Sofia, Five Months

I guess my blogging of Sofia's milestones is going to be as erratic as life itself.

Our little Prakasnitza (Russian for rascal) and Julik (bandit, lawbreaker) has been mobile for as long as I can remember. And last week, at five and a half months, while at a family reunion in Colorado (posts to come) she started crawling. What is fascinating about her is that she never seems to doubt herself. I want it, I'm going to get it. Even at five months, if you put something interesting halfway across the room, she steadily worked her way towards it (with several breaks to play with her feet or to flash a smile at her audience.)

I thought I felt a tooth coming through three months ago, but it only emerged last Friday. It's the bottom right as I expected to I must have felt something. She is fine during the day, but not sleeping well at night. It's some combo of crawling, teething, the chaos of summer, the time change from Colorado, and becoming more resolute in her preference to sleep next to mommy.

She is a chunky, slobbering, sweet as pie joy and there is nothing I did to deserve this. Just a blessing dropped from the sky.