Elise is ready to get on with her life. Today she tried very hard to be older than she is.
Screw crawling. She's pulling up on EVERYTHING. She wants to walk. Most dangerous is her obsession with her laundry basket. Today she was pulling up on it, standing there holding the edge and pulling clothes out one by one. But her balance isn't that great yet. Sometimes she would fall backward and land on her butt. Sometimes she would fall forward as she bent at the waist and bop her forehead on the edge of the basket. Fortunately, no tumbles INTO the basket. I kept waiting for that to happen.
Then at dinner she wanted extra food. First she ate a serving of carrots and a serving of green beans mixed together. Her two least favorite foods. But she ate them all. Then I gave her a serving of butternut squash, her very favorite-- you should see how fast she can eat it because it's really amazing. Three servings of food for dinner is her norm, and then she's usually done. But tonight, after finishing her squash, she held her little baby bird mouth open and waited for more. And waited. So I fixed her another serving of squash and she ate it all.
But she kept spitting up right before bed, and even though she'd nursed several times since dinner, the spit up was all orange like the squash. So I fed her too much. Oops. Maybe she's not ready for a whole fourth serving. Maybe a little rice cereal in with her dinner or something like that, to add some more calories but not feed her too much.
She's a big girl. And now she's trying to grow up even faster. Slow down, Baby Baby! Mommy can't keep up with you!
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