I mentioned before that Isabel has these sort of monkey toes because she can make the big toe and pinky toe move independently from the middle three (those are a set.) But daddy thinks it is even more odd that she grasps your finger, shirt, arm (whatever is in the path of her toes) with just as firm as a grasp as she does with her hands. He says that she could probably pick things up with them ad then I have to remind him that mom can do that and frequently does. Hey! Sometimes it is just easier to pick it up with my toes and bring my leg up to my hands to retrieve the item than bending all the way over. I can't help it.
Another thing about fingers & toes is all the finger & toe lint that gets stuck between each finger & toe and then in the palm of her hands in the creases. Daddy always yells at mommy to stop picking at her (when I pick out her lint while she's nursing.) I gotta keep my baby clean, you know.
She was so happy waking up this morning, even if we were stirred awake by a stupid cat maknig too much noise. She was chatty & smiley and doing all sorts of stretches.
She really didn't seemed to bothered by the 4 shots yesterday. It was amazing how quick the nurse worked to give her all of them. She started out with a high pitch cry with the first poke, but before she could get the entire cry out the nurse was done with all of them. I was really proud of how Isabel handled the shots and am very happy we didn't have a fussy baby in the evening and even more happy she didn't have any bad side effects or reactions. We pretty much came home and did the normal routine for the evening and she had a normal night.
FEED ME!
Ok, by this point in the morning she was frustrated with mom and didn't want her picture taken. What she wanted was to eat and then go to sleep, but mom was trying to stretch playtime out as long as possible so that she wouldn't go down for a nap too early and would still be asleep when Carrie came here to watch her for a bit. Mom wants to slip out while she is sleeping so that she could possibly be more successful and getting her to take a bottle.
The doctor said we are just going to have to find a patient person(s) who will watch her and try to give her the bottle when I am gone during the day. That person is going to have to tolerate her crying and keep offering up the bottle. The doctor says the baby won't starve herself. She'll either eat from the bottle or just learn to wait to eat until mom comes back. She said we'll probably need to do this for a few days to a week, but that the baby will learn to take a bottle (most likely, or learns to just wait for mom - but hopefully not cry forever.) The doctor said we should do this before I go back to work, guess I'll have to figure all that out.
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Todays outfit is all new & mom purchased - and very gender neutral.
She is wearing a Carter's onesie that has cute little ducks all over it and RL bottoms.
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