She's Just Lovely

I am smitten with my baby. 100%. When I'm not with her she is all I can think about, which is why we have decided that I will cut my work hours back yet again from part-time 5 days/week to just one day.

Mom aka Grandma Brown aka Babu has been babysitting since I went back to work at the end of October, and suffice to say that it ain't been easy. Miss Sakura is quite particular about when she wants to nurse, and if I am not there to perform the task then she makes her displeasure very, very known. NOOOOOO to bottles and other attempts to distract from what she wants. It makes sense that an almost 4 month old would want to be with her mother 24/7. Didn't you?

We celebrated Baby's First 100 Days by dressing her up and taking pictures. Traditionally we would take her to a shrine and have her blessed by a priest, but this will have to wait until we are back in the land of shrines. In the meantime we were able to take adorable pictures of Sakura in her kimono (she will wear the same kimono in her 3rd, 5th and 7th years, as is the custom), although when I say 'in' her kimono, it was actually just draped across her.

She's a bouncing baby and is more the size of a 6-9 month old at almost 4 months. She is growing like a hulk and all of her adorable clothes are getting used far too infrequently (sometimes just once!!) I am rather tired of the sumo comments, as I am of people assuming that my healthy little girl is a little boy!

At any rate, she's just lovely.