I was finally motivated enough to come back and post, because I want to remember for kid #2 when we weaned, which has FINALLY happened!! I have been ready for months, but riley never reached that point. She did finally reach the point of tolerating it, though, so it is done. It has been more than a week since the last time we nursed. She still asks for it about every other day, and now is attached to my leg every second we are together, and it has led to some sleep issues (mostly from her constant need for me to be near her, leading to me sometimes even sleeping in her room just so she'll go back to bed), but I think she will be okay. I wish I could have waited for her to self-wean, but I was just so done... toward the end I did not like nursing anymore. at all. I loved it when she was a baby, and am happy that I remember that despite how much I did not love it toward the end :) So I know that I will nurse again someday, which is a possibility now that I have actually gotten my period back...
In other updates, I graduated from school, and now have my ph.d... only a year late :) And we moved to Philadelphia. So I was busy and have an excuse for not keeping track of stuff the past 6 months! Maybe now that things have calmed down I will be able to start posting again. I feel bad that I haven't posted much about riley starting to talk, and all of the other grown-up things she does now. She is SO much better at communicating, but still gets frustrated because we don't understand most of what she says. She has become a great eater and finally drinks milk (since weaning, I guess!). She loves to sing and dance, and actually knows about half of the words to a few songs (twinkle twinkle, Elmo's song- which is mostly la-la-la-la haha). She is starting to interact with other toddlers, which is very fun. She seems to understand a lot now, and you can tell she is thinking a lot when she does things. She seems to experiment a lot, and likes to figure out cause/effect relationships. She loves playing with water and pouring, soaking/squeezing sponges, etc and will spend an hour in the bathtub if we let her. She is surprisingly good with crayons and markers and seems to be trying to do more than just scribble. She loves the playground and can go down the slides by herself, which is scary for me! If there is a railing to hold, she can walk up stairs instead of climbing. She can follow pretty complex, multi-step requests. She still loves books (and has some memorized) and now likes puzzles too. I'm sure there is so much more that I am not thinking of, because she doesn't even seem like a baby at all- she is like a little girl now.
I don't even have recent pictures on my computer to post! I'll do it again soon, in case anyone still checks this :)
