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Five Months Today

So Neve has hit the 5 month milestone, and quite frankly, I can’t believe  where the time has gone. Yes I know its a cliché and yes I KNOW everyone says it, but it really is true. It feels like a few weeks ago that Neve was a tiny little dot in my arms and now? Well now she is quite substantial to put it politely.  A little on the chubby side, and has so many rolls that I have lost count! My neighbour said to me today “so the weaning is going well then does she enjoy her food?” and then looked shocked when I explained that she is only 5 months and we haven’t started yet!

She is definitely getting bigger every day, and more recently has shown a real desire to sit up, almost doing mini sit ups when we pop her in her bouncer or prop her up on our laps.

She is still waking during the night, some nights more than others, but over the last few days has been a little fractious when feeding, and yesterday I found out why!

I thought she was showing a few signs of teething – so having experienced full on Teething Gate before with Erin, I got out the trusty Anbesol, and applied some to her gums. I did not expect to feel two little sharp white teeth popping through the surface, and certainly not ones on the side! For some reason, unlike most babies who get their top front or bottom teeth first, Neve appears to want to be a little different! Her first two teeth are actually the incisors, the sharp vampire like teeth that most babies get a few months after their front teeth. I don’t know how this is going to pan out, but I have a picture of a slightly possessed vampire baby in my mind.

I hope that they work their way out reasonably quickly and that we don’t have too many tears. In the meantime we are making the most of my wealth of must have teething products!

Erin has been a little challenging this month to say the least. She hadn’t really been through a jealous stage since Neve was born, but I was warned that after a period of calm we may experience an “acting up” phase, and we appear to be slap bang in the middle of that.  Despite getting told she has wonderful listening ears at pre school, it appears that those ears are selective in who they listen to, and for some reason, my voice seems to have been set to the “do not disturb” setting. I find myself asking her to do something over and over again, or repeating myself like a broken record before she listens. At times she purposely does the distinct opposite of what I ask, and I feel as if I could scream when she disobeys me for the twelfth time that day.

But then? Then she goes and does something like this… yes there are a few spacing issues, and yes, the curl on her e was a bit of an afterthought, but hey she is is 3! I am super proud of this, and am so excited that she is entering the stage where she is beginning to understand numbers and letters! 🙂

Overall, we have our hands quite full at the moment! In the words of Dory … just keep swimming?

How are you and yours?