Exciting Times

I said I would use this blog to keep you all informed of baby milestones. Well we are hitting two of them! The first happened yesterday. Lily rolled over from her back to her tummy all by herself at three months! Ella didn't do that until she was almost five months old. We were playing on the floor and she was trying to do it so I gave her a little help. Then I put her back on her back and went into the kitchen to help Ella get some juice. When I came back out, Lily was on her tummy! She did it again today all by herself. I can't believe how much more advanced she is than Ella was at this age!

And the second milestone involves Ella. We are retiring her nuks this weekend. We have decided to do it cold turkey. She was really good for a long time about only needing it at nap time and bedtime, but for the last month or so, she is demanding it pretty much all the time. We don't give in, but I am sick of her asking for it all the time, and I don't really think she needs it anymore. She also has gotten very mischievous about it. She will go and grab her pjs out of the drawer and give them to me to put on her. To her, this indicates its bedtime and therefore will receive her nuk, even though its only 6pm at night. She will also go to the cupboard and ask for it at like 10am in the morning and go lay in her bed for like ten minutes because to her this is taking a "nap". Then she will get up and play with it in her mouth for as long as I will let her have it. So, tomorrow morning after she wakes up, she will join us at the garbage can where she can see that we are throwing them away. We have told her for the past two days that we will be getting rid of the nuks and that she is a big girl now and big girls don't need their nuks anymore. It makes me sad to be getting rid of it, because this means she really is getting older and not a baby anymore. But it's time. I know she will be upset. But I have faith she will get over it (hopefully quickly) and become attached to something else. She's already getting attached to her new Nemo blanket I got her so I think that may become her new security object.

So wish us luck as we become the "mean, tough love" parents this weekend! I'll let you know how it goes on Monday! Feel free to weigh in with your comments about how mean we are. ;-) I just hope we don't traumatize her forever.