Thursday, May 13, 2010

Two new milestones reached! Yay!

Amazingly, Riley is completely surpassing all of my expectations and constantly surprising me. Today, she reached TWO milestones. She rolled completely over from her back to her stomach which shocked the heck out of me. I laid her on her playmat on her back and went to go get a burp cloth and came back to her on her stomach grinning at me. I had to laugh.

After that shocker, she decided she was having way too much fun to go to sleep. I tried rocking her, letting her lay on me, letting her lay beside me on the couch and she refused to settle down. Just when I'd think she was good to go, she'd wake up and squirm around like there were ants in her pants. Finally, I gave up and put her in her crib and turned the mobile on. Daycare told me that that is what they do when she gets tired and she goes right to sleep. So, I figured what the heck, I'll try it. She was so happy! She immediately grabbed her feet and put her hands in her mouth and gurgled happily. I watched her for a little bit and when she seemed perfectly content to keep doing that, I left the room for a few minutes. When I came back, she'd rolled herself onto her stomach and was happily looking around the room. I rolled her back over onto her back and she immediately rolled back over partially onto her stomach with her left arm under her. I turned on some rain noise on the little speaker thing we were given at a baby shower and she stayed in that position just listening to it and playing with her pacifier. I left the room again to go microwave myself some dinner and came back to check on her a few minutes later. SHE WAS ASLEEP! Oh my god, the girl put herself to sleep IN HER CRIB no less. Will wonders never cease? Now..... the big question is, will she make it through the night or wake me up at 2:00am like she does when she's in her bassinet beside me. Hmmmmm.....

Here are a couple of pics just cause I'm a showoff and she makes me so proud. Lol. This one is Riley sitting up all on her own. Of course, after about 30 seconds, she tips over, but she's getting better and better and staying in place every time!

Here, she's holding her teething ring while she chews happily. Daycare told me today that she was putting everything in her mouth so they gave her some soft chew toys and she happily slobbered away. She is DEFINITELY teething.

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