Friendship

Saturday, February 10, 2007

I haven’t been a very good friend lately. I’m so absorbed in this new role of motherhood and everything else comes second or third. It’s so cool to have friends who understand. How lucky am I?

Daily, Photo, Trinkets

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The bar that never closes

Friday, February 09, 2007

We gave solids a try, if you can even call them that since they’re almost as liquid as my milk. Not a week later I’m having my first post partum period (oops, tmi!). Coincidence? I think not! I made it a year and three months, not nearly enough if you ask me.

She is six months now and doing good. She is sleeping better at night, sitting up and rolling over. Hooray for milestones! When I look at her newborn pictures I’m absolutely blown away. To think that six months make such a difference! In another six months I’ll probably quit breastfeeding. How bitter sweet.

Carlita, Daily, Photo

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Concentration

Friday, February 09, 2007

I think my love for this image has a lot to do with her insanely huge cheeks. I often find myself sucking on her cheeks and laughing manically. Needless to say, she isn’t amused.

Carlita, Daily, Photo

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6 Months Old

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Dear Carlita,

Wow. Just, wow. I can’t believe how much can happen in one single month, but then that’s what happens when you have a baby - you learn a lot that you’d never be able to without raising said baby. I’m so lucky that my baby is you.

You are more fun than ever before. You are a happy little person most of the time and getting you to smile is practically no effort. I think that the biggest contributer to your happiness these days is your abillity to sit up unassisted. It seems like that is all you want to do now. If you could you’d probably want to sleep sitting up.

The only cloud on your otherwise perfect sky is your gums and the teeth that keep bursting through them like mushrooms out of the ground. You’re working on #4 as of today when your first top front tooth cut through. I’m still trying to get used to the teeth, and to be honest I will kind of miss your toothless smiles - and by god, so will my nipples. But it’s exciting none the less. Teeth = food = lots and lots of fun! Banana, we’ve found, are you’re absolute favorites so far.

I keep thinking that you’re the most fun ever at this very moment in time, and then you go and up yourself and become even better and sweeter and more adorable each day. I can hardly keep up with you anymore. I treasure our mornings together and I’ve started to try and drag them out as much as possible. If I don’t get that time to just snuggle with you and enjoy your sunny disposition the day just won’t be quite as good as it could be.

There are so many things going on with you at the moment, but it’s hard for me to get it all together and bind it up in a coherent letter. I just don’t want to ever forget how wonderful you are right now so I’d rather write about that than about the milestones that you are hitting like there’s no tomorrow.

Carlita, Letter, Photo

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