Paige pulled herself up to standing yesterday. She crawled over to the bookself and slowly looked at the DVD's on the first shelf for a little while, and then one by one put her hands on the 2nd shelf. Then with shaky legs she slowly moved one leg at a time from being on her knees to putting her feet flat on the ground and standing up straight! So cute! She attempted to do it a bit later again, but had a minor fall and cry. I am sort of sad because I know that we should soon move her crib down to the next level. Her crib only has 2 levels, so this will be it. I like having her up high, it is nice to be able to just lay her down softly if she has fallen asleep while eating. Also, with her continual wakeups lately and soother plugs it is much easier to find her soother and drag her back to the center of the crib without having to drop the side of the crib and make a big fuss. Also, we change her clothes and her diaper in her crib right now which is a lot easier on the back than doing it on the floor. I guess we are supposed to take down the mobile in her crib too once she can pull herself to standing...also sad. She is becoming less and less of a baby.
well--one thing...she HATEs having her clothes changed and cries when we put her arms in sleeves, which is something she used to do when she was new. I wonder if some of her clothes are too small and she is traumatized by having her arms forced through sleeves.
I find that with this interupted sleep lately, that I am dreaming a lot more. I also find that I will have some boring dream, and then once I am up with Paige my mind finds it hard to think of anything but the boring dream, and I am unable to go back to sleep. Then, the next night, somehow my mind will dredge up the same stupid dream from the night before and think that I should be dreaming about it again. It's like one night of broken sleep rolls into the next. Although, the nights seem to be getting back to 2-3 wakeups now which is better than 6.
I weighed Paige the other day and she weighs 20 lbs. I found a percentile calculator online which says for her weight and age she would be in the 89th percentile!! She is getting quite substantial. You would think she would be smaller since her crawling is getting so quick!
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OH MY, I sure can identify with her not being a "baby" any more. Imagine, standing up. OMG. With her doing more and more things all the time, she will sleep better, I am sure. I know how hard it is to get enough sleep for Mama. I am not sure what the answer is to keeping her from rolling into the sides of the crib, but at the rate she is growing, it won't be long before she goes into a "little girl" bed. Chin up C.A. this stage doesn't last forever. Love Gramama
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