Archive for May, 2007
Thursday, May 31st, 2007
My little girl is moving on up. She’s graduating her Infant I class at daycare and starting Monday will be in the Infant II class. Sniff, sniff! They tell me she is definitely ready to move up and hang with the older kids. She has been spending most of the day the past week in that room anyway and she’s getting along well with the other kids. I think she will do well, and fortunately one of the teachers in her new class is just totally in love with her. So I know she’ll be taken good care of. But it’s still a little sentimental that she’s not with the little babies anymore. It’s a sign she’s growing up already. She even gets a diploma! How cute!
I still can’t get my head around the fact that in less than 5 months she’ll be 1 year old and considered a toddler!
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2007
Amelia is almost crawling. Once she does, there won’t be any stopping her. She took several “step” this weekend, so she’s slowing figuring it out. I told E that he’s going to pick her up at daycare one of these days and they are going to tell him that they had to chase after her all day long. LOL!
She’s also becoming such a flirt. We went to the lake yesterday and E’s cousin was holding her. Anytime E said something to her, she’s tilt her head to one side, put her arm up and give him the cheekiest grin. It was so cute and funny to watch. Her daddy is going to have a tough time keeping the boys away!
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Monday, May 28th, 2007
The time has come. We have to start thinking about babyproofing the house. Mainly the living room. With the dogs in and out I’m not sure I want her crawling around the kitchen floor. It just stays too for Amelia to play on. I’d literally have to sweep and mop 2 or 3 times a day to keep it clean enough for her to play on and I just don’t have time for that. When she starts walking, I’ll probably let her in there more, but for right now, I’d rather she stay in the living room.
But we have too much stuff within her reach and she’s already trying to get into stuff. And she’s not even crawling in the traditional sense. She crawls backwards and she does this weird flip thing where she goes from laying down to sitting, but she pretty much travels across the room doing it.
And I know she’s going to be a handful. The few times I’ve told her no in a serious voice, she has laughed when I said it.
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Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007
When I left Amelia at daycare this morning, I leaned in to give her a hug and she grabbed me around the neck and gave me a big hug and a big ol’ slobberly kiss. It was so sweet! My heart melted.
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Monday, May 21st, 2007
After a week and a half of being at home with Amelia, today was our first day back on our regular schedule. It was so hard to let her go at daycare this morning. I know she’ll be fine, but it was hard to leave her. I got so used to being at home with her. Even the few days I did go to work, she stayed at home with my parents.
I mentioned that she loves to sit up and now knows how to sit back up from laying down and that she hates to be strapped in and reclined, and her teacher said she would make sure to give her more floor time. So that’s reassuring. I know she won’t spend the whole day sitting in a swing or anything. She doesn’t do that at home. We’ve packed away the swing and the bouncy chair we used to use. She’s outgrown both. She still occasionally plays in her exersaucer, but for the most part, she plays on a blanket on the floor and she is content that way. She can scoot around, sit back up when she falls over and she’s not strapped in.
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Saturday, May 19th, 2007
For over a week now, Amelia has been struggling with pushing herself up to sitting from being on her belly. She worked and worked at it, and today she did it. She went from her belly to sitting up! She only did it once, but I’m so glad I was right there to witness it. It’s moments like this that make me wish I could stay home with her everyday instead of leaving her at daycare and going to work.
I made a big deal of it and the smile on her face was so rewarding. These are the best parts of being a mom. Seeing her face light up because she knows that mommy is right there. I’ve been at home with her for almost two weeks. Yes, I went to work for three days in those 2 weeks, but she stayed at home with my mom, so it was a little different than her going to daycare. But we got used to me being at home with her. Now that we have to go back to our normal routine of work and daycare, it’s going to be a big adjustment for both of us. I just hope we can get back on track pretty smoothly for both our sakes. I still have tomorrow with her, but I’m already dreading Monday.
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