GULP

It's amazing to watch the changes in Courtney occur before my very eyes. Not 2 weeks ago, she was a roller. She could roll all around and push herself up on her arms and have a little mobility but she basically wasn't going anywhere. She has mastered the art of the 360 turn. If you have a spot on your floor that you just can't get out, lay her down and watch her turn, turn, turn. Next thing you know, you have a VERY shiny floor and I have a very dirty baby.

Then last week (Thursday, June 4th to be exact), I turned on the baby monitor and there she was, just sitting up. It was like she'd been doing it all her life. (She then fell over and hit her head and cried but still - SITTING up.) I thought she'd used the bumpers in her crib to pull herself up but now I'm thinking that's not the case. As if sitting up wasn't a major milestone last week, she has also started to "wave." If you wave at her (by folding your fingers in and out), she will kind of wave back. Although, her hand is facing in so she's basically waving to herself but STILL! Waving!!

But now there are motions, steps, movements that all lead to crawling. YES. CRAWLING. She gets up on her hands and knees and she thinks. She thinks really hard. And then she lays down in exhaustion. Then she'll do it again. And then she lays down and scoots backwards around the room. I find if I put her down and leave the room, when I return she isn't necessarily where I left her. All of this movement is going to make my life exponentially harder. What do you do when you need to go to the restroom? Or how will I get the laundry folded if I have to chase her around the house?

Add to all this movement and waving the looming introduction of teeth. I do believe my little baby girl is getting some choppers. She's been waking in the middle of the night (she never does that), she's drooling gallons of saliva a day (as opposed to the liters she was drooling before), and she's very irritable (she's never like that). Every time I try to take a look in her mouth or stick my finger in there, she jerks her head away and screams. And lets just say there's some biting going on and it's not all that comfy.

I can't believe my itty bitty baby girl has SO much going on in her ever evolving life. Before I know it she's going to be walking and then what will we do???