La Dudarina

La Dudarina has been at turns challenging and at turns the funnest person on earth. The night weaning is slowly getting better, so that around 3/3:30am she does ask to nurse, but after I tell her no she settles pretty quickly. Sometimes I ask if she would like me to hold her hand while she cries and she says yes. Then she cries for a minute or so and goes back to sleep. At 6am I do nurse her when she asks and then we start the day. This is FAR better than what we had before, which was asking several times a night and then waiting it out around 3am until I gave up (usually 5:30-6am). We just had me spend several more nights in the other bed and have also largely cut out a nursing before bed (she often still nurses once in the evening, but before reading books and lying down).

As for being the funnest, well, those of you who have had a kid at this age know what I'm talking about. She is starting to do more creative/imaginative play so we've been cooking a lot. She also likes to play games with her dolls and stuffed animals where she has them act out things she is trying to figure out, like walking, forward rolls, and hitting her head on the bed's headboard (she does this sometimes at night when being dramatic and flinging herself off the pillow). It is so cool to see her mind work.

So, since it's been a while since I've posted pics of the Spunky Monkey, I've uploaded a bunch of recent ones, including her Halloween outfit (even though she only went next door for one piece of candy). Knock yourselves out.