this one snuck up on me and i totally would have missed it if rowan wasn’t obsessing over dates right now (in anticipation of playing “daddy trains” on the 19th). not much new going on this month, so i’ll just leave you with some photos i took today.
This past month has been significantly easier than the one before. I’m not exactly sure what prompted the change in Muriel’s behavior, but whatever the reason I am grateful. She’s much less fussy. She will ride in the Ergo on my back and the stroller for longer stretches before getting angry. She doesn’t spend all morning crying anymore because I have to get the big kids and myself ready and can’t hold her all the time. Nights are kind of hit or miss, but more often than not she has decent nights with only one waking. Thank goodness!
Other milestones? She has four teeth now-two on top, two on bottom. She has ditched the pacifier completely and relies on her two fingers and her duck (reminds me of Rowan). She LOVES to eat, though interest in breastfeeding is decreasing rapidly. But I guess that’s not a surprise given her history. She sits up unassisted and just the past few days has started crawling on all fours rather than the army crawl. She pulls herself to standing on anything more than five inches off the floor. Just normal baby stuff that I of course as her mother find fascinating!
scrunchy faced, crooked grin:
Standing:
getting into mischief:
better than a paci:
Muriel adores legos–definitely her favorite toy:
Wish you all could meet her.
Until next month!
Muriel turned into a little monkey girl these past couple of weeks. It feels like it’s been longer, but it can’t have been since I know she wasn’t doing these things at 6 months. It’s been a long, long, long month. One of those months where instead of mourning the passing of another month of Muriel’s babyhood, I am thankful that we are another month closer to babyhood being over. Also thankful that we made it the the end of another month and all of the children are still alive, and I’m not in the loony bin.
By the way, photobucket drives me nuts. It makes my pictures look like crap. But I can’t figure out how to get flickr photos into this blog.
This is as close as she is to sitting:
Rowan loves to get her to scoot herself around the apartment by scooting in front of her and staying just out of reach:
i can hardly believe that our little miss is six months old today! she sprouted two bottom teeth while we were in the alsace region of france last week. yesterday her first taste of solids. she’s been getting up on her knees more and more often, so maybe crawling isn’t too far away. and she’s getting pretty close to being able to sit up unassisted.
i started walking in the mornings about a month ago to help speed along my body’s return to it’s normal weight. but it’s turned out to be good for many other reasons. it’s very peaceful to be out in the mornings before most anyone else is up. peaceful is a good way to start off the mornings, which are usually a frantic rush to get everyone ready to go for the day. i need a little zen before being inundated with chaos.
the lake is always so beautiful, even when i get rained on like i did today. which makes me really appreciate living where we do. something i have a hard time doing way too often! well anyway, i’m just going to leave you with a picture i took today. i’ve been meaning to post about my morning walks for weeks, and then today was going to be the day, and i was going to really put some thought behind my words, but now it’s suddenly 11:30pm, and i’m going to be up for the day in five hours, so am feeling all hurried. however, i am going to post anyway because i refuse to put it off any longer!
Daffodowndilly
She wore her yellow sun-bonnet,
She wore her greenest gown;
She turned to the south wind
And curtsied up and down.
She turned to the sunlight
And shook her yellow head,
And whispered to her neighbour:
“Winter is dead.”
-AA Milne
Here’s what it looks like around Morges:
tree branches getting ready for leaves
poor rowan was so excited to go to the beach and play with the beach toys on the first day of spring. but it was too windy. the kind of windy that takes a lot of effort to walk against and blows dirt into your eyes.
pretty pink blossoms.
the sun’s been out so much, i finally got some sunglasses for my little vampire, who screams like a banshee anytime the sun shines in her eyes.
i’ve been wanting to make an easter egg tree for years, and this is the year i’m actually going to do it! the branches are all ready, i just need to get enough eggs. niamh’s allergy is slowing me down a bit, but i’ve got some baking planned for this weekend!
the chocolate eggs in this boulangerie window display look like they’re dressed up to dance at a vegas show.
May the blessing of light be on you—
light without and light within.
May the blessed sunlight shine on you
and warm your heart
till it glows like a great peat fire.
i won’t steal pat’s thunder by posting too much about our day. we had our american neighbors over for dinner. it turned out quite nice overall, but there were a few stressful moments. will i ever be too old to call my mom in tears so that she can bail me out of impending disaster (in this case cooking)? no, i don’t think i will.
i made these cute little boxes for the kids and filled them with gold chocolate coins.
found the template at this super cool website called The Toymaker that has all sorts of little paper toys you can make for kids. love it!
hope you all are having a good saint patrick’s day!
i can’t believe that muriel will be ready for solid food in just one month. crazy! i have this rather desperate, unrealistic hope that eating real food will help her sleep at night…it didn’t work with the other two, but who knows. this time could be different, right? niamh has finally learned how to say muriel’s name, before she’d just been saying “baby” or “little miss”. rowan, a couple of weeks ago, said that “muriel is my best baby ever!”
today:
a couple of days ago:
