Last week felt like all of a sudden, Emily turned into a big girl. It was surprising to see all her new developments!
Sy and I noticed that Emily now grunts when she poos! When she's trying to get some poop out, she legit goes ughhhhh as she pushes it out! We find it so funny and cute! She'll be drinking from her bottle, and then she'll stop drinking and start making those grunting noises. At first, we didn't know what to make of it. Was she unhappy with the food? Was she tired? Did she need to burp? And then we finally figured out the grunting came right before a poo came out! She's legitimately turning into a regular person who needs to push out her poo. It no longer just comes out unconsciously. When did she turn into an adult??
Another new development - Emily so far has never really been one to put stuff in her mouth. She mainly eats her own fist and fingers, but never really had a desire to put anything else in there. But just last week, she tried to eat the hanging mirror on her play gym! She was trying to bite it, lick it, put as much of it into her mouth! I was so surprised! Interestingly, that's the only thing she wants to eat so far. Doesn't put anything else in there. It'll be cute to see her put other objects in her mouth.
We also discovered that Emily has learned how to move herself! When you put her down in her crib to watch her mobile, when I go to check in on her about 15 min later, I'll find her perpendicular to where I had originally laid her down. It's so fascinating to know she figured out how to maneuver herself! I tried to watch her do it once through the monitor, but each movement is so subtle, so slight that you don't realize she's moving at all. Until all of a sudden you check, and bam! - she's moved 90 degrees! Good thing she's in her crib. We now know we can't trust her to lay still if we put her on the couch or bed.
Putting Emily down for naps is continuing to be difficult. The new thing now is that she whines as you rock her to sleep. It's this very obvious whine (different from a cry) that is loud and very vocal. You can tell she's tired bc she will have her eyes closed the whole time, or she'll have very heavy eyelids. And yet, she is just moaning and groaning and whining the whole time in this deep-sounding sorrow/annoyance. I find the whines pretty funny and I have to hide my laughter and smiles.
This weekend was Father's Day. We had a pretty busy Saturday as we had to go to NJ to celebrate with my family, and then go to Long Island to celebrate with Sy's family. Poor Emily had a really rough day. She hates the car, so she cried pretty much the entire hour drive to NJ. So she didn't nap during the car, and then she couldn't sleep at my parents' place bc it was just too loud for her. And then she didn't sleep in the hour car ride back to our house. So she finally slept for about 50 min at home before we went back out to Long Island, in which she didn't sleep for that car ride, and then stayed up all the way to her last feeding of the day. She was so exhausted and slept for an hour. But then she woke up again and we brought her outside to hang out by the campfire at 9pm. I was so worried about her not getting enough sleep, but she survived. We got home and put her to sleep around 10pm, and the poor girl must have been so tired that she was cranky all day Sunday. I seriously wonder if Emily hates the weekends bc we put her through so much annoyance and disturbance to her routine on the weekends. Does she feel angry at us for making her do things she doesn't want to do when all she wants is to just go home and be in her own home and take naps at the proper times? We're very sorry Emily. We hope you understand when you're older that your parents just have busy schedules.
I can't believe June is already coming to an end soon. How does time go by so fast? Each day feels so long, but the weeks fly by. Time slow down!
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