Abby’s growin’ up too fast!!

Abby finally started crawling on Jan 24, one day away from 8 months old!  She’s been scooting ever since about 6 months or so, and she got so good at it, she is just so fast, that I really didn’t think she was ever going to get around to crawling.  She did the whole rock back and forth on her knees for a good 4-6 weeks before she crawled, when everyone said that days after she starts rocking she’d be crawling.  She still doesn’t crawl all the time though, Abby May still prefers the scoot: left arm in front doing all the work and a small kick with her right foot.

Abby started standing herself up using furniture or my body or a wall on Jan 22nd.  She even walks along furniture!  I just can’t believe it.  She is everywhere and into everything!!!  Her newest favorite trouble to get into is standing up against the TV stand and hitting the TV with both hands!  She gets very excited about it, while mommy and daddy have mini heart attacks.

Abby said “mama” first a while ago, I think Oct-ish?  Then very soon after, she started saying “dada”.  Now she doesn’t say anything but dada dada dada all day.  She’ll do her other goo’s and ga’s, but whenever we try to get her to say “mama” or anything else, she just says “dadadada”.  Awe well, I know she loves me.  She has the sweetest little voice, I love listening to all her little stories. She’s figured out how to smack her lips just right to make a soft popping sound, so funny!

A few cute new things she’s doing:  She’ll wave both her arms in the air and twirl them about when she’s excited, she’s been doing that for a month or two now.  Abby will hold toys in her mouth, and crawl around with them just hanging out of her mouth, she looks like a lil puppy dog, it’s so funny!  She’s graduated to the big girl bath as of 6 weeks or so ago, she loves it but won’t hold still for a second!  And the last one I can think of right now: we have all the toys in a bin and we’ll dump them out and leave the bin on its side, and she’ll take out all the toys, crawl into the bin and bang around screaming, listening to her voice echo.  So precious!!

Abby’s also been doing a lot of thumb biting, not sucking, biting.  In fact she doesn’t suck on anything other than her mama and occasionally her binky.  That’s right, she’s still not taking a bottle, urg.  I’m working on that more lately, the past week or so I’ve been asking and reading around to see what I can do.  Abby’s also been biting on her sippy cup.  We bought the cup like a month ago but she still hasn’t quite figured it out.  I was reading online and tried what someone suggested: I took off the lid and poured some into her mouth.  She was a little alarmed at first but realized that she liked it.  A little more of that, then I put the lid back on and had her watch me suck on it.  Then I gave it back to her and made the sucking noise and she did it!  For a little while, then she was done with it.

But she is eating a lot of other foods now.  Well, she’s had a weird appetite.  She did so well for a good six weeks, starting at six months with her solid foods, then when we got back from Utah she didn’t want to have anything to do with it.  Now that she’s old enough she can have all sorts of different foods, and the variety has helped a little.  One day I literally had to feed her food through a syringe, and she actually liked it!  She smacked her lips and tried to suck on it.  But she LOVES her cheerios and disolvable puffs!  She’d live off of that and breastmilk if she could.

Abby still has NO TEETH!  But in all honesty, I’m OK with her being a late teether because she bites when she’s done nursing most of the time.  I do, however, see the gaps where her two bottom teeth are about to come in.  She’s been very upset, but has all sorts of teething rings (including a cool vibrating teether) and Teething Tablets, Tylenol, etc.  Poor baby.

We believe that it’s a combination of her teething and the separation anxiety that’s common at this age that is the cause of her ABSOLUTE NON-SLEEPING AT NIGHT – NESS.  Let me just tell you that she was sleeping from 8 to 8 before the Christmas trip, that’s 12 HOURS!  Now she’s up every 2-3 hours at night, just screaming.  It sounds like she’s in pain (teething), and the only thing that’ll calm her down is a little comfort nursing (separation anxiety).  Mommy and Daddy are very tired lately.

I’ve switched her from 3 to 2 naps during the day, but she still only power-naps.  I guess that’s just the way she is.  She still does a great job putting herslef to sleep though.  Now she goes down awake and puts herself to sleep WITHOUT crying.  It’s much less heartbreaking this way.

Awe, our sweet little darling dear!  We love watching her grow, even though it’s going by way too fast.  And now my little sister and my cousin have babies, both born in January, both beautiful boys, both in Utah!!  We’ll be back soon enough!  We love you all!

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