My baby is six whole months old!
BabyX2 loves puppy, kitty, me, my partner, cousin-Connor, bouncing, babbling, flying, being gently tossed two inches into a pillow in the love-sac, being sung to, and sitting up by herself. She does not roll over, because she don’t give a fuck what you think her goals should be – she wants to sit UP not roll onto her stupid stomach where she cannot even do anything. When faced with something she REALLY WANTS while on her tummy she can pop her booty in the air and get on all fours and …then scoot backwards – but this mostly leads to frustration for obvious reasons.
She is more in to the experience of being read to now, and vibrates with joy when the book is BIG and BRIGHT, both favorites! The book Go, Go, Planes, bought on a complete whim because it was so bright (seriously, 50% of day at Thrift Store is the best) despite being about planes (who cares?!) and having no people, story, or even information, is a huge favorite!
Baby is not that into sleeping, and we have (mostly!) decided we don’t care. We could get more sleep if we sleep trained, we know! But, we are prioritizing baby-bonding. This baby will get every single attaching advantage we are capable of giving her – and this one is just fine (while there are two of us, that is…). And, JUST LAST NIGHT, she woke up, cried… AND WENT BACK TO SLEEP. I admit I did consider crying with joy. It’s not like it’s GREAT to be sleep deprived. It’s just, for our particular lives, a reasonable trade.
Since we’ve had her, Baby has gone from 20th percentile to 50th percentile, and she is right on target for everything! She only spits up like 20 times a day, a HUGE improvement! Baby is now 17 whole pounds, and her butt is finally big enough for our cloth diapers! And, fortuitously, some amazing geek’s diapers just ended up at my favorite thrift store on 50% off day and whoever was doing the pricing does not know their value, so now I have 7 more diapers for a dollar each AND my baby gets to have what appears to be hand-painted Tardis-butt!
For the cloth diaper I’ve been making a pretty simple recipe of butt-wipes, with water, olive oil, witch hazel, and Dr. Bronner’s pure castille soap. Easy, fast, and green! My partner bought these plastic wipe things on Amazon and I laughed hysterically when we got them…and they turned out to be GREAT! As long as I off-set when I fill it I can pull them out one at a time through the top hole just like the store bought wipes!
Baby is eating more foods all the time! She is DOWN WITH sweet potatoes. Contrary to the baby recipe book, the blank nothing flavor of zucchini was NOT a hit with all…she will eat peas. Rice cereal is eh. Oat cereal is pretty decent. FUCK YEAH PEARS. Also, I wish all MY food was served to me in adorable happy-face everything. Thank you again, person who gave me the baby-bullet!
The foster-process is doing you a disservice because this baby is amazing and is so. doggone. cute.