Just days old

1 month old

2 months old

3 months old

4 months old

5 months old

Sometimes when Greta wakes up from a nap, I tell her how much she has grown in just a couple hours.  Looking back on the last 6 months, it’s incredible.  She has grown, literally, before my eyes.  It is a miracle to watch.  There are definitely some things I miss about a newborn.  I miss the way Greta used to let me hold her.  I should have never complained about her never letting me put her down.  She doesn’t like to be cradled like a little baby anymore.  She wants to be upright and in the action.  Now, after her baths at night, I wrap her up in her towel real snug and I tell her for a couple minutes she is going to be my little baby again.  I hold her and cradle her and she wriggles the whole time.  She is still my baby.  She doesn’t sleep like she used to anymore either.  I am learning that my 6 month old wants to play!  She wants to roll around and almost crawl to get her toys…and when I am not looking–I think she DOES crawl.  One of these times I’ll catch her and figure out how she moved several feet forward.  She doesn’t have time to sleep, at least that is what I pretend she is telling me as she is figuring out the best way to chew on her Brown Bear Brown Bear What do You See book.  She is getting better at naps.  We are working up to two a day.  She is fighting it, but she always has.  I have learned that soft hymns and a little silky blanket help.  And by evening we are ALL ready for bed.  Bath time right around 6 and she is usually asleep by 6:30.  Chris and I then make dinner …who am I kidding… CHRIS then makes dinner (hehe) and we get some talking and snuggling and HGTV in, before we hit the sack ourselves.  Truthfully, I am exhausted.  Every day, I am tired and I have the bags under my eyes to prove it.  But I am grateful.  I love my little girl.  I don’t love that she still wakes up at 5 or 5:30 to eat…but I think we’ll work on that in these next couple weeks. Every month it seems to get a little easier in some aspects, but new challenges always arise.  The latest is trying to figure out what foods are easiest on her little tummy. Peas aren’t…Pears are.  Bananas are…Sweet Potatoes, well, we are still trying to figure that out.  I am only nursing her 4-5 times a day now, which I am grateful for–but now I am seeing it is so much quicker to just nurse her than spend 20-25 minutes at the highchair trying to help her concentrate on eating and forget about my painted toes.  Ohhh Greta, I love you little girl.  She is so forgiving.  She never remembers that I let her whimper until she fell asleep or left her in her bouncy horse a little too long so I could get a shower.  She quickly forgives when I take my magazine or shoe or whatever she managed to get a hold of and replace it with a plush elephant.  She has taught me so much about myself and my potential in the past 6 months. 

                                            …it’s really been SIX months. Whoa…