Today was a wonderful day! You woke me up early, around 7:30 a.m. with your delicious morning chatter and I pulled you into bed and put you on my breast. You were hungry after sleeping almost 10 hours! We drifted in and out on little waves of sleep... Your kicking eventually got us out of bed around 9:30. I made tea and we had breakfast. You had apple, banana and mango puree, I had soft-boiled eggs. Then I put you in your chair to watch Dora & Diego, your favourite cartoons.
Today you began to hold the bottle and feed yourself! Smiling, giggling, playing, biting, sucking, drinking. Muy bien mi niña! Lazy morning just us two while papi slept. Playing on the island and playing in your box with a thousand cuddly toys. Afternoon yoga class for mami and you stayed with papi for a couple of hours. You played piano, you love to listen and watch your papi move his fingers across the keys. And he held you while you stomped happily with your feet and hands too! You are like a little tiger cub, clawing and scratching at everything... eyes, noses, mouths and cheeks. Pinching skin hard and pulling hair too! Ouch! We're teaching you to be more gentle, Bonita.
After a yummy dinner of papi's famous lasagna we had play time again. Then baby massage, which you love! But they have to be quick now because after a few minutes you want to turn on your belly and start crawling around the towel! (You learned to crawl on your abuela's bed in Mazatlán. She had this crochetted bed spread that let you pull yourself along from one end of the bed to the other...) You are so active now! Rolling on to your belly, lifting your bottom, lifting your head... Oh and you giggle so sweetly, it's the most gorgeous sound!
Bath time was next. Which you Love with capital L. Splish splashing about. Kicking your legs and chasing rubber duckies around the tub. We sing songs in the water too! You walk and swim around so interested in all the little details, grabbing at anything within reach, shampoo, sponge, shower hose, nipple... Ouch!
But the best moment of the day was bedtime. I put you down after our story and lie down together. You were awake for a while, chatting with your toys. After a while you started to protest being alone in the room. When your cries got more emotional we went to you, mama y papa and we layed down together in the bed with you in the middle. You took my finger in one hand and searched for your papi with the other. Then you turned your head back back and forth a couple of times, closed your eyes and drifted to sleep. I felt all warm and fuzzy, enjoying the beautiful moment when you completely surrendered to sleep in our loving gazes. When I moved you into your crib a few minutes later you didn't even flinch, bella durmiente...
Sleeping like a baby. This is what they mean when they say that... I love watching you sleep! Sleeping like you sleep... with your arms up, with that gorgeous sleeping face of yours. Now, as you sleep, I feel my heart is connected to yours through the walls and furniture by blue cables of love... they reach backwards and forwards in time, binding us forever, oh sweet child of mine...
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