She walks, talks, sits at the table, does not eat baby food, and loves to give high fives. Sounds like my baby grew up. Motherhood is hard that way. I am so excited to watch her grow and feel blessed that she is healthy and active but am sad that my baby is becoming a little girl. Oh the conflict! Mostly I just adore her and that will never change.
I can see in Alice the great desire to be big. She wants to do everything Scarlett does but she is still little. I know when she can walk consistently that she will be more content, she just wants greater mobility. With that said she is a very fast crawler and gets into everything. She goes up and down the stairs faster than me. She gets on her belly, pushes the top step with her hands and then slides on down. It is pretty amazing to watch. When she is wearing fleece pajamas she slides down in 2 seconds, like a baby rocket! This girl also loves bath time. Her and Scarlett play best together in the bath. Scarlett squirts Alice and they both giggle with delight. It's warms my mommy heart to see my two girls be friends.
Her favorite thing to do these days in use everything as a walker. The baby stroller, mini grocery cart, empty boxes, and chairs. She just pushes it all around and smiles the whole time. Alice is happy, quiet, and loves to get praise for all her "tricks". She also loves me best!
This made me laugh yesterday. "mom, mom look I got my ears pierced. I so, so pretty now. Take a picture."
just shoved those bad boys right into her ear. Thank goodness it did not cause damage
I was searching for my GF's blog and came across your interesting one. Started reading about your 11 month girlie-girl similar to our dd. I had to laugh when you said, "..."mom, mom look I got my ears pierced. I so, so pretty now. Take a picture...just shoved those bad boys right into her ear. Thank goodness it did not cause damage."
ReplyDeleteWelcome to the world where little girls want to be like mommy. She sees your pretty earrings and wants to feel pretty too. Mommie, it may be time to accept the fact and go ahead and take her to have them pierced when you can care for them properly. We had to get her ears pierced at 14 months.
Our dd went through clip ons, stickers and magnetic earrings, but with no satisfaction. When I told her to ask daddy about earrings, he casually said yes, but didn't quite understand she was asking for having her ears pierced now. I had to tell her she wasn't old enough too. That lasted about a month until her baby girl cousin, aged 6 mos showed up for a visit with cute little gold balls in each ear! Again, she wanted to know why her baby cousin had earrings and she didn't? Dh chimed in and wanted to know too ): He kept telling his sister how cute her dd, Amelia, looked with earrings. In fact he strongly hinted he wanted our dd's ears pierced soon as well. The pressure was on now and the cards stacked against me. As an out, I told dh that I would ask our ped. Well, I didn't expect what happened next.
Our ped actually encouraged me to go ahead saying it was best when mommy could care for them. She said it have become more popular to pierce little girls ears because is safer with the newer ear piercing instruments. She gave me some tips which included some OTC meds to minimize any discomfort.
Does this sound familiar? One day, dh calls out to me from the family room asking me to come in there. Our dd had gotten a pair of my earrings and was asking dh how to put them in her ears! She almost put one in her ear canal!" Dh laughed and told me to take her to have them pierced before we had to take her to the ER to remove an earring! At this point, I was ready and told dh I started seeing other little babies including two in church nursery and another little girl in our playgroup. I finally realized how cute our little girl would look with cute earrings and yielded to pressure.
I'd say if your dd is girlie girl and you've remotely thought about it, then it may be time to go ahead having her ears pierced. Your mommy intuition maybe telling you now is better. Write me an e-mail for our ped's tips if you'd like them.
Angie
Angietune@hotmail.com
She is so big! How did that happen? BTW, I miss you and our Tuesday runs more than you know.
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