Amber Ries

March 5, 2006

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Yup, she's 5 Months! <br>This is a scraplift of Tracy Kyle from the DWCalendar from 2005 (22/23 January). <br>Supplies:<br>Patterned papers: Tracy Robinson's Artlines 2, Cartwheels (scrapbookbytes)<br>metals: Nancie Rowe Janitz<br>daisies: Ali Folendore (scrapbookbytes)<br>stitches: Jen Wilson<br>the other flower is my own.<br>Journaling: Darling Georgie-leinchen, Today you turned 5 months old. Five glorious months, but you have been so difficult the past few days that I am sitting here absolutely exhausted and not feeling at all like praising your virtues, but rather like expanding on your flaws. I suppose it doesn't help that with this 1st day of March, winter has come back with a vengeance. It's dark, cold and snow-storming, and all you want to do is cry and cry and cry. You won't eat or sleep unless I am lying down in bed with you and your nose has been stuffed for two weeks now, making it difficult for you to breathe. I wish I could fix it for you so you'd be a happy baby. At some point this past month, you discovered your voice. Those sweet ‘aahs’ are a thing of the past, they have been replaced with ear-piercing screeches. You screech whether happy, excited or upset. Along with the screeching, came more laughter and many, many more grins. You love to stand. When we pull you up into a sitting-position, you lock your knees and pull yourself up on your feet. You then proceed to wobble around and boogie your body like crazy, because you have no sense of balance whatsoever. When you sit, you either fall very slowly forward until you are bent in half (at which point you cry) or you topple over to one side or another and kick your legs like a bug that is stuck on its back. You have yet to come up with the idea of putting your hands out to stop yourself from falling. Remember the stomach pounding? That has not stopped, but has become more intense. You now not only pound your own tummy when excited or frustrated, you pound on whoever (or whatever) is nearby. This pounding-action also influences playtime, when you shake your dolly-rattle so hard it flies out of your hands or when you pull on the ladybug’s ring and make her wings fly open and shut while ringing the little bell. I'm pretty sure you recognize books for page-turning toys now. Once you learned you could grab onto your boardbooks and turn the pages, you started doing it whenever I put one within reach. When Liz was over on Monday, you kept trying to turn the pages of her book before she was done with the reading! Sleeping and eating are slowly becoming problems and I hope it is just a phase you are going through. Lately, you cannot sleep without nursing, but you cannot nurse unless we are lying together in bed with the static on, and even then you sometimes scream bloody murder. I'm wondering if a growth spurt is coming up or passing us by and you have pain that I can't fix. Or maybe it's just that stuffy nose. Whatever it is, whenever we walk into the living room and sit down on the couch with the boppy, you start crying. Then again, you scream bloody murder when I lay you down on the bed and continue to scream for a few minutes after we've started nursing. Do you just like to scream? Your head control is unbelievable. It is no longer necessary to watch out for a wobbly head when picking you up, and if you are held like a football, you crane your head around so you can see up. Sometimes, when you are under your play-gym, you crane your head so far back, I think any minute you will roll over onto your stomach! When you are sitting in my lap, you often turn your head up to look at me, as if to make sure I am still there. All in all, when you are sweet, you are irresistable, and when you are fussy and upset, I want to pull out all the hair I have left in frustration! Happy 5 months birthday!

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