Week Forty Four

You keep crawling for real more and more.  It is exciting to watch you develop and learn all the amazing things your body can do, but you also seem more and more like a little girl and less and less like a baby.  I miss your baby self, even though your little girl self is amazing too, you are just more independent now.

We had to go back to the doctor, again, for a urine collection.  This was the fourth visit for urine collection (9 month well check, follow up that we came too soon for, follow up the following week where you would not pee after an hour and we went home with the diaper on and then collected a contaminated sample, and now one more time).  It took more than 2 hours for you to pee in the plastic diaper: I nursed you... twice, we fed you lunch, we walked, we danced, we sang, we read books, and finally you Dad made you cry, by folding you like a V until you screamed so hard you peed.  Success!  After all that drama we had to go back to the doctor two days later when your Dad was worried about a red eyelid (it was nothing more than some mild irritation).

Last, but not least.  You ate meat for the first time this week, stealing some turkey off my dinner sandwich.  You loved it, but oh my word was your poop the following morning stinky!