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01/10/2008: "Too Clever by Half"

Hi! I'm back! And, in even more exciting news, so is my computer! Yay! Huzzah! Yippee! I am so happy to have it back that I can hardly tell you. So I will tell you about something else as words fail me regarding my joy with the computer.

Dessa is in her crib throwing a fit at the moment. I can't say as I blame her and I feel like sort of a creep right now, but this is one of those Mommy moments where you know you're doing the right thing but brother! It's a bitch to do it.

She's gotten relatively mobile for a kid who can't crawl. She scoots around on her belly (usually backwards) or pushes herself on her back by scrunching up her knees and propelling herself, head first, towards her goal. This morning we put her down for her AM nap and went downstairs. Our routine has gotten pretty predictable these days, napwise. She's gotten very good about going down drowsy, fussing for a few minutes and then drifting off to sleep. Occasionally, when she's very tired, she doesn't make a sound before she's out and then I have to go in after a few minutes and make sure she's OK because I worry like that (silent, adorable sleeping baby within 20 seconds of putting her down? Something must be wrong).

This morning, after a few minutes of quiet, I heard what sounded like the mobile being pushed. She's played with it before so we now shove it out of the way during sleep time. I asked Dave to check on her and when he did I heard him laughing so I went up to see.

The kid had been put in her crib on the lower half of the mattress. Now she'd scooted up to the other end of the crib and was playing with the buttons that turn on the mobile. Within a minute, she'd pushed the right button to turn it on.

We laughed, we marvelled, we took the requisite photo

and then... we took it all away from her.

We've been saying for weeks that we need to take the mobile down. Dessa is over 7 months old now and pretty soon she's gonna use the darn thing to pull herself up, which we can't have. We've already lowered the crib mattress because she was grabbing the mobile and trying to pull it to her mouth, so the next step had to be removing the spinning part of the mobile itself. The music box part is seperate and can stay attached to the crib for a while because it's secure. She likes the music and it's familiar so we kept that part.

But she was pissed.

All smiles and jolly while we moved the crib, took the thing apart and reattached the music box, Dessa's face crumpled into the agony only an infant's can when she looked up and realized her beloved Suessian mobile was gone. Then the screaming started. And kept up.

It took her a good 15 minutes to calm down, but she's sleeping now. I don't know if she'll remember the mobile when she wakes up.

God, I hope not.

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on Friday, January 11th, Jeannie said

Yay!!! Finally some Dessa updates!!!! Huzzah!!!! And awwww what a cutie!!!!!!