So last week, Emilee started eating much faster durring the day, but since it seemed like a sudden change, I was thinking she was just being squirmy and needed to eat more, so I tried to hold her on. Of course she screamed at me. lol. If ever you want an exercise in futility, try feeding a baby when they aren't hungry! It was very VERY frustrating and was deffinately a chance to practice patience....a lesson I failed miserably at at times! I guess it's a good thing God is giving me opportunities to learn it now, when she won't remember, rather than later. I'm a whole lot less likely to damage her psyche now if I loose my cool than later, though I guess I'm destined to mess her up at least a little bit along the way. :-p Haha, of course I jest, though the sad reality is, no one is immune from it...we all have character flaws and "issues" as a result of our upbringings. The goal is to try and make sure they aren't insurmountable. Hating peas because your mother "made" you eat them is pretty insignificant compared to being a people pleaser and perfectionist because your family was always critical and nothing was good enough for them. You catch my drift? I think it's also a good thing God made babies so cute, lol. It's really hard to be very angry, or angry for very long, when they are giggling at you. LOL. No need to worry, loosing my cool mostly just entails speaking sternly and loudly, but I still feel awful about it when I do, because she's just an innocent little baby. She doesn't know deception or will power yet...she just eats when she's hungry, cries when she's unhappy or uncomfortable, laughs and plays and "talks" when she's contented, and sleeps when she's tired. A baby's life is pretty uncomplicated! It's amazing how God uses the relationships in our lives to show us things about ourselves, life, and him, and to teach us things. I am humbled by my lack of patience, it's not something I would have expected from myself!, and I'm trying to conciously NOT react that way. life should be malleable; we should always be improving on ourselves. :) Here is a picture of my little irrisitible munchkin with the monkey toy her father found for her at Goodwill.
I would not have chosen it for her, but she lit up the moment he gave it to her and laughs and giggles every time we've given it to her since! She loves the darn thing. :-p
Anyway, in other news, I've been experimenting with my curly-ing hair. That's right, it truly is getting more curly since I've been pregnant with Emilee! My hair is so heavy it looses a lot of it's curl once it dries, so I put some gel in it on sunday. It kind of worked, but I didn't get a picture of it. This picture is from saturday when I let it air dry. You can kind of see the curlyness at the bottom.
I'm pretty excited about this change...I mean, I always liked my hair, but it's still kinda neat that I get to play with curly hair now. I also found out on sunday that I'm not the only one this has happened to! Not that I thought I was, but personally knowing someone else does make me feel a little less afraid it was caused by something serious like lukemia! My imagination is pretty wild and in my personal experience, the only time I knew someone's hair to change was after they had chemo for lukemia! But, one of the women at church told me her hair got curly after pregnancy too, so I feel much more comfortable about it. :) Anway, we've got the pastor coming over this afternoon to talk with us about a baby dedication, so I should wrap this up. Happy tuesday everyone!
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