A real person

Over the past couple of weeks I have been amazed at how much more of a little person Lily is becoming. She is showing signs of a distinct personality, is starting to understand some social cues, and is moving and growing super fast. 

Lily definitely has her own quirky personality with specific likes and dislikes. The other day she was super crabby. I had The View on in the background while I was walking around the apartment trying to find something to distract her. Then Ludacris and Quincy Jones performed an acapella version of Soul Bossa Nostra (the theme song from Austin Powers). It was a pretty sweet cover, and Lily just fell in love with it. The only thing that would stop her from crying was listening to that song while I danced with her in front of the dining room window overlooking the parking lot and playing with the wind chime that hangs there. So I quickly found it on YouTube and put it on repeat. Absolutely bizarre. If any single one of those factors changed, shrieking immediately resumed. 

I'm also constantly impressed by her seeming understanding of social situations. She'll be having a crabby day, then a crabby car ride to yoga, but as soon as we get there around other people she quiets down and is willing to hang out. Also when we visit people she is a little unsure, but she is extremely "well-behaved" for a good long time. (I have a little bit of an issue with that term, but people keep using it. It's not like a baby can have 'bad' behavior.) We spend a little time each day playing in front of a mirror and I always ask her if she can make that baby smile. Just recently she has started smiling at the mirror, but then she gets all shy and buries her face in my should. Then she sort of peeks out and smiles again, and gets all shy again. She's such a little flirt. 

Lily is also growing and moving more every day. Each night when we put her down in bed she looks a little bit bigger and takes up more room. And even since last week she looks significantly bigger in her highchair. 

And finally, she has been rolling over! Over the past couple of weeks she's been doing it about once a day, but in a stealthy way. I'll be playing with her on the floor, look down at my watch, look back and she's flipped over. It's almost as if she waits until you look away to do it. On Tuesday, though, I finally caught her in the act. I was trying to take a picture of her in an adorable new onesie from Hanna, and she rolled over in slow motion. Here she is mid-roll. 

I also think she might be starting to teeth. She's drooling a ton, chewing on anything she can get in her mouth, and has been a little more irritable. Even so, it's definitely becoming a lot more fun to hang out and interact with her all day. There's much less of just sitting, more talking and playing, lots of laughing, squealing, and smiling. Maybe I can do this mom-thing after all.