I'm happy to report that I didn't break the baby. After a few days of trying to get Tessa to nap in her crib (which she'll do; just for 30 minutes at a time), we decided that sleep was more important for her and to go back to the trusty old stroller. Unfortunately, she then spent several days only doing those catnaps in her stroller too. Fortunately, yesterday and the day before have seen a trend going back toward actual napping. So glad I didn't break the baby of napping at not-yet-6-months old.
She's pretty boring to write about because she's so darned easy-going. Things are sweetly going on. We'll try solid food again in the next couple of days and see how her body reacts this time. No teeth to report; I'm trying to be patient about that since there's no changing it. She is making some new sounds: "ba ba ba ba ba ba" or "ya ya ya ya ya ya." Her utterances before were continuous vowels or breathily separated. But just in the last couple of days, she'll say a few "words" with one breath, vowels separated by consonants. Conversations are now much more interesting.
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