It's fall! It really really is. You can tell by looking at that get-up. Ah, to be a baby again and be perfectly fashionable to wear green booties over pink tights and a dress with orange hearts plus a denim jacket and a bright pink hoodie.
Big time development this week is we've gotten Maggie to skip her mid-nighttime feeding. Instead of getting up at 3ish to nurse her briefly and then struggle to fall asleep again (me, not her -- she always went to bed just fine afterwards), she now sleeps without complaint until about 5ish. Now the trick will be getting her to extend that morning wake-up time to (hopefully, wishfully, optimistically) 7. Just like I shaved a minute off of that breastfeeding until it was eliminated, we'll tack on a few minutes before getting her out of her crib in the morning. She's a smart cookie; I'm sure she'll get the picture eventually. Boy does it feel good to get into bed knowing we won't have to get out again until morning.
Everything else is pretty stable. She has weathered her second cold valiantly. She's gotten comfortable pulling herself up to standing while wearing socks; a good thing since it's cool weather now. She loves lying in her bath but mostly refuses to stay on her back for an entire diaper change. She's starting to pick up signs with a vengeance -- "more" is her favorite since it normally results in good food in her mouth. Her favorite naughty behaviors are still to go for the dog dishes in the kitchen and to pinch me vigorously during breastfeeding. And she laughs out loud for no reason.
