Happy 10th monthday!
Amalia, Tuesday was your 10th monthday!
You've made some pretty incredible leaps this past month. You are signing more and more(mas y mas) and you are officially unconventionally mobile!
You've taken after your tia Leticia and discovered the best way to travel is by sitting up and scooting along the floor on your rump. You never liked tummy time, and as soon as you learned a way to avoid it, you would never spend more than a few seconds on your tummy, so it shouldn't be that shocking that you don't crawl on your belly like a normal kid! But strangeness aside, you are fast! I realize it isn't the most efficient way to travel, but you manage to disappear in a flash, and by the time I look up you are in another room!
Because you are the second child, you are doomed to be compared to your older brother. This began long before you were born, when you were just a little bean making me throw up more than Domingo, moving around more than Domingo, and then once you were born, being so much calmer than Domingo, and then screaming inconsolably for hours JUST LIKE DOMINGO!! Fortunately for you, your mother was not so dumb to think that "oh it's just colic, she'll grow out of it" like I did with Domingo, because really, what are the odds of two colicy babies in a row?
Well this trend of comparison continues, and again, I don't know why it surprises me so every time I make this realization, but you are so very different from your brother. You have your own little personality and are your own little person already. You are much more curious and adventurous than your brother ever was, or even is to this day. Where he is very cautious and careful, your throw caution to the wind. He never put things in his mouth, babyproofing for that reason was pretty easy. He was content to sit and look at books or toys for long stretches at a time, and didn't really feel the need to move around much. Part of the reason I think that he didn't walk until he was 15 months was that he really didn't care too much to get any where. He was pretty happy just to sit where he was and play with what he had near by.
You on the other hand cannot get enough of moving around! You want to be where ever you are not. You want to see all the action from a front row seat. And you get there fast with your swish swish, slalom-like scooting.
Along the way you put everything you get your hands on directly into your mouth. You want to eat every new food, gum every toy you pass, taste every surface you encounter, it doesn't matter that it's a public restroom mirror or the tires of your stroller-ARGH! you just want to explore the world and the best way you know how is through your mouth.
The only time something is not in your mouth is when you are trying to use it to talk to us. You are so chatty it's great. You still aren't speaking in words we can understand, but that is definitely our failing and not for lack of you trying to get us to understand! You whisper, scream, giggle, laugh, whine, and babble all the time. You are signing a few words, light, more, duck. And you get so excited when I get excited and clap when you use signs. You clap and smile and laugh, it's so great.
I am so excited for these next few months, not just because you'll be turning one, but for lots of reasons. The sun is coming out and it's warming up, we're going outside more and more. Soon we'll be swimming at abuela's or going to the cottage with grandma and farfar. And even sooner we'll get to meet baby Owl!
There is so much to look forward to. I know that you will be front and center to see it all.
Love Mama.
You've made some pretty incredible leaps this past month. You are signing more and more(mas y mas) and you are officially unconventionally mobile!
You've taken after your tia Leticia and discovered the best way to travel is by sitting up and scooting along the floor on your rump. You never liked tummy time, and as soon as you learned a way to avoid it, you would never spend more than a few seconds on your tummy, so it shouldn't be that shocking that you don't crawl on your belly like a normal kid! But strangeness aside, you are fast! I realize it isn't the most efficient way to travel, but you manage to disappear in a flash, and by the time I look up you are in another room!
Because you are the second child, you are doomed to be compared to your older brother. This began long before you were born, when you were just a little bean making me throw up more than Domingo, moving around more than Domingo, and then once you were born, being so much calmer than Domingo, and then screaming inconsolably for hours JUST LIKE DOMINGO!! Fortunately for you, your mother was not so dumb to think that "oh it's just colic, she'll grow out of it" like I did with Domingo, because really, what are the odds of two colicy babies in a row?
Well this trend of comparison continues, and again, I don't know why it surprises me so every time I make this realization, but you are so very different from your brother. You have your own little personality and are your own little person already. You are much more curious and adventurous than your brother ever was, or even is to this day. Where he is very cautious and careful, your throw caution to the wind. He never put things in his mouth, babyproofing for that reason was pretty easy. He was content to sit and look at books or toys for long stretches at a time, and didn't really feel the need to move around much. Part of the reason I think that he didn't walk until he was 15 months was that he really didn't care too much to get any where. He was pretty happy just to sit where he was and play with what he had near by.
You on the other hand cannot get enough of moving around! You want to be where ever you are not. You want to see all the action from a front row seat. And you get there fast with your swish swish, slalom-like scooting.
Along the way you put everything you get your hands on directly into your mouth. You want to eat every new food, gum every toy you pass, taste every surface you encounter, it doesn't matter that it's a public restroom mirror or the tires of your stroller-ARGH! you just want to explore the world and the best way you know how is through your mouth.
The only time something is not in your mouth is when you are trying to use it to talk to us. You are so chatty it's great. You still aren't speaking in words we can understand, but that is definitely our failing and not for lack of you trying to get us to understand! You whisper, scream, giggle, laugh, whine, and babble all the time. You are signing a few words, light, more, duck. And you get so excited when I get excited and clap when you use signs. You clap and smile and laugh, it's so great.
I am so excited for these next few months, not just because you'll be turning one, but for lots of reasons. The sun is coming out and it's warming up, we're going outside more and more. Soon we'll be swimming at abuela's or going to the cottage with grandma and farfar. And even sooner we'll get to meet baby Owl!
There is so much to look forward to. I know that you will be front and center to see it all.
Love Mama.
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