Marion Makes…

I haven’t kept up and now there’s too much to recall. This is why we don’t sleep on the blog posts.

I haven’t felt super well the last couple of days, but they’ve also been fairly calm, low maintenance days. Erica did go to the doctor on Wednesday, which I mentioned here already I think… But yeh all is well in that regard. She’s still developing on target.

She has been signing for potty this week, finally. I had to laugh at the pediatrician’s office, cuz her doc said I could start introducing the concept of the potty now, let her watch me and stuff… Lol. She’s been using her potty since like seven months. I’m really proud of myself for that one, not gonna lie. She will both pee and poo, and she has “scheduled” bathroom breaks that she can anticipate before and after every nap and any time we change her diaper, and I’m fairly certain she has held her pee until then many times.

So signing for the toilet when she needs it is really the last piece of the puzzle for now. Once she walks we’ll start teaching her to use pullups so she can take herself to the potty too. I’m proud of her doin the human thing.

A couple days ago she looked me dead in the face and waved and said “hi mama” clear as day, and meant it. She now officially gives real hugs, head on shoulder and arms around neck. And she is more and more often being very gentle with the animals, and puts her head on them to cuddle them now too.

She also went five days without breastfeeding, and probably could’ve been completely weaned, but I was weak last night. She woke up hungry so I went into her nursery to give her a puree pouch like I’ve been doing since we started weaning… Except I had taken off my shirt cuz it was hot so my boobs were out, and the poor child looked so happy about it 😭 I still fed her the pouch first but she wanted to nurse so bad after and I felt like it’d be a jerk move to not after she’d seen my boobs for the first time in ages. And I also just really like nursing and my boobs were full and hurting from not nursing for so long so suddenly. So a weak moment. It was sweet though. The way she gets so heavy lidded and calm, the magical feeling of providing nourishment for your child from your own body, it’s different from anything else. I’ll miss it. But! Her officially being a hugger has led her to seek more cuddles, so I think that helps us both adjust to not having the closeness of nursing. So that’s very nice.

Today I have been pretty nauseous so Nate has had to pick up some of my parental slack so I could rest, which he of course has done without complaint. I’m so glad to have him.

…ok that’s it for this one lol