I do have pictures, they're just stuck on my camera until I figure out where I put the cord! In the mean time, I thought I would give a bit of an update on things around here since Rebecca is currently asleep!
Rebecca has started pulling herself up from a sitting position to a standing position, provided that she can get her fingers around something stable enough to stay in one spot with her weight on one side of it. She's not making any attempts at moving beyond that, so I think she just likes the new perspective on the world. She isn't even really crawling, unless you want to count getting onto all fours to look around, then flattening out so her head is on the floor and using her toes and fingers to try and move herself whatever direction she wants to go (and getting there!). We were given some money as a baby gift, so we went and got her a number of books. Some were board books, some were paper back or hard cover. We got her The Little Engine that Could, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Guess How Much I Love You, Ten Little Lady Bugs (sort of a touch-and-feel type book), Corduroy, Goodnight Moon, and Pat-the-Bunny. We also invested in a Barnes and Noble membership that day, and with those and a couple of other purchases basically saved the cost of the membership, and since that is an area that we spend a few times each year (on books, etc) we figure it was worth the money!
Rebecca seems to have been traumatized recently when she wasn't given right back to me when she was straining to get to me. Now she often will cry if the wrong person so much as looks at her, let alone talks to, or holds her. She was even ready to cry when Deanna (a very "safe" person in her life) talked to her. She's past it with Deanna, I think, but she doesn't respond so well to people she doesn't know as well anymore, so hopefully she'll get past it sometime soon, but, perhaps we'll just have a "shy" baby for a while.
Justin cut the lawn today (YAY!!!). Our back yard was going to seed since it had been so long since it was cut. Of course, part of the reason it had been so long is because one half of our yard was a marsh for about 10 days because it's been raining so much, so I'd only had the opportunity to cut half of it, and then the weekend before that, Justin didn't have time to cut the lawn. So, now it's done! I do want to find out if there is some sort of tic spray or powder that you can put around your yard, because there are a lot of tics in this area this year, and local doctors mostly refuse to treat Lyme's Disease if you get it (not sure why, but they do, and I think it's foolish of them). So, it's more important than ever to make sure the tics don't stand a chance in our yard... which requires regular cutting of the lawn, and keeping the brush clear. Honestly, I think we are probably in more danger of being sucked dry by mosquitoes, but there's not a whole lot we can do about those!
We are probably having our niece and nephew come and stay with us for a couple of weeks at a time over the summer. We figure since they're both shorter than 4 feet tall, they can sleep on toddler beds, which will mean we can actually fit two beds and a playpen into Rebecca's room, and they'll have proper places to have quiet time, and sleep at night. We think their mom has one toddler bed, so it's really just a matter of finding a second one, and some toddler bedding. Hopefully those will be easy enough to find. I have an ad on freecycle right now, but so far in four or five days, there hasn't really been much of a response, so I don't know if we're going to get them for free or not. We figure if we have to, we can get a fairly nice bed from craigslist, and have it become Rebecca's when she's bigger, and consider at least one of the bedding sets "Rebecca's, on loan", so that would make up for some of the cost, perhaps. We'd just be purchasing a little earlier than we were originally planning.
And, Justin doesn't know this yet (because I forgot to mention it) but we currently have one baby bird in the finch cage. I'm guessing we'll have another three in another three days, since there are three yet to be hatched (newer) eggs in the nest, but we shall see. I'm not really sure if this baby hatched today or yesterday, so perhaps there is already another baby in the nest! We would have had babies about a month ago, except that the parents decided to kill two of the eggs, and then abandoned the rest of them just before they should have hatched. I'm rather relieved that they haven't tossed baby or eggs out as of yet, really, and am hoping that they will raise this one, and any siblings so they get to fledge. I'm not, however, looking forward to the noise that will ensue in another couple of weeks! Those things are loud when they are learning how to sing!
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