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May 31, 2006
3 day weekend
I have never been so gladly looking forward to a 3 day weekend as I have this Memorial Day. not because of anything that we had planned, but I just want 3 days not to deal with or think about work. It ended up being a very relaxing weekend to spend with the family. Naomi also chose this weekend to show how fast kids can develop. As you probably know she's been taking a few steps here and there, but Jenn and I didn't really consider it walking. We caught a lot of flak for that, but we thought that walking meant you could actually make it from Point A to Point B fairly smoothly. Whereas what Naomi has been doing has been a little bit of tottering around, no more than 10 steps before she plops down and uses her time-honored method of crawling (and boy, is she fast doing that). This weekend actually marked a shift where she wants to walk more than she wants to crawl now. She even broke into the most adorable little run (more like a scurry) from time to time, usually chasing after us. But I can no longer say that she's *not* truly walking after this weekend. She walks around, when she falls down, instead of crawling the rest of the way, she stops to push herself up to a standing position and resumes walking.
Her separation anxiety has eased a bit too. She wants to be carried a lot, but she is much more comfortable around other people. She actually goes to my mother now, something that she never did before, but now she will actually reach out to her to get carried. It helps to give us a little break now and then whenever we spend time with my parents. I guess its good that she doesn't feel that way anymore, but Jenn and I both confess to feeling strange pangs of regret, in the sense that right now, she absolutely needs us and wants us to be around. And once she loses that separation anxiety and gets older and older, she will be that way less and less. If she ends up taking after me, she will be a very independent person. So we are trying to cherish the times she scrambles to grab our legs if she thinks we are leaving her, or when she pulls herself up, makes her way to the front of our legs, and then looks up in that plaintive request: "Carry me!"
Posted by spoof747 at May 31, 2006 03:27 PM