My crazy baby is going to be the one who breaks me. But in a good way, you know?
Reese will be 7 months old in 3 days. In her 6th month she:
- Has started crawling for real - she has been army crawling for a good month now but she's up on her knees and moving
- Has a tooth! My doctor said that you take their age in months minus 6 and that's a guideline to how many teeth she should have.
- Can sit up on her own - not for long periods of time but she can do it!
- Has stood up a few times. She managed to crawl to something, put her hands on it and continue to move her feet. Then she got her feet under he and was basically standing while leaning on the ball. Fortunately, she hasn't figured out how to do this in her crib yet.
By comparison (not that you should compare your children), Addy was crawling at 7 months, didn't get a tooth until like 9 months and walked at 11 months.
Never having had 2 children before, I wrongly assumed that we knew what to expect from Reese because we'd had Addy. While I knew deep down that no 2 children are alike, I expected that Reese would develop roughly the same as Addy.
But no, Reese is in a hurry for everything apparently. I wonder if this will be an indication of her personality later in life. Wanting to blaze her own path and prove herself to be different than her sister and her own woman.
The tone of this post probably doesn't convey how in awe I am of my baby. We hit the 5 month mark and she turned into a new baby. Suddenly happy almost all the time and HUGE smiles! She loves Addy more than anything, you can tell. She's always crawling over to her and watching her and Addy can make her laugh more than anyone. I desperately hope that their relationship only grows as they do. I always longed for a sister but never got one unfortunately and I'm so happy that my girls have eachother.
In an effort to put more... effort into our relationship, C & I came up with an idea for this coming year. Well, really I stole the idea from something I saw on Pinterest and C & I modified it to suit us.
We divided up the next year into 2 groups of 6 months, we each get every other month and we each have to plan a date for that month. The date can be anything from very simple to quite elaborate, there really aren't any rules.
By Christmas, we each need to have our 6 date ideas in envelopes labeled by month and we'll put them up somewhere to keep them safe. At the beginning of each month, we'll open that envelope, see what the date idea is, get the calendar and actually plan the date!
For instance, I have January. My date idea for January is for us to go to a museum together (nerd alert!) of his choosing and then to lunch or dinner or do lunch first and then the museum. Either way.
So in January we will open the Jan. emvelope and read the date description then we will pick the day we'd like to go, contact our babysitter and make it happen!
I'm very excited about this and hope that it works and isn't something that we just abandon after a few months. The idea of the envelope is that we're supposed to plan as much as possible ahead of time. So for the museum & food, I might pick up a gift card for a restaurant we can go to.
Here's a quick list of my months and ideas:
January - Museum & lunch/dinner
March - I have already registered us to run a 5K together and then we will do brunch
May - This is our anniversary month...I think I will try to plan a fancy dinner where we get dressed up & maybe an overnight
July - Kayak trip in Cannon Falls & either a picnic lunch or grabbing something after
September - Segway tour of Minneapolis
December - I'd love for us to both skip work and spend a day together Christmas shopping but I'm not sure that will work. I might make it the main idea but have a back up in place just in case.
Other date ideas I came up with are: Dave & Busters, a brewery tour, catching a show at a Theatre, a cooking class together, just going to Happy Hour to spend time talking, Wine tasting, rock climbing...
I did buy a groupon deal for a wine tasting that I need to work in there somehow but it's kind of out of the way for the other things I have planned. Perhaps I can work it into May.
Here's to building our relationship in 2013!
