Miriam at 14 months
Nov. 18th, 2008 02:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scottahillHaven't done a Miriam update in a while. She has done a good job at mastering walking in the past 2 months: she moves pretty fast, and recovers from wobbles which would have knocked her down a month ago. She loves to go exploring, having no qualms about leaving the room or walking way down the sidewalk away from Daddy when she's in the mood. (Although it's different if Daddy leaves the room, of course.) A tree in our yard has some sort of fungal infection which results in little orange fluffy balls on the leaves, which Miriam has always been interested in (she doesn't try to put them in her mouth anymore, thank goodness-- SHUDDER), so Jen decided to buy her little cotton balls of assorted colors, as a substitute. Miriam loves to carry these around with her, one in each hand, and when she goes to pick something up she tries just to use the tips of her fingers so she can continue to hold the cotton ball. Maybe that's improving her fine motor control? :)
She loves keys and locks. If I give her my keys when we're outside, she'll immediately select the key for the car (I have no idea how she figured that out), go over to the car, put the key up near the lock, and try to insert it. She hasn't managed to get it in yet, but then again she is rather short. :)
Her hair is getting very long, particularly in the front. We would trim it, but we're not sure what we're doing with it. I lean towards being practical and giving her bangs, but Jen (who actually has long hair) thinks maybe she shouldn't have bangs, but keep the hair pushed out of her face. While we decide, we leave the hair alone as it grows. ;) We put a barrette in her hair from time to time, and she likes having the barrette there, but hates having it put in, and of course it doesn't last very long.
She tends to go to sleep about 7:30 or so when we're home, depending on how fast we are. She isn't nursed to sleep, so I've been able to put her to sleep without too much difficulty: rock her for 15 minutes, put her in the crib and turn on the music, she cries for a minute, and then she's asleep until 5:30 or so. We have our spare mattress on the floor in Miriam's room (in addition to the crib), so when Jen's home, she'll take Miriam down onto the mattress and nurse her back to asleep until 7am or so. Not having functional breasts, I haven't been able to get her back to sleep so she's been up earlier while Jen's been away (she's at a conference right now, did I mention that? Back tomorrow.) Her napping is ridiculously variable: from one 15-minute nap all day to a pair of 1-hour naps to a 2.5-hour nap at one time. When I want her to fall asleep, I've pretty much settled on walking her around in the stroller, which doesn't always work. When it does work, I have been known to reward myself by walking over to the nearby Sonic and having a drink or french fries (easier to do than hauling the stroller inside when I get home).
Oop, babysitter's here: free time starts now! Yay! More later.
EDIT: Miriam was NOT happy for her babysitter, crying most of the time (it's her usual babysitter, but not her usual time). When I got home, Miriam immediately went to me, started waving her hand, and said "Ba!" (as in "Bye!") to Dani in a sulky manner. It seemed awfully 2-year-old of her: my little girl's growing up! :P
She might not have been happy, but I was ecstatic to have the time off. I'm so much happier to see Miriam now, than I was a few hours ago. She's also pretty mellow now that she has me back, lying around on the couch playing with a pencil, a ball, and her toes (although she's showing signs of movement now...gotta go. :)
She loves keys and locks. If I give her my keys when we're outside, she'll immediately select the key for the car (I have no idea how she figured that out), go over to the car, put the key up near the lock, and try to insert it. She hasn't managed to get it in yet, but then again she is rather short. :)
Her hair is getting very long, particularly in the front. We would trim it, but we're not sure what we're doing with it. I lean towards being practical and giving her bangs, but Jen (who actually has long hair) thinks maybe she shouldn't have bangs, but keep the hair pushed out of her face. While we decide, we leave the hair alone as it grows. ;) We put a barrette in her hair from time to time, and she likes having the barrette there, but hates having it put in, and of course it doesn't last very long.
She tends to go to sleep about 7:30 or so when we're home, depending on how fast we are. She isn't nursed to sleep, so I've been able to put her to sleep without too much difficulty: rock her for 15 minutes, put her in the crib and turn on the music, she cries for a minute, and then she's asleep until 5:30 or so. We have our spare mattress on the floor in Miriam's room (in addition to the crib), so when Jen's home, she'll take Miriam down onto the mattress and nurse her back to asleep until 7am or so. Not having functional breasts, I haven't been able to get her back to sleep so she's been up earlier while Jen's been away (she's at a conference right now, did I mention that? Back tomorrow.) Her napping is ridiculously variable: from one 15-minute nap all day to a pair of 1-hour naps to a 2.5-hour nap at one time. When I want her to fall asleep, I've pretty much settled on walking her around in the stroller, which doesn't always work. When it does work, I have been known to reward myself by walking over to the nearby Sonic and having a drink or french fries (easier to do than hauling the stroller inside when I get home).
Oop, babysitter's here: free time starts now! Yay! More later.
EDIT: Miriam was NOT happy for her babysitter, crying most of the time (it's her usual babysitter, but not her usual time). When I got home, Miriam immediately went to me, started waving her hand, and said "Ba!" (as in "Bye!") to Dani in a sulky manner. It seemed awfully 2-year-old of her: my little girl's growing up! :P
She might not have been happy, but I was ecstatic to have the time off. I'm so much happier to see Miriam now, than I was a few hours ago. She's also pretty mellow now that she has me back, lying around on the couch playing with a pencil, a ball, and her toes (although she's showing signs of movement now...gotta go. :)
