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@mrsjyw: omg crazy!! was he showing any signs beforehand? our babies are growing up too fast

C was totally staring at me as I left her at daycare this morning. First time she noticed me leaving! SOB.

@scg00387: aw, i'm jealous that your LO is so ticklish! i try to tickle L, but she just stares at me!

@SLR: yeah. my MIL is up for the weekend and L has only seen her 2-3x in her life. so she held her for like 10 mins, and L's face kept crumpling but then i would talk to her and she would calm down...finally at the 10 min mark she started wailing! she is so uncomfortable around strangers...and outside of our home, she stares and looks around and never smiles like she does at home. either very curious or very overwhelmed by the newness of the environment.

@twoofeverything: Yep. Fussy here. I thought after WW19 we were supposed to be in a good period! It it worse in the early evening which makes me think it is related to the bad sleep we have been dealing with. Little stinker is waking ever 2.5-3 hours ever since we stopped swaddling.

@SLR: Yeah I thought WW19 was supposed to be the end, and that we would magically hit the "sunny period" on...I guess...the first day of week 20. HA.
They are doing a little better today but only slept for 20 minutes during nap #1. I have decided that I'm going to let them talk/fuss/chill in their cribs until it has been at least 1 hr. They don't even cry, so it's just my bad habit of going in to "rescue" them when I see they're awake. That ends today! I'm done with the catnaps!

@twoofeverything: my LO went through a phase of only doing short naps and I did the same thing. If he woke up after 30 minutes I'd let him fuss or play for the duration of an hour. 9/10 times he went back to sleep and sometimes slept for another 1-1.5 hours. I knew he was tired.

@SLR: My LO is definitely more uncomfortable with unknown men then unknown women. I think at day care she's used to seeing a lot of other women but it's not very often that she's around men other than her daddy. My parents were here this weekend and she definitely warmed up to my mom much faster than my dad. But but the end of their four days here she was perfectly happy to go to either one of them. I remember @MrsJacks once saying on here that a little stranger anxiety is a good developmental sign to her so I try to remember that when she is having a clingy day : )

I think we've got our first case of pink eye. E woke up with a crusty eye today so I asked the daycare if they had any cases going around. They said there had been a few and that they'd call if it started to look worse. No calls, but when I picked her up this afternoon the other eye was all goopy. I'm looking at her sleeping on the monitor now and I can already see the gunk oozing out. Ugh, I have a feeling I might have to miss work tomorrow.

How are all the November bebes? My LO is sooo close to crawling.. he can do all the actions, just not at once! It is so cute watching him inchworm/roll/pivot around. We had a weekend trip to the in-laws and he was such an angel and even fell asleep in the car seat without crying at all (LOVE the convertible, this is a first for us!)

@scg00387: M is doing great! Working hard on sitting unassisted (she can do a good thirty seconds totally unassisted with hands off the floor!). She also loves the inch worm move when she's on her belly. However she still refuses to remember that she knows how to roll from her belly to her back so after a while on her belly she fusses to be rescued. She is getting very skilled at rolling/reaching/scooting to get what she wants. Apparently at school the other day she used her boppy for leverage and rolled over to another baby and stared him dead in the eye while she stole his toy! My kid is a bully!!

@highwire: Congrats on C's first tooth. For the sake of my nips I'm hoping M is like her mama and is a late teether!

@MamaMoose: Hehe!

Wow, these babies are growing up too fast! Teeth? Crawling?!?! I’m not ready for this!

No teeth here yet, but that’s a-ok with me too. Nursing has been challenging enough lately with the constant distraction; I’m a little scared to add teeth to the mix.

E has been loving sitting lately and has gotten quite good at it! We were at a playdate with about 8 other babies her age on Saturday and the other moms were so impressed by how well she can do it. At times, she can do several minutes on her own going between tripod sitting and totally upright, no hands. I have to say that this made me feel pretty good because I feel like we’ve been lagging on all of the other milestones. I know all babies are different, but I was beginning to feel like we were on the late end for everything. She still can’t roll from front to back, but the doc said not to worry – she is plenty strong and could do it if she really wanted too.

Happy First Mother's Day!!!!!

@travelgirl1: thanks. I don't know yet. We're on the west coast and it is only 7:45am. Baby just went down for a nap and husband is still sleeping. We are goin over to my parents' house later, so we'll see. Hope you're enjoying your day!

Glad to read you had a lovely first Mother's Day @travelgirl1 @ChelseaRose and @mrsjyw! Hope everyone else had some good time with their babies, some sleep, and little of any other obligations

I slept in while DH took LO to the store where she 'picked out' flowers for me (or was held up to the display where he chose the bouquets she grabbed first). Then after they came home I fed her in bed and she took her first nap snuggled with me while I slept even longer! Yes! After that we relaxed at home, played around and got ready for having a few friends over to eat burgers and say goodbye to one who is moving.
Ellora was a sweet charmer and had a great time though she did get very tired at her normal bedtime. DH said our goodbyes to everyone while I did bath and bedtime with the little lady. Then I did a whole lot of nothing (aka TV watching) while he cleaned up the kitchen and house from the cookout. a perfect day!

So glad you all had lovely Mother's Days! I didn't get to sleep in much but LO won't tolerate not being with me when she knows I'm available so it wasn't hubs' fault. And she really was in a sweet sweet mood all day despite having the sniffles so I didn't really mind.

She also impressed me this weekend by fully mastering sitting up unassisted. She getting so big! I'll post a pic on the pic thread since that's gold.

How are all the babies? Time is flying by... sigh... I feel like she's not a baby anymore in some ways! L is sitting up better, no interest in crawling, her fav food is banana, and STTN is still hit or miss...

@kodybear: L has two teeth. It was gradual for her. I'm not sure how much it bothered her, but we blamed all fussiness on it!