When I was thinking about weaning….
-I ended up nursing until 08/08
1. Tell us about a favorite thing she does while nursing:
I love when she gently touches my face with her silky palms, her hands are like little starfish… I love when she snuggles closer and tucks her (always cold) feet against my belly. I love when she twirls my hair. I love how she HAS to thrust her leg under my shirt and through the neck, so I have a foot dangling in my face while I am trying to read a book… She will waggle it back and forth, sometimes patting my face with her little toes…
I love when she hums contented little noises and sighs… And now she has started a screechy-squeak… Its very cute.
That being said, I used to hate how, for almost a year, she stuck her hand in my mouth and hung onto my bottom lip, gouging the inside of my mouth with her nails. Now she loves to scritch-scratch the flesh between my breasts, so that my skin now resembles the side of a cat-clawed couch! James thinks its funny, but its hard to feel sexy when you have what resembles a nasty rash up the sides of your breasts!
2. Do you have plans for when she will wean?
I was planning on letting her decide that, but we’ve been having some bad nights lately. She wants to nurse nurse nurse all night long, and will NOT fall asleep.
She twists and kicks and climbs over my body (mouth never leaving nipple) she turns upside down, right side up, sideways, (mouth never leaving nipple) all the while scritch-scratching, scritch-scratching at the tender spot between my breasts with her itty bitty baby claws. And I’m starting to reach the end of my warm and lovely mummy feelings…
3. What is her favorite activity?
Other than nursing, Willow adores dancing. Especially naked. Talk about your pagan baby. She is constantly coming up and tugging on my pantleg… “Dee-dee?” She asks, her big blue baby doll eyes latched onto the tv or stereo or computer… “Dee-dee?” a plaintive cry as she dances in place, giving us her best Flashdance number…
Her other hobbies include brushing the dog with MY hairbrush, stealing “keem” from the fridge, holding siege on Luna the cat while she hides under the coffee table, and finding things to drop into the toilet.
4. What, if any, other names did you consider when naming her? (I love her name!!)
Willow was Willow from the day I found out I was having a girl…
Before that point, we had considered Logan and Riley and Callum for a boy, Kali and Isabella and Violet and Iris and Abigail and Sophia and Elena and Morrigan for a girl…
