... she's happy! she's healthy! and she's adorable 
I can't believe Lucy is five months old now! She gets *thisclose* to rolling over, but every time -- EVERY TIME! -- it seems, just as she's about to go over, one of her sisters does something that startles her, or draws her attention the other way
... but that's okay. I know that she's fine. I know that meeting milestones first is not a competition....
** and now for the inner dialogue... yes, a lot of this is simply for myself... because it's easier said than done.... but, I'm working on it ... I really think that Lucy is here to help me learn that I Am Not In Control. I can't *make* her meet any milestones. I can't *make* her learn to sit up. She'll do it. But right now, she's a baby. And I'm having fun with her just being a baby.... phew... end of inner dialogue **
Anyway, I'm also excited to have made it to five months of nursing! Maybe I hang around mdc too much (is that possible ), but sometimes I almost begin to forget that nursing isn't always the norm, and that even nursing through five months is considered a long time?!?!? Seriously... I cannot even fathom NOT nursing for *at least* this long! ... heh... I don't even know if Lucy would take a bottle. It's been at least three months since she has had one. The need has not come up for one, and now... well, I don't want to give her one! I like my Louie time! I love side-lying nursing!
phew... so yeah.... I think I had a 'hooray for making it four months of nursing' post... here's to five months and going strong!!
I can't believe Lucy is five months old now! She gets *thisclose* to rolling over, but every time -- EVERY TIME! -- it seems, just as she's about to go over, one of her sisters does something that startles her, or draws her attention the other way
... but that's okay. I know that she's fine. I know that meeting milestones first is not a competition....** and now for the inner dialogue... yes, a lot of this is simply for myself... because it's easier said than done.... but, I'm working on it ... I really think that Lucy is here to help me learn that I Am Not In Control. I can't *make* her meet any milestones. I can't *make* her learn to sit up. She'll do it. But right now, she's a baby. And I'm having fun with her just being a baby.... phew... end of inner dialogue **
Anyway, I'm also excited to have made it to five months of nursing! Maybe I hang around mdc too much (is that possible
), but sometimes I almost begin to forget that nursing isn't always the norm, and that even nursing through five months is considered a long time?!?!? Seriously... I cannot even fathom NOT nursing for *at least* this long! ... heh... I don't even know if Lucy would take a bottle. It's been at least three months since she has had one. The need has not come up for one, and now... well, I don't want to give her one! I like my Louie time! I love side-lying nursing!phew... so yeah.... I think I had a 'hooray for making it four months of nursing' post... here's to five months and going strong!!
Up to this point she's been the most content baby ever, but now she wants badly to do something her body can't quite manage yet, and it's upsetting to her - which is upsetting to me, because there's not much I can do about it.
