Katharine Lange: Arwyn Week 30: Reverse Scooting

In her quest for movement, Arwyn has added pushing and scooting in reverse to her repertoire. I'm still used to her not moving, so it keeps surprising me when I put her down and come back a few minutes later and find her in quite a different spot. The other day I put her in the middle of her room, and she managed to reverse herself into the corner and get stuck under the swing! It was pretty funny for me, but she was sure annoyed. She's still fighting the whole food thing. I tried giving her soft sticks of food, a technic called Baby Led Weaning, and she did like picking up and chewing on the soft carrot and pear sticks, but in she still spit them all out. So weird! The 10th of January marked the first time that she actually slept on her tummy for a long stretch of the night. She's about 50/50 back vs. tummy for sleeping now. And, I was really excited because she started sleeping through the night again, but it only lasted a few days and then she was back to one wake up. She's keeping with her motto of being consistently inconsistent!

Even though we should be concentrating our efforts on Arwyn, we've decided to make another big push on expanding Leia's eating habits. And low and behold, it worked...she actually ate a turkey burger this week! We've had a couple occasions recently to adventure up the street to Jody's house, and it's now one of Leia's favorite things. Partly because she really likes talking to Jody, and partly because she gets "red nuts" every time we go. In case you were wondering, red nuts are actually red jelly bellys, and she only gets 3, but they are very special. It's almost more important to keep them in her pocket than to actually eat them...such a crack up! Leia is also on a cleaning kick these days. She pulls out her Swiffer mop, puts on her cleaning gloves so she won't get blood on her hands (not sure if she's really talking about blood or blisters here), puts on her special cleaning slippers, gets me in a matching "uniform," and them we "clean the hosipol." She even stands on the edge of the mop and pushes with her foot to get the extra leverage on the tough floor spots, just like they really do at the hospital. They do take regular walks through the hospital at school, but it just seem possible that she'd have been able to study their cleaning technics down to such detail; Josh and I are absolutely amazed! Last funny Leia story happened one morning when I was letting her stay in bed to talk/play by herself awhile before getting her up. She's usually pretty happy to do that, and just calls us when she's ready. This day she calls out, "Mommy, Daddy, You miss me, I've been sleeping all night!" I just had to burst out laughing because it was so funny even though it was true, it's something I say to her sometimes, and it was a perfectly legitimate reason to give us for why we should get moving and come get her! She just amazes me how she comes up with this stuff.