1. It takes 6 spoons to feed Stella. It's probably because we only have 6 spoons for her. She's decided that she must hold a spoon while eating and then she, of course, throws it on the floor every once in a while. We give her new spoons, because she sticks them in her mouth. The books say to let her play with the utensils. They don't have the kind here that have cords on them that suction to the table.
2. She will not eat in public. We were at the weekly coffee with her friends yesterday and all of her friends were taking bottles or breastfeeding. Stella is so high strung that she will do neither and starve herself. She's too busy checking out the scenery. Then, she'll cry because she's hungry and we'll leave after I try furiously to feed her because I don't get out much.
3. She will not drink milk if there is noise. Noise is too interesting. Dan has to sit quietly on the sofa and not move if we're nursing in the other room. If one hardwood floor board creaks, she bolts up and starts looking around.
4. She doesn't like being left with Dan. Dan calls her a "skirt grabber." It was cute, at first, but her separation anxiety has become a real problem. I have to go to the dermatologist today and am dreading it. I get punished somehow later. She doesn't even like me going into the next room.
5. She's starving. We have no idea how this is possible! She woke up starving last night at 10pm and 3am. Maybe this is her 6 month growth spurt, but I thought that was a few weeks ago. She just keeps eating more and more food. Dan said she's the type to cruise the kitchen for leftovers in the middle of the night. But, then again, that's what he does.
6. She's night waking again as I described in #5. She also isn't napping well because of the separation anxiety. The morning nap is fine and she'll fuss a little bit at the 2pm nap but forget about the 5pm nap. She still needs the 5pm one though, because she's a wreck if she skips it.
7. She only likes her diaper changed when she's lying on her stomach. We'll roll her back over and she'll cry but it just doesn't work to do it the other way. I have learned to put the diaper on backward but that obviously doesn't work if there's poo in it! This started a few days ago.
8. She hates having her nails cut, as I've mentioned before.
9. She will not nap on the go. Forget about it.
All in all, she's still pretty darn cute. It's hard to get or stay mad when she's giggling all the time. The books say that babies like her are smarter than the rest, but we'll see! We predict she's going to start really crawling (not the army crawl with her stomach on the ground, which she can do) in about a week. She also has a tooth peeking out. But, not the 2 lower teeth that most babies get first. Of course, she has an upper incisor poking through because nothing about her is "normal."
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