Slow Down Already........

Well. We once had an easy to manage baby. One who could be left in a spot, and stay there (or scootch around at a very slow pace). Not anymore!

It all started on Thursday. Dad put Eladia down for her noon nap. He didn't think much of any danger; the worst that might happen is Eladia gets a rug burn on her nose (she has decided she would rather drag her face across the floor than stay in one spot). The only other thing that might happen is for Eladia to roll into the bumper pad.

No worries, until Dad heard a strange noise and exclamation from Eladia on the monitor....

It was time to drop the crib mattress already; quite the milestone. Mom and Dad could only wonder when the next milestone would be reached.

They didn't have to wait long. Friday morning Dad was saying hello to Eladia while he sat down to work. Then he quickly looked back. Somebody was sitting up.

Later that morning also brought a scare. Eladia had been sleeping, and sleeping, and sleeping, and eating, and eating, and eating recently. Yet, when Dad used the scale to weigh her, she had barely put on much weight in a month. He charted it; she had dropped from the 95th percentile to the 60th percentile. What was Dad going to tell Mom? Twenty minutes later he had an answer. Eladia had also grown a little over two inches (shot up from the 60th percentile to the 90th). That explains some things.

So, that was a lot of development for two days. Mom and Dad were definitely tired. Almost too tired to keep up the planned ignoring during Eladia's temper tantrum Saturday morning. Well, to be fair, Mom discovered (later that day) the "temper tantrum" was actually the pain from tooth number 2 poking through (oops!). Then Saturday night came. Wait! Was that? Yep! She actually made her first real crawl moving her arms and legs in succession.

Sitting up, crawling. Eladia should be a happy baby now. Except.... who really wants to crawl?

When Daddy tried to help Eladia practice standing on Sunday morning, Eladia had a better idea. If only she didn't need help.


So, that was that. In a matter of a few short days, Eladia went from an easily monitored baby to needing to be watched like a hawk.

Whew! That was a lot of work.