+ Trying +
Oh, how you are trying to crawl. My new favorite thing is to bring you in to our bed in the afternoon or evening and play with you. That's where you get the most tummy time with me, because you can still see me okay. I try to get where you can see me on the floor when we play, but you get frustrated more quickly there. Lately, instead of either pushing your butt up or doing push-ups with your arms, you bring your feet in and your chest up - just like crawling. But you keep your head ducked down on the bed and don't realize you can lift it and crawl like that. Just a matter of time, I'm sure. You're really trying hard to figure it out, and you're very happy to look around in that push-up position for a long time.

Last night when you were pitching a fit, you were essentially standing on my legs. I was just barely holding you under your arms (more to keep you vertical than anything else), and you were even gently bouncing your knees - but keeping control and maintaining your standing position. I never dreamed that would be getting so close. I think once you figure out crawling, you'll start pulling up VERY quickly.

You hold on to me more now when I'm holding you. And you figured out how to put your binky back in your mouth when you pull it out. And you figured out - much to my chagrine - that it's amusing to drop toys from your high chair to the floor while I'm doing the dishes, thus making me stop what I'm doing to pick it up, dust it off and hand it back to you. Neat trick. I know I need to get used to that one.

No poop at daycare yesterday; you saved it for me. Yep, I got the grody poop last evening, thanks. It actually didn't seem to bother you much, and you got a nice bath in return.

So full of love for you this morning. When I came in to your room to get you up and your face lit up to say "hi mommy!" my heart just melted. I think that's one of my favorite things in the entire world. Someday I'll miss these baby days.

+ Poopyhead +
All right, this post is about baby poop. If that bothers you, just pass this one on up.

Yesterday and the day before, you had some interesting poop experiences. Tuesday morning, you pooped normally. Tuesday afternoon you had three watery diarrhea diapers right in a row. Then, nothing. Wednesday morning, you had a diarrhea diaper, and yesterday afternoon, you had a green diarrhea diaper. Okay, alarms are going off. Last evening, nada. Luckily (or not), daycare got all of these. So nice of you. When we got home, I called your Doctor's office, and the nurse (finally) called me back. She asked me a ton of questions, and we reviewed a ton of information. Basically, she said not to worry too much. You don't seem dehydrated and I know now the specific symptoms to watch for. Thankfully, you don't seem bothered by this current problem, so that's a blessing. The green one is just because it ran through your system so fast it wasn't properly absorbed. I informed her that with my Celiac, I was sadly and unfortunately familiar with green poop.

Hopefully I will pick you up this afternoon and NOT get a run-down on your diarrhea for the day. The entire point of breastfeeding is to save you from these kind of afflictions. Sorry. Must've been something I ate.

Your afternoon daycare girl, Kate, is leaving after this week. :-( I'm very sad about this. I like her very much and felt she really listened to what I was requesting. Hopefully whoever they get to replace her will make me as confident. I am nervous about it, I'll admit.

+ Big girl +
Daycare told me yesterday that you're holding your own bottle now. What a big girl you are! This is a milestone I wouldn't normally know about, since I don't ever feed you with a bottle. I wondered, though, since you've been happily reaching for the pacifier/binky whenever I go to put it in your mouth. You also wrap your arms around my arm when I'm playing with you, rooting. (You'd think I never feed you the way you root, but that's beside the point).

You've outgrown some of my favorite outfits on you. Your purple Ceili outfit is too small now. :-( I'm sad about that, but it is the first in a long line of outgrown things I'll just have to accept. I'm going to try to find you a cute cuddly doll to put the outfit on so you can enjoy it. Not like we'll find another Ceili to give it to, so we might as well get some use out of it!

We had a bad evening last night. You were super-cranky. And I am thinking daddy woke you up by being too noisy when he came home, since you woke up screaming around 11:15. I'll have to talk to him about that.