The other night it took me about 2 hours to put her to sleep. She just did not want to go down. She wasn't crying or anything, she was just all swaddled up, sucking on her binki, staring at me while I bounced her on the ball. Then is was like she decided she was ready and burrowed her little head in my arm and was out in 2 minutes.
She has absolutely no interest in crawling yet, but she loves to stand up. I put her in front our ottoman, with toys on it and she will stand and play for as long as her legs will hold out. When ever she is fussy and I can't figure out what she wants, I just stand her up and it usually does the trick.
She now hates to lay down since she has discovered sitting up. For the most part, I love that she is sitting. Except for when she breast feeds. She thinks that she doesn't have to lay down to do that anymore. She really wants to stand while she eats, but she is way too tall and I just don't stretch like that. Ha Ha, so we compromise, and I help her sit on my lap (we sit belly to belly) and she eats. It is pretty funny and soooooo adorable!
Lots of babies do cute things while they breast feed, like playing with moms hair or elbow etc. but Milana scratches! She scratches like crazy. I usually always have little scabs all over my chest from her scratch fests. It relaxes her though, so I just let her do it. Its hard in the middle of the night though, when I just want to sleep while she is eating, and her little fingers are ripping my skip apart. It doesn't matter how often I cut her nails, she always gets me. She is such a character.
She is cutting her two top teeth right now and these ones are really getting to her. She hardly seemed to notice the bottom two. The tooth on the left has about a 2 week advantage over the right tooth, so she might be our little county bumpkin for a while before they are both in and evened out. Ha Ha
Traveling is really hard on her. We were in Utah for a quick family reunion a few weeks ago. A trip that should have taken us 5 hours to get home, took us 10!!! It was so awful. We stopped in Cedar, St. George and Mesquite. She just was not having it. So we are still home bodies for the most part. It is too hard for me to go somewhere when its just the two of us, I just keep saying that we will have our whole live to get out and do things.
Mila LOVES cell phones. She gets so excited when ever she sees one. She love talking to Grandma Crockett on the phone.She gets so excited and she talks and squeals and giggles. She also loves to send texts. Ha Ha Ha. Dave just hands her the phone and lets her type away, then he sends it. Lap tops are also a favorite. Dave things we need to get an i pad for her. But I know its all for him!
