See ya later Mama and Dada

In the past few weeks Mavity has learned so many new tricks! When you say "see ya" or "hi" she will wave at you. She can say "ma ma" and "da da". She sometimes says "na na" and "ba ba" too. And most recently she has learned to crawl. Well kind of crawl. She does the army crawl on her belly, it is very cute!!!

Her favorite game is sneak attack on the kitties! It is hilarious! She, however, has not mastered the "sneak" part of sneak attack. She gets up close enough where she can almost touch them (which I thought was the goal) and then she SCREEAAMMS! And the kitty runs away. It is quite funny to watch. Sometimes she gets ahold of a tail and tries to stick it in her mouth, resulting in the kitty's tail being pulled beyond capacity and crying and momma telling her "no no". She still thinks this to be a fun game and continues pulling and grabbing at the kitty till she has a fist full (or mouth full) of hair.

Also since the crawling we have had to discipline (well kind of). There is a cable on the ground and she thinks that this is her property. She will crawl over to it shake it wildly and scream and then try to eat it. To this I have said, "no no Mav, that's not for you." To which Mavity said, "hahahahaha". Seriously! I told her no, she looked at me and started laughing, like no was the funniest word she had ever heard! It is a good thing she is the cutest girl on the planet!

Good news, her sense of humor is intact! The other day she was crawling towards me and I said, "oh are you coming to see momma?" Her response, "nnn, Da da!" To which I said, "good luck, Da da's at work and thats a long crawl." She didn't think that was funny at all. =)

Finally Mavity can sit in the cart at the grocery store like a big girl! And she loves it. Up until last week I had been carrying the 40lb car seat into the store and putting that on the cart. UGH, it was building muscles but it was also straining them! I love that she can sit in the cart and so does she! She can now reach for things and pull them off the shelves, fun! We went to Costco the other day and she actually got to have free samples with me. They had some mashed potatoes and dried fruit and she had a blast, well until there were no more free samples for her to have and then she screamed! It was honestly the first time she had ever gotten mad at me when I took something away from her, thats when I knew she was growing up. YIKES. She can also, now sit in the stupid high chairs at restaurants. I'm not sure who invented those things but they are DUMB!!! But at least she can now sit in the dumb thing with out falling out. Yesterday we went out to eat and she sat in the high chair and grabbed for everything on the table, it was funny! I think she enjoys being a big kid.

I'm so excited for all the new things she is doing but it also makes me sad to think she is growing up so fast! I can't believe we are already half way to 1 year. It seems like just yesterday I was praying to everything holy to get that child out of my body and now here she is, 6 months old. I was telling my mom that Mav was such a big girl now and was drinking from a bottle, sleeping through the night etc and my mom said, "looks like it's time for another kid." I thought about it for a second and then said, "NO WAY IN HELL!" I'll wait at least 2 more years before we do this again. I love her more than anything but she is a lot of work! I couldn't imagine having 2 babies just yet, let alone being pregnant while taking care of 1! Ah, the joys of motherhood!

Installing a TV on my chest

Since the day Mavity was born we have been enjoying the bonding of mother and daughter through nursing. Apparently we have bonded enough because Mavity has decided that this is no longer for her. Maybe she is just too grown up to be seen sucking on her momma's tatas. I'm not sure the reason but I'm sure that it's happening before I'm ready. When nursing she seems to be more interested in turning around so she can see the TV. So I've decided that to keep her interested in nursing I'm going to install a TV right into my chest. This way she can watch TV and nurse all at the same time. To this idea the Daddy man said, "don't tempt me." Since she has been less and less interested in me she has become more and more interested in the bottle. I feel replaced by a piece of plastic! She would much rather have a bottle than me. That is very sad for me. I'm making light of it but thats only to hide the fact that I am broken up about it! Before she was born I had planned on nursing until she was 6 months old, I figured that would be the time that I would be going back to work. After I started nursing I changed my mind and decided that I would like to nurse her until she was 1. Well we are at 6 months and I'm not working and I would like to still nurse. But it is not to be.

I really have to just feel fortunate because some mom's can't breastfeed at all. Or they get to the point where they are ready to wean the baby and they have a hard time of it. I got to nurse for 6 months and the weaning part she did on her own. I've kind of conceded to the idea. If a bottle is what makes her happy then a bottle she will have. I'm a softy.

So, not to point out how perfect my child is but...Mav is so grown up and mature that she no longer needs or wants me to rock her sleep. I loved rocking her to sleep or at least to sleepyness. She now will fight me until I put her in her crib so that she can fall asleep on her own. Again, I know that I should feel lucky because most parents have a hard time getting their little ones to go to sleep on their own, but I enjoyed the rocking to sleep and I didn't mind her needing me to help her fall asleep.

I know what you are thinking, "WHAAA, poor Momma, has the perfect no fuss child that weans herself and goes to bed on her own, must be terrible." Well to me it's all just happening to fast and maybe I would like to keep her a tiny baby for a bit longer. The grass is always greener on the other side. And maybe I'm not really complaining that these things are happening maybe I'm just pretending to complain so I can rub it in everyone's face. Nope, I'm complaining for real. =)