There has been quite a bit of excitement in my personal life keeping me away from this blog. I haven't forgotten this blog but right now I don't have the focus to get a decent post out. I'm thinking about it but it may take awhile.
Ivy is doing fine. We'll have a pedi visit this week which is great because she's been on a bit of a food strike. Since she stopped nursing over the weekend she's been on a steady decline of what she'll eat at each meal. Down, down, down.
We haven't started solids yet and it just may be that she's bored. It seems like it's probably a bunch of things; teething, wanting to nurse more, boredom with bottles, more awareness and interest in flexing her own will, interest in eating real food [she cried the other day when Mitchell was eating while feeding her! He stopped and she stopped! He started again, trying to keep it from her and she totally called him on it!] and determination not to move up to the next faster flow of bottle nipple. I'm not sure why but Ivy doesn't want to do it. On the rare occasion she does, she eats her entire bottle without issue. But right now she doesn't want to and we aren't going to make her.
We're also still working on sitting. Ivy is completely capable but also flexing her freedom of choice here. She'll take her little head right to her ankles rather than hold herself up. I try engaging her mind, but it's her will that has the upper hand.
But we'll get there. Hopefully with the rolling too. Still only front to back, no back to front. But I found her sleeping on her side earlier this week! Her side!!! It's so exciting!
