Where Did My Baby Go?!?

Ah, sweet Ellie, the formerly teeny Beanie. She is still small, don't get me wrong, but she's such a big girl now.

See? Look at this thigh! I have to remove lint from those folds every morning after it accumulates from her pj's overnight. :oP It is montekyuge compared to her calf. There are rolls upon rolls! I love a roly poly baby. :o)

Her newest nickname is "Gert", short for "Grabby Gertie". My goodness does she grab. Nothing is safe around her. I had her sitting in her Bumbo right next to me and she reached into the bowl of sungolds and got a handful! I kept trying to explain she has no teeth and would therefore make no progress with them, but she wanted to hear none of it. ;o)


I've taken to calling her "Mini B" as well. Yes, Hannah looked like her daddy, but jeepers creepers, this child is her daddy made over. He calls her "Mini Me". :oP I would like to have another baby so I could try to have one who looks like me...;o)


She is quite squirmy and you will rarely find her in the same position in which you left her. She is so desperate to move it's not funny. She is ready. I, however, am NOT.

She is also working on sitting up by herself. She can't get herself into a sitting position, but she can sit for a few minutes if you prop her up.


She is now eating at 8, noon and 4 during the day and then right before bedtime, 10ish, 2ish, and 5ish. I'm waiting for her to realize she can go longer at night as well. :shakes head:

She is still the urpiest of my girls. She will burp and urp, there it is. She doesn't seem disturbed by it, it's just messy. Heck, she's messy. She is a drool-monger. Anything she manages to get her grubby little mitts on goes right in her mouth. She gnaws and chews and drools pretty much incessantly.

But, with this grabbing and mouthing comes the--fanfare, please--ability to re-paci herself! If, of course, she hasn't flung the dratted thing from the crib. Oy.

She is quite serious--I have to work to get smiles--and very stubborn. She will NOT go down without a fight! I long for the day I can lay her in her crib and have her go to sleep with no crying. A mama can dream, right?

Her hair is beginning to show signs of laying down--in the front. It's also doing what Han's did, turning blonde. There are golden threads wending their way through the darker locks. The hair that was already there is growing longer--there's no sign of any hair falling out--yet! She has even avoided a large bald spot on the back of her head. Yes, there's a patch where she has rubbed it off, but it's far smaller than that of either of her sisters.

I just can't believe four months have passed. :shakes head:

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I have ten pregnant friends and family members and I have to say, I'm insanely jealous! I would love to keep having babies, but I know we're finished. First of all, I would want to have one a little closer than four years, and well, that would be three kiddos, two of them fairly close in age. Would Lil be left out then? Would the younger two be in cahoots and Lil left to mother them? I just don't think it's a good idea.

Buuuuuut, boy would I love to have another one. Just sayin'...

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Today's Sparklies:

1. I've been Rick Rolled two days in a row by NPR. Hee hee!
2. Ellie is playing so beautifully on the floor. It's been over an hour and she's still happy. Hooray, we're beginning to see more awake time!
3. Lil and I are working hard to get her schoolroom ready in time for school on Tuesday. Eek!
4. Waylen is still plugging along. I'm stunned, truly I am. What a tough little dog!

No milestones.