Dear Abby,
So I am a few day's late with this update but life has been kind of throwing a lot at us these days! You are a mover and a shaker now. By mover, I mean that you are scooting, climbing, wiggling, army crawling and just generally antsy. By shaker I mean that you are starting to dance and sway to music, an absolutely adorable talent!
You are talking and babbling incessantly, it looks like you are going to give your big sister a run for her money someday. You can say hi and kind of wave. You smile and everyone and burst into a smile that looks like it's too big for your tiny face to contain. You then burrow your way into the chest of whoever is holding you at the time.
You try so hard to keep up with the big kids. Zoe loves to make you laugh by playing peekaboo and you come alive with excitement upon seeing her in the morning. Your big cousin Dominic loves to make you laugh by essentially hurting himself. He will throw himself on the ground for hours if he thinks it's entertaining for you!
You and the dog are the best of friends. You are still feeding her everything you eat, especially your cheerios and mum mums. The dog ate apart your net feeder, where you love to have frozen bananas. You two play, crawl around each other, and last night you both fell asleep cuddled into daddy's lap. It was a scene so cute I very nearly died!
You will finally take a bottle and are slowly weaning away from mommy. I am highly conflicted about this. I am enjoying the greater independence, but miss that feeling that I am providing all the nutrition for you and the bonding that comes along with it. The weirdest thing about you taking a bottle is that you insist on sticking your fingers inside of my mouth when I feed it to you. It's like you have to give me something since I am giving it to you.
Sleeping was getting a tad bit better until the last two nights when you decided it was party time all night. You love to YANK on my hair, so hard that it hurts while you are going to sleep. Makes for a rough night sometimes.
Mostly, I love you. It's just that simple. I love slowing down and appreciating every little thing about your baby days. I am in absolutely no hurry for you to do anything or go anywhere. I know you are our last little baby and I know that I want to remember the way you sound when you are eating and the pretend cries and the way you get your feet out of the most complicated blanket sleepers.
Love,
Mommy
