Bethany’s favorite game right now is to throw a toy away from her and get someone to hand it back, over and over again. Luckily for her, her sisters tend to find this exercise almost as entertaining as she does, and are usually more than willing to volunteer as retrievers. She also likes hand us toys and wait for us to hand them back to her, like a passing game. Since she’s started cruising around the house, there’s no shortage of things she’ll find on the floor to “pass” to us.
Like the other girls, I don’t really have set nap times for Bethany, preferring to put her down whenever she seems to be getting tired. At this point I know that’s going to be once in the morning and once in the afternoon, usually around 10am and 2pm, but it varies (especially when she’s teething). She is the first of the girls who actually goes to sleep better if I lay her down while still awake – at least during the day. If I try to nurse her to sleep like I did with her sisters, she gets distracted and won’t go down. At night it’s a different story, though. The house is quiet, her sisters are asleep, and she wants all the one-on-one mommy time she can get.
Bethany has four teeth now, two up top and two on the bottom. She also has stubborn lower molars that are half emerged but seem in no hurry to finish arriving. With so few teeth, Bethany still eats mostly soft baby food. She’s interested in grabbing or playing with “big people” food, but rarely does more than suck on it. Chewing still appears to be a foreign concept, except with teethers.
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