out of her hands.
After stalling out at standing up and walking around tables for a few weeks, she's venturing out a few steps into space all two-legged-like. Still at half a tooth (her "oneth") and about to cascade on signing. She's got a spectrum of "more" approximations (and once or twice has done it spot on), and a cluster of "milk" and various hand wavings in the direction of "berry" that come out when she's hungry. I need to be more on the ball about learning food signs so I can teach them to her. (The baby signing books I had out from the library seemed to think I needed to know how to sign "hippopotamus" more than "raisin.") And yesterday we had a sudden break-through on "all done" though she's thus far more likely to use it half-way through a diaper change than when she's finished eating, so that could be more helpful. Vocal babbling has sped up, but she doesn't seem to have got the connection between sound and meaning sorted out yet.
Me: (going after a dropped berry) This one tried to escape after it saw the fate of its bagmates.
grauwulf: There's a reason I married you, and I guess that's it.
The last three weeks or so have been coaxing her from being a 10pm (11 on daylight savings) baby to an 8pm bedtime, and convincing her that she doesn't need to nurse until she falls asleep* to get to sleep, both of which we've actually sorted out, with an almost-like-regular nap schedule suddenly developing to go with it. This has also dovetailed nicely with reading her picture books, so that's actually working again. Teaching her to hold still long enough to fall asleep without someone holding onto her is going to be the next challenge, since she tends to pop right up again and either smile & wave at you or scream her little head off (depending on how much she'd actually like to be asleep at that moment) as soon as you put her down, but based on our success so far, I hope it won't be as difficult as we were originally afraid of.
*The book I was reading says I should let her eat until she stops suckling strongly, which (previous to the advent of 3 meals a day of real food) with this child means she's fast asleep.
Books have become a Thing of choice, and she's now trying to make them work, with moderate success; she can turn pages in handfuls & open and close covers, and the time to first rip or chew is increasing, so she's getting a little more time to play with non-board books before I pry them (gently) out of her hands.
After stalling out at standing up and walking around tables for a few weeks, she's venturing out a few steps into space all two-legged-like. Still at half a tooth (her "oneth") and about to cascade on signing. She's got a spectrum of "more" approximations (and once or twice has done it spot on), and a cluster of "milk" and various hand wavings in the direction of "berry" that come out when she's hungry. I need to be more on the ball about learning food signs so I can teach them to her. (The baby signing books I had out from the library seemed to think I needed to know how to sign "hippopotamus" more than "raisin.") And yesterday we had a sudden break-through on "all done" though she's thus far more likely to use it half-way through a diaper change than when she's finished eating, so that could be more helpful. Vocal babbling has sped up, but she doesn't seem to have got the connection between sound and meaning sorted out yet.
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