Dianthe’s Blog

but i think we are finally on a schedule!!  WOO HOO!!!  all of those moms who said “don’t worry – she’ll get there” were right!  and thank God for that!  when i was pregnant, i (like many other soon-to-be-moms) had everything planned out – we were gonna get on a strict schedule, she’d be sleeping in her crib at 2 months (3 months TOPS!) and i would be able to schedule all of the things that i had on my life before – and then the baby got here and reality set in!   there are certain areas of my life where i am extremely structured and organized – i’ve even been called obsessive – but when it comes to Sydney’s schedule, i’ve pretty much been playing it by ear – or rather her ear – that’s right – from jump, she was pretty much running it and i was running around in it – actually, she wasn’t really that difficult to predict – for the most part, she was keeping the same schedule that she did when she was in my belly – but while i could always sleep when she was moving and grooving on the inside, it doesn’t quite work that way when they’re out – especially now that she’s mobile (which i’ll get to later) – at any rate, Sydney is very much the cat-napper and every once in while she’ll take a long nap – but far be it for her to be predictable – i’m pretty sure her goal in life is to keep me guessign from one minute to the next – and if that’s the case, she is succeeding!  once i get her down, she might sleep for an hour or she might sleep for 20 minutes – she might wake up screaming, she might wake up feeling all Chatty Cathy – she might want to snuggle with me, she might want to walk around the house – there’s no rhyme or reason – but thanks to Vicky aka The Nanny Sent From Heaven, we’re finally making some headway … she’s got a short morning nap, a long (or longer than 30 minutes!) nap around lunchtime, a quick cat nap late afternoon and in bed and asleep by 10pm!!!  i know for most babies, 10pm is way late – but i have been assured my medical professionals that Sydney’s schedule is fine and she’s not going to be a holy terror when she’s 5 because she didn’t go to bed at 7:30pm as a baby – besides, she usually sleeps til about 8:30am, so i think we’re doing pretty well!

you know how your mom always said, “i hope you get a child just like you so you’ll know exactly what i went through”?  well, it happened – i don’t know how moms are able to pass on this curse i mean blessing from generation to generation – i’m guessing that it’s some secret society thing that you get access to the minute you become a mom – whatever it is, you can believe that i’m finding solace in the fact that one day, Sydney will also have a child who is EXACTLY like her – don’t get me wrong, i love her to pieces – but she is so much like me, it is frightening!!  i have often been told that you can tell exactly what i’m thinking just by looking at me – i’ve never been real big on cheesing and grinning – pretty much what you see is what you get – i’m not really into polite laughter and i don’t do a whole lot of BSing to make people feel good – i know, it’s probably not one of my best character traits, but it’s who i am – so is it any surprise that i have a kid who looks at me like this all.the.time.

now one might say that she’s really pissed about being forced to wear the biggest, most obnoxiously huge bow (but SO FREAKING CUTE!!!) ever known to man – and if it was someone else’s kid, i might agree – but that’s just the way she looks at you – she’s not mad, she’s not annoyed, she just is – she’s pretty serious that way, but you can also tell when she’s up to something …

i can’t tell you how many pictures i took trying to get her to sit on that dang step so i could get a picture of her in the Christmas dress that Grandma bought her – ornery kid – she would sit on the step every time and then the second i moved back to take the picture, she’d make a run for it!  ornery i tell ya’ – NO idea where she gets that from!  and speaking of ornery – when is this child going to walk?  um, never – why?  because she doesn’t want to – doesn’t have to – there’s no reason for her to – oh, i have no doubt that she’ll walk eventually – but you can be sure that it won’t be until she is absolutely ready!  so the back story is that right around the 6-7 monthe mark, Sydney had a milestone explosion – within the span of a couple of days she was on all fours, pulling herself up, cruising and walking through the house while holding on to my hands -  the pedi was sure she’d be walking by 9 months and said that she might even bypass crawling altogether – i was not at all sure how i felt about any of this – first of all, my baby was growing up MUCH too fast – not to mention that i would be losing the ability to sit her down somewhere and expect that she would stay there!  then i read that there is a direct correlation in the IQ of children and crawling – like i’m not obsessive enough, right?  then 2 days before her 7 month birthday and hours after a routine visit to the chiropractor, Sydney came home and took off crawling across the hallway – YAY!!  and she mastered that fairly quickly, it wasn’t long before she could crawl like lightening – of course being the overachiever that she is, she had already destroyed the walker i bought her – it’s one of those stationary ones where the walker part rotates around the play area – yeah, it took about a week before she could whip around that thing so quickly that the entire unit would move – so walking wouldn’t be far behind, right?  fast forward 4 months – she’s been walking just holding one hand for 2 weeks now, she can stand by herself for at least 5 seconds, not only could she walk if she wanted to, she could probably break into a full on sprint down the hall – but if you hold your hands out and say “come here Sydney – come to Mommy”, she is guaranteed to drop to her knees in slow motion and look at you like this …

(check out glam r Baby for the SUPA’ cute bow!)

did i mention this kid is ornery?