38 Weeks

This was a pretty low key week for us! Definitely a nice change, especially after our busy weekend. Not too much seems to be new with Annie this week... she is really content lately, even on weeknights!! What an awesome change that is, seriously. Several nights this week she would really just play happily with her toys right up until bedtime - no meltdowns at all!

Getting a back rub from Dad - Annie has an extremely rough life

She was pretty thrilled to go to daycare on this morning

We watched Mia on Wednesday night - her and Annie had fun playing for a bit. It's interesting to watch the things Mia gets into at our house - I'm still kind of shocked that Annie still hasn't gotten into much. She very rarely goes after cords, and really barely ever crawls for more than a few feet at a time before sitting and playing with something. She goes right for her toys each time we set her down and then plays with them for a few hours sometimes. And then does it all over again the next day!

One funny story from this week - Ben was out one night, so I was home alone with Annie. We were just playing in her room for awhile, all was dandy, until I (not her) got bored, so we changed scenery to the living room. Our stupid security system was beeping because the internet had gone down earlier in the day, so I was over there and pushed a button that I thought was the button to stop the beeping. It worked, so I just went back to the couch. I had already read Annie several books that night, so I decided to read her our CSA newsletter for some variety of language :) I was in the middle of it and my phone rang - some number I didn't recognize, so I didn't answer. A minute later, there was a knock on the back door - I assumed it was Nate, so I said come in - he knocked again, so I went back there, and he's on the phone with the dispatcher from the security system - apparently I had accidentally called emergency medical services - whoops!!! Unfortunately, it was too late to call them off, so a minute later, a huge fire truck shows up at my house - I took Annie out with me so they would take pity on me :) The dude said hi to her, and laughed at me - he didn't seem angry at all, phew! The neighbor kids definitely enjoyed seeing the fire truck too - they were all "What did you doooooo?? Is that baby yours??" So that was our excitement for the week!

More and more, Annie is noticing the details of things. The stupid basket we have her toys in desperately needs to be replaced, because as she bangs on it, little pieces come off, which she inevitably sticks in her mouth. No piece of lint is safe around her anymore! She also has been grabbing at my face more, poking at my eyes, my mouth, nose, and she really likes poking at my wedding ring. She loooooooooooooooooves necklaces too - she just likes to play with them, she doesn't try to yank them too much, which is nice. It's actually one of my favorite ways to trick her into sitting on my lap for awhile :)

A few more attempts at pulling up this week, but she got no further than her knees. I'm excited for her to do it, but I'm trying to remain zen and appreciate where Annie is right now instead of always trying to push her to do the next thing. She is growing so big so fast, and she is SO much fun right now, I kind of want to keep her this way for awhile!!

Halloween costume #1 - our little bumble bee!

Nate and Molly had a little Halloween gathering yesterday - it was difficult, nay impossible, to get a good shot of everyone, but I think this one is hilarious

We had a mom & baby gathering tonight, and I think that really helps me see how wide of a range of normal there is with respect to babies developments! Some are chattering away, some don't babble much. Two are pulling up and crawling all over, a few aren't crawling at all. Only one is waving, one scoots on his butt a bit but that's it. And they are all doing great! Of course everyone looked super cute in their Halloween costumes too!

Annie and Ruby had similar costumes - wings and antenna for both!

Best picture ever :)

I also liked hearing about how different the eating habits of each baby was at mom & baby - a few are down to 4 or even 3 nursing sessions/bottles per day. Some seem to be voracious eaters, and a few apparently barely eat any solids. I've been contemplating eliminating a session for Annie, since right now it feels like she's eating all the fricking time. Especially with table food - today I gave her peas, some cantaloupe chunks, blueberries, sweet potato and cheerios for lunch. She ate for like 40 minutes. It was kind of nice, I just plopped some food on her tray every few minutes and cleaned a lot of the kitchen while she ate, but good lord! She still usually takes all her bottles at daycare and will happily nurse so I'm hesitant to change anything yet. I don't really wait for her to cry to feed her though - I just feed her every 3-4 hours... so I could just try it out one day, but of course I'm scared that she will wake up starving that night or something!

Speaking of... Annie has been waking up crying a few times this week at like 9-10pm - once it did seem like she was hungry, but a few other times it was just to cry. I honestly wouldn't mind much if she just calmed down immediately when we pick her up, but that isn't always the case. She just wiggles around and still cries - who knows why! She eventually figures it out and goes back to sleep, but it's unnerving... I hear there is a 9 month sleep regression, basically when separation anxiety kicks in, but this doesn't seem to be that. Whatever - I'm sure it's just a phase that will pass, hopefully soon.