Lately, Fiona’s naps have been awful, almost nonexistent. It’s not helping that she is also waking multiple times at night. I’m exhausted. I feel like she has regressed to six or eight months old. She is nursing eight times a day again, even though during June and July she reduced nursing to four to six times a day. I think she is eating less. John thinks she is teething. It’s been so long since she actually had teething symptoms that I am not used to this.
At the same time, she is doing a lot of new things. She is standing up unassisted more and more by using an object to stand and then letting go. She is standing up without any help at all in the bath, she is crawling and standing while holding objects (in other words, carrying objects), putting rings on a pole and socks in a box, “walking” using the walking toy, taken a few steps toward me while I hold her hands, she is crawling through a tube. She is pointing and putting blocks into a sorter. She ate pizza and olives for the first time. She drank water from a spoon. I think she may have grown a little taller.
She loves the vacuum:
She is becoming a pickier eater, seeming to love something one day, then refusing it the next. Feeding her is becoming stressful. She eats best when she has a large variety of foods in front of her, but I can’t do that on a daily basis when I am alone.
The last week was a busy one. We has birthday parties (and more to come), had the car detailed, and found a new park to play in that has stairs Fiona can climb. On Wednesday, the County Fair opened and admission was only a dollar. Fiona, my mom, and I decided to go. We wanted to park in downtown and walk to the fair grounds, but the only available parking was pretty far from the fair. After walking a short distance, we decided to stop for lunch and had a delicious meal at Jonathan’s. They used to serve sort of Mediterranean style food, but now it’s more Middle Eastern and yummy! The chef saw that Fiona kept looking toward the kitchen and let us walk through and talked to us a little. We did a little shopping and I found a very cheap pair of used shoes in a style I have been searching for a long time. I am really liking and trying to take advantage of the great new second hand clothing stores that have lately cropped up in downtown.
On Thursday I took Fiona to a Hebrew lesson (for me, not for her), then went to a concert with John. I went to another concert with my mom the next day. We saw Pat Benetar at the fair and she was awesome! She sang all of her old favorite songs. Everyone was singing along and dancing. It was such a fun experience!
Today my parents, John, Fiona, and I went to the fair. We took a shuttle so that we did not have to pay for parking or deal with fair traffic. Fiona enjoyed the bus ride. We ate fair food (heart attack on a paper plate) and saw lots of farm animals, photography, and commercial exhibits. And Fiona rode a pony!
Fiona got to pet some goats and sheep:
My dad and I posed for a silly photo:
Fiona exploring:
I think her face is changing.
She still looks the same when she falls asleep in her stroller:
Cross your fingers for better sleep this week!
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