We’ve once again reached the age in babyhood when I think, “Babies are so easy! This isn’t hard at all!” This, of course, isn’t true, but after a parent finally starts getting some more rest and feeling like a real person again, everything is all sunshine and rainbows. And that is the only reason the human species has continued on for as long as it has.
Asher really is doing well though. He likes to very loudly tell us how he feels about everything. When he’s happy, he lets everyone know with huge smiles and cackles. And when he’s upset, he lets everyone know with window-rattling cries. He’s not one for being subtle, but I feel like he’s ridiculously happy more than he’s upset, so I’ll take it.
This month’s updates:
Eating: Asher has been eating real food! He won’t eat pureed foods and acts offended that we’d even try to get him to eat that stuff. He will take little, tiny bites of my food, preferably off of my fork. He also likes puffs and has gotten pretty good about picking them up and putting them in his mouth. He also still nurses 4 or 5 times a day. I don’t even feel like myself when I say this, but I’m kind of sad that we’re going to be done nursing in the foreseeable future. There’s something so sweet about that little contented, fuzzy head after nursing. BUUUUUUUT there’s also something really sweet about being able to be away from the kids and have them eat other food. So there’s that.
Sleeping: This has been a big month here for changing some sleeping habits. Asher has never really had an issue of going to sleep, but he had gotten into the bad habit of eating for a long time at night. Mercy did that too, I think because it’s so peaceful at night. Asher and I had to make a change though—he can’t eat all night because sometimes even Old Betsy needs a break. I didn’t want to just cut him off completely at night all of a sudden, so I started limiting how long he could nurse in the middle of the night until we got down to NONE. We just stopped the nighttime eating in the last week or so, and we’re still adjusting. For the past few nights, he has been waking up between 3 and 4 and crying and yelling about how I’m such a mean Mama and if I loved him, I’d let him eat and none of the other babies’ mamas are cutting them off at night. (This is my interpretation. He really sounds like, “WAAAAAHHHHH WAHHHHHHHH WAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!”). But then after 10-30 minutes, he GOES BACK TO SLEEP and I GO BACK TO SLEEP and we wake up in the morning with no love lost between us. I think we probably only have another night or two before he just sleeps all the way through.
Other developments: Asher loves to talk and has started more consistently saying “Mamamama” and “Dadadada.” He can sit up for a minute or so before rolling back onto the ground, and he loves to roll all over. I think he’ll be crawling before we know it!
Weight: 21.8 lbs
Clothes: Mostly 12 months, size 4 diapers
Likes: Eli and Mercy, laughing, chewing on tags, bouncing, music
Dislikes: baby food, not being allowed to roll on the changing pad, being left alone for too long
