In the last week I made an emergency trip to Baby City to buy much-needed plug covers as Lily discovered them with much enthusiasm. I suppose the baby proofing is starting. We now have the pool net ticked off our list, the plugs all covered up and our bottom medicine draw in the kitchen emptied. Still on our list of "to dos" is to get gates for our stairs and the highly fashionable (not) chicken mesh for the banisters at the top of the stairs. Who knew that the once OCD person I was with regards to how my house looked, is now no longer concerned with whether her house is spic and span, but rather that it's safe for Lily.
Unfortunately, due to having dogs in the house and the sliding doors open all day, our floors, even though just cleaned, are never quite spotless. There are hairs, bits of grass, little black specks and dust that seem to accumulate undetected on the tiles so when Lily goes sliding around the house, she gets absolutely filthy! I've resorted to only getting her dressed when we are heading out so she can dirty her vests all she wants until then. My husband and I have joked about putting a wash cloth onto her stomach and letting her clean the floors while she's on the move!
Lily is reluctant to crawl properly just yet, but rather opts for the leopard crawl which she accomplishes by pushing with her right leg and dragging her left leg along behind her. If she knows she is heading towards an area where she isn't supposed to crawl and I come up behind her, she picks up her pace trying to out run me. It's too cute I have to say. Even though she hasn't figured out how to crawl on all 4's just yet, she is definitely getting onto her hands and knees and rocks back and forth, but when she's ready to get from point A to B, she drops down onto her stomach and starts with the slide.
I've been reluctant to report on Lily's day time sleeping as I'm nervous about jinxing it, but I have to say that day time sleep appears to no longer be the enemy! Lily now has 2 day naps and is quite happy to be put into her cot awake and I'm allowed to walk out the room without any protest. Sometimes she falls asleep quite quickly without any sound and other times she will moan herself to sleep (no crying, just a sleepy moan). She has a morning sleep of about 2.5 hours after she's woken up and then another one after her lunch. This does vary according to what time she starts her day, but this is generally how her naps go these last 2 weeks. Her sleep times range anywhere from 30 minutes to 1.5 hours, with the longest being 2 hours which was great! But the long sleeps are few and far between, but at least there's no longer a fight to get her to have one!
On another note, Lily started her first swimming lesson yesterday and looked too adorable in her little swimsuit and her swimming cap. Too precious! The lesson was very professional and Lily loved every single moment of it. The swimming teacher warned us that she was going to submerge our babies which left me rather apprehensive, but Lily didn't even protest! She was very happy in the pool and didn't complain once. I was such a proud mommy. We are now doing swimming twice a week and even though mommy isn't loving the fact that she has to don a costume in front of everyone, it's definitely worth it to have some quality time together and to see Lily having such a fantastic time.
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| Lily on the move |
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| Practicing wearing our swimming cap! |
Shew but our two could almost be twins being born the same day! Samuel is also leopard crawling (with no sign of getting up on all fours) and getting dirtier on the stomach by the minute. He also started swimming lessons last week. Second time around and we are doing the submersion, I think, tomorrow. Still cant get my head around it ;(
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