Sunny 9 for 2005 May 4

Lily is making leaps in progress. Mainly just mental and emotional progress. She is still crawling and getting better everyday, but I have mostly noticed little things about her personality changing lately. Like now when she is playing with something that is dangerous or that she might ruin and I take it away, she now realizes that I took something away from her. Whereas before I could take anything away and distract her with a new toy to play with instead. She is no longer satisfied with that. Also, she has been getting frustrated with us lately, or at least now we can tell when she is. She will clench her fists and shake them and grit her jaw and her little head starts trembling. It is so cute and hard to take her seriously when she does that.

I was just mentioning to Julie the other day that her toy basket is all filled with garbage. She loves playing with things that we use everyday, just random things. For instance there is a marker, an old chap stick, an old water bottle, paper, paper, paper (she loves eating paper), old magazine, our old cell phone with camera attachment, pieces of plastic that her book came in, old sunglasses, not to mention all her regular baby toys.

She is also naturally following a one-nap-a-day sleep schedule. This is ok by me, b/c now that she is 8 mos she can entertain herself and get around more, whereas before she could only just lay on her back or stomach and play with what you hand her so every other minute you had to fetch her toy. She also takes a 3 hour nap so I still get some stuff done. And now she is way more interactive and fun to play with. When we go on walks I can put her straight in the stroller facing out instead of her infant carrier clipped onto the stroller. She loves looking around and watching cars drive by.

I am not very glad, however, that she keeps waking up earlier and earlier every day. She is now waking up around 7:45-8:15, whereas before it was 8:30-9:00. At least I am getting used to it slowly and it hasn't been all the sudden. I do put her down at 7:00-7:30pm so all in all, I can't complain about her sleep schedule.