I can't believe it's been 6 months. It's strange... it feels like a long time since I was in the hospital, a long time since she was itty bitty, but it also feels like she's growing up in no time at all. She's hilarious. She finally rolled over on her own yesterday, at first it was accidental but then she realized she could do it on purpose so now she won't stay on her belly for more than 2 seconds. She's still not rolling back to belly yet, but we'll get there. She can sit up on her own for a little while but still tips over. We're working on that too. For Christmas I got her/us a
Baby Signing Time DVD to start working on a few signs since she's getting so good with her hands. I've started using a few of the signs with her and she's fascinated with it and moves her hands, but not into the correct signs just yet. We'll get there with that too, just so she has more ways to communicate before her mouth can form the words. That'll be helpful on days like today when she's not happy with anything for more than 20 minutes and just whines. Must be her teeth again or something. Still no teeth poking through but that's all I can figure is making her uncomfortable.
At her 5 month appointment for her shots, she weighed 17lbs 8.5oz! Big girl! We didn't get a length but we will next week at her 6 month appointment. She is a very smiley girl most of the time, but for some reason she's not feeling great today or something. Generally needier, like she was in her 4th month. We had a few weeks of respite from the drooling/chomping/whining, then in the last week or so I've gotten her to sleep better at night by letting her completely wear herself out before taking her to bed. The last few nights she's only been up twice to eat, and yesterday she took 2 huge naps, which coincided with her finally rolling over, and now today she's generally a grumpy butt and won't nap very long again even though she really needs to. Grunt, fuss, whine, squirm, then she'll grin and kick... silly girl. She just needs to nap!
We're still holding steady with the same jobs. I'm still trying to squeeze in some writing here and there, and the holiday concert season is almost over so that will help. They stayed at home the last time I went to Gillette and pumping all weekend was really hard on me and had my supply screwed up for days afterward, and she was downright depressed, so we won't do that again. The first time she was just too little. Now that I'm gone regularly for rehearsals they can do bedtime without me no problem. I'm toying with the idea of working part-time at a tourist trap next summer to help out more with the income, but I still need to keep writing. Going back to a "real" job around here doesn't work well for me, considering the jobs I can get for the crappy pay. We might need another vehicle to make that work though, which we need anyway but getting that done has been impossible. This car needs servicing, the cats need a vet visit, we both need glasses and teeth cleanings, etc etc. The list goes on and on. I try not to panic about it. Mom can't babysit for a few more weeks so I just have to hang in there.
For my birthday I found a bunch of
Turbo Jam videos for cheap locally and I've been doing those for almost 2 weeks now and I'm feeling the difference, so hopefully it starts showing soon. Exercise is free! ;)
