Our little girl is getting so big! Here she is at 19 weeks. All smiles!
Hey, Baby Z! What's that? It's the zebra your Godmother Alex brought back for you from her trip to South Africa! Z is for Baby Z, and Z is for zebra, too! (Zebras are very serious business. This is a full-on zebra stare-down, folks!)
And at 20 weeks. No smile. If she was smiling, she wouldn't be able to put the 'Z' in her mouth, and everything goes in her mouth.
Over the past few weeks, Lila's personality has really emerged. She laughs more, talks more, and you can watch the wheels turning as she interacts with the world around her. She didn't used to take any interest in the dogs, no matter how interested they were in her, until just recently. Now she talks to them and laughs whenever they are nearby. Ed was petting Wally while holding Lila the other day and Lila reached out and grabbed Wally's ear. The look on Wally's face was priceless! "This was NOT part of the bargain when you brought that baby home!"Oh, the grabbing. She grabs everything now! I love watching her excitement when I dangle a toy in front of her face. She lights up and then reaches for the toy, taking it in her own hands and then straight into her mouth.
Lila definitely went through a growth spurt over the past few weeks. Our little sleeper, who was only waking once in the middle of the night, suddenly decided that sleep was nowhere on her 'to do' list and gave it up almost entirely. It has been a really rough couple of weeks. The lack of sleep paired with the sudden increase in her milk intake are, I guess, classic signs of a growth spurt. I've heard there's another big one around 8 months. At least this time we'll be somewhat aware of what's going on, because we were completely caught off guard this round.
I still think that Lila is teething. She puts everything in her mouth, and she can chomp down on fingers and hands with a vengeance. The other night she put a soft toy in her mouth and bit down and then wailed. We couldn't figure out what was wrong, and nothing we did soothed her. I finally stripped her naked to see if she had a bug bite or something in her diaper, but found nothing. Finally we concluded that her gums were sore and the chomping aggravated the pain. She's drooling like a mad woman, so we're hoping that these are all signs that a tooth (teeth?) will break through the gums sooner rather than later.
It's getting harder and harder to leave Lila at daycare every day. She's just so much fun! She laughs and smiles and plays, and all I want to do is stay home with her and watch her so that I don't miss a single thing. She does really seem to be enjoying daycare, though, and I know that they are so good to her.
Tonight Ed will be out with friends and I'm looking forward to some girl time, just Lila and me. I do love watching Lila with her daddy, but sometimes I just want to have her all to myself to snuggle and blow raspberries and giggle with all evening long.
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