I am still sick. Sundays seem to be my “I never want to get out of bed again… except to heave over the toilet” day. I really dislike Sundays.<\/p>\n
The last few days after I lay in bed with my book I get gas bubbles rumbling in my belly, and a few little pops down lower which I thought might be the baby. It’s just so hard to tell, and it would be just one or two little bubbles. Well this weekend I was laying propped up in bed with my laptop doing some homework while Kate took a nap and I felt something more than just a little pop. Felt like a little rolling and squirming, in fact. Made my queasiness go up a bunch, too. But then I stopped and said, wait, what was that?! And it happened again. That was NOT gas, that was most definitely the baby. Holy smokes!<\/p>\n
I was only 9w5d that day, it seems so early for movement! Guess that means I don’t have an anterior placenta again, like I did with Kate. I still wasn’t expecting to feel anything before 12 weeks, but I guess being my third pregnancy and all… there are some benefits! It’s nice to know that it’s still alive in there… though my frequent heaving has been reassuring in that way, as well.<\/p>\n
::<\/p>\n
Kate is 17 months old! I look at her and think, holy smokes, she’s no baby. She looks like a little kid in so many ways now. Not to mention actions and mannerisms.<\/p>\n
She’s started running, this crazy, wiggly toddler-run that cracks me up every time I see it. I need to get it on video. She also likes to put her arms behind her as she leans forward and walks around, it looks like she’s pretending to fly around with a cape behind her. I have no idea what she’s<\/i> thinking when she does it, but she thinks it’s funny (probably because we laugh!). She’s also discovered how much fun it can be to turn in circles. Slowly round and round and round until she staggers around like a mini drunk. She loves it when I pick her up and spin her around in my arms, but then she most definitely will fall down trying to walk. Normally I lay her down and she just lays there for a few minutes, letting the world stop spinning around her.<\/p>\n
She’s become very interested in what we are doing. The computer, of course, remains of utmost fascination, to the point where I can’t type if she’s around because she insists on sitting on my lap and “helping.” (She’s not much help.) She wants to see what we’re doing in the kitchen now, I’ve been holding her up while Den cooks dinner so she can watch. Today I got down on the floor with a bowl and made biscuits with her (the “just add water” kind – I didn’t get fancy or anything). She loved helping me stir and then scoop out the dough onto the tray. I turned on the oven light so she could see them in there baking. And when I pulled them out I called her over to look as I picked one up and broke it open. We both enjoyed sitting on the floor saying “Mmmm!” and eating it. :) Cleaning is a big one, too – while I’m wiping her and her highchair tray down she’ll grab the cloth and wipe the tray with it. It’s also very common for me to see the broom go walking by (tall handle swaying dangerously, smacking into everything in sight).<\/p>\n
Last week we realized she was bored as hell with all the toys in the living room so we packed most of them up and put them downstairs. I brought out some others that were elsewhere, and bought a couple new ones. She is much happier now that there are less things, if that makes any sense! We really have only the basics now: blocks, nesting cups, xylophone, shopping cart, horse, tons of books, and a couple of little knick-knacks. Her favorite thing right now seems to be those cheap bead necklaces. She LOVES them. She wears them around the house all day and will put them on and take them off repeatedly. She also loves to drop them carefully into a bowl – apparently that is fascinating. The two things I bought for her I only bring out once in a while during the day: a LeapTop kids “laptop”, and a cash register. The laptop is pretty self-explanatory, of course she loves that! The cash register I hesitated on because it said ages 3+. But I had one as a kid and LOVED it and I know she loves buttons. She actually figured it out pretty quickly, and at least it holds her interest for longer than any of the simple toys once she’s figured it out. She really likes putting the coins in the top, pushing the buttons to drop them into different places, turning the handle to open the drawer. Plus as she gets older she can use it for pretend play.<\/p>\n
Her love affair with books continues, though she has now moved on to lift-the-flap books. She’s liked them for a few months but has reached a point now where she’s stopped accidentally ripping the flaps out, so I can leave them out all the time. I try watching TV or reading or heck even napping while she’s flipping through the books, but she’s started leaning back against my chest and grunting “Eh?” impatiently at every page until I say the appropriate words. But she will go through the same book, front to back, over and over and over again. I get pretty tired of saying, “No, that’s the bear!”<\/p>\n
In terms of speaking, she’s added one more word to her repertoire: “Up.” And she always says it quietly, with a very serious tone of voice; it’s a statement of intent, not a command or not a question. Other than that and the few words she has had for a while she doesn’t do a whole lot of talking. It’s still mostly dragging us around by the hand yelling, “EHHH!!!” when she wants something. Thankfully she has started nodding yes when I ask her if she wants this or that, which is extremely helpful. Her vocabulary with signs is much larger, though she only uses them when prompted. But she knows signs for a bunch of objects now, like shirt, shoes, socks, ball, fish, teddy bear, baby, orange, red (the other colors she can’t quite get her fingers to do right yet). She loves flipping through her picture books, doing the signs for each thing she sees. She’s also started pointing to things in the book when I ask her, “Where is the dog?” “Where is the ball?” Then she claps and clutches her hands under her chin with a big grin, so proud of herself. :)<\/p>\n
It really is just amazing watching her learn. I’ve been all pregnant hormonal lately and getting all teary-eyed while I hug her, rub her back and tell her I love her as I put her down for bed. I just want to hold her forever sometimes… but then she gets heavy and I feel nauseated so I have to put her down and scamper out, lol. But man, this kid is EVERYTHING to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I am still sick. Sundays seem to be my “I never want to get out of bed again… except to heave over the toilet” day. I really dislike Sundays. The last few days after I lay in bed with my book I get gas bubbles rumbling in my belly, and a few little pops down […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[568,475],"class_list":["post-3850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-baby-3","tag-kate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3850"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4570,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3850\/revisions\/4570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}