dear snapper,
you’ve made it to two months already! you’ve charmed everyone you’ve seen, and now there are hordes of grandmothers out there lurking, waiting for us to walk by so they can pounce out of their knitting shop foxholes and exclaim, “oh, what a darling little baby!”
alas, it’s certainly not your fault. you’re amazingly cute, which is interesting because you’re certainly more cute than the two of us put together. so i’m not sure where you’re getting the extra parts from. i hope there’s not going to be some baby mafia thugs coming by later to collect on some borrowed cuteness. with interest.
you’re getting stronger, holding your head up pretty well, and even starting to push up a little bit! you’re continuing to follow us and look at us when we talk to you, and you’ve even started to laugh a few times when we do silly things. which only encourages us to do more and more silly things. remember this when you’re in your teens and you’re embarrassed because of us: you started it.
this is also the month where you began your poop strikes and only started pooping every few days. now you stretch it out for longer and longer days, each time you wait until we say, “ok, if she doesn’t poop by tomorrow, we’re calling the doctor,” and then the next day you POOOOOOOP. and we’re so overcome with joy and poop and busy cleaning up many days of poop that we fail to notice that you’re clearly just messing with us. well played, snapper, well played.
we’ve taken you to your first two movies, both of which you more or less slept through. i don’t know if this bodes well for your film career, but you certainly can start your film review gig any day now. hmc says that it’s my fault that you’re sleeping through films, as you’re just taking after me. good girl. if we can sleep through taxi driver, we can sleep through anything.
we’ve started you on the pacifier, so you can give my pinkies a break. orthodontist bills be damned! it’s not like you have teeth yet. you’re just starting to figure out how to suck directly on your fingers, which is going to be a VERY exciting day indeed.
that’s it, i think. good job. keep growing. not too fast, though! now excuse me while i pop off to vegas to see monkeyboys and strippers.
Wow she’s growing fast. My son did a 9 day diaper strike when he was 6 months. He never acted uncomfortable but we sure were. It seems however once a week-ish is considered normal though.
Posted by: DonnaF(Powell) at November 8, 2007 10:52 PM