Eleanor is 6 months old today. To celebrate, someone switched our sometimes cranky, non-napping infant with a darling child who appears to inhale Nitrous Oxide on the sly every hour and is beginning to develop something resembling a nap schedule. This kid now seriously spends most of her day sitting around and laughing and smiling. She’s working on tooth number 3 but as long as I give her Baby Smack (berry-flavored ibuprofen) every 6 hours, she doesn’t make a fuss about it. Solid foods, especially cream of wheat and applesauce, make her whole body shake with the pleasure of anticipation every time spoon travels from bowl to mouth. Sure, she still wakes up twice a night and can be a bear if she skips a nap but it’s nothing I can’t handle (although the 4:30 wake-up this morning is unsustainable, as I told her multiple times).
I love this kid and I adore being her mother. Hopefully this feeling will be enough to carry us through our non-direct flight to South Carolina next week.
Cream of wheat and applesauce…just wait till she gets a taste of peanut butter, pumpkin pudding, marzipan, chocolate fudge! I know, I know. We want to keep her on a healthy track. But, oh, the pleasures that lie ahead for her baby palate!