(Ana Sofia and her cousin Rowan)
This month Ana has grown so much- even just from arriving in Connecticut to when we left, the aunties noticed the changes- she started army crawling and becoming more mobile. She started being able to stand a couple seconds on her own, or "walk" if given two fingers to grab on to. She also became louder and more talkative ("she is now Jamaican" as they put it).
Coming back to Indy, and then another trip to Illinois, she developed a one leg out crawl that functions quite well. She can now pick up the cheerio (she mastered that at 5.5 months) get the cheerio into her mouth ( she mastered at 6 months) and release it into her mouth ( mastered at 6.5 months).
I think she is settling into things a bit better, but much to the chagrin of her dad, she is a momma's girl. Since 2 weeks old she slept through the night (waking up once to eat and going right back to sleep) but now she is back to getting up every 2/3 hours. I can almost set my clock by it. Any ideas how to fix that? Please?
She is full of discovery and laughter, and I not only love her, I like hanging out with her too.This month, more than any other, we have seen daily growth and changes and have had to start scampering to keep up. As she eats more solid food and becomes more and more mobile, I have to scramble to keep up and learn how to do things best in the next stage.
It feels like when she was born, Caid and I had to learn how to do everything for her. Now, and for the rest of her life, we have to learn how to stop doing everything for her and assist her in helping her do it for herself...and then letting it go. Roots and wings: give our children roots and wings. Vlogs are coming soon!
Just try not to break her routine. Don't play around after dinner or else she'll be sleepless. Is she teething yet? Maybe that's what's been bothering her. There's something we give Álvaro here which is called Calmomilina.
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