My sweet Claire. I would love to call her that all the time. She is quite a happy and content baby. Except when she is hungry. Oh. My. Goodness. She can be all happy and smiles, then suddenly she decides that it is time to eat and she seems to go ballistic. She is screams with such an intensity that you hope feeding her will calm her down (it does). She will start flailing her legs and then, as soon as she gets the bottle in her mouth, her legs will completely stop, she gives a little sigh a relief and everything is perfect in her world again. Then, after she finishes her bottle, she is all smiles and grins, giggling, and joyful. A full belly for this girl makes for a happy baby!
She is now sitting up all on her own. She does occasionally incur a gravity storm and tumps over, but she is usually unfazed by it. She just kind of lies there with her head held up like a crunch, looks around to determine which way to roll, then rolls herself over to her stomach. From here, she is ready to go. She can now get up on her hands and knees, but does not know what to do from there. She will rock a little bit, then flatten out so she can start the scooting. It is amazing how far she can move around the room when you are not looking.
I have started giving her the little snacky-snacks. They are little fruit flavored bite size pieces that are about the size of Cheerios. The good thing about them is that they melt in her mouth. After about 2 seconds in her slobbery mouth, they shrink to about 1/4 of the size and turn to mush. This is a good thing since she does not have any teeth to chew them with. The older kids love to feed them to her. She cannot pick them up just yet, so they have to put the snacky-snack right into her mouth. She is overjoyed by this, as are they. She just sits in her Bumbo, on the table and they all take turns putting them in her mouth. So, so cute.
She is finally cutting teeth. I just noticed one tooth peeking out right before the 30th, and now there is another one cutting through. She actually is slobbering less than before, even though the actual teeth are now there. She is having a harder time making it through the night without fussing, but I guess that is to be expected.
I LOVE MY SWEET CLAIRE!
