Time Flies

I can't believe my daughter is almost 6 months old already. It is amazing how quickly time has flown by. In those first early weeks, I remember cringing when people said she would start to sleep better after a couple of months. A couple of months? Each day and night seemed to last an eternity, especially those long nights of winter. I would dread the darkness, knowing that I would not sleep, and feeling like I was the only person on earth who was awake.

But, the days and nights all melted together and now that I look back they seem to have flown by. V sleeps through the night like a champ now. I only nurse her three times a day and feed her formula/cereal the other three feedings. Now that those late night feedings have gone to the wayside, I realize now how much I miss them. It was our time together, and I loved looking down at her as she scrunched her nose up against me and held my finger with her tiny hand as she ate.

She has been well all winter, thank God. No colds, no sniffles, no runny noses or coughs. I try to maintain a certain sense of normalcy, and not to treat her too much like "the girl in the plastic bubble". Granted, I don't let her roll around with other kids yet, but I take her everywhere: to the grocery store, to the mall, out in the stroller. She LOVES the stroller.

We went to an outdoor St Patrick's Day festival this past weekend. There was green beer and a band for the grownups and jumpy castles and face painting for the kids. When we ran into the couple and their two boys from across the street, the boys both wanted to reach in and touch V's hands. I don't know why all kids seem to want to do that...It must be some sort of weird instinct. Thankfully, their mother (who is a nurse) told them not to touch her as they both had dirty hands. So, they just leaned over her as she sat in the car seat, which was fine, until, to my horror, the younger one proceeded to drool onto her blanket! I'm already learning: No matter how much I try to protect her, she's going to be exposed to this kind of stuff. They just don't make enough Purell to protect her from it all.