twotothree

Babies learn so quickly!  I can't believe how much Gloria has changed in the past four months.

She can now hold things.

She interacts with objects around her, which makes reading books together a lot more fun.

Each month I say, "This month is my favorite so far!" and the same has been true of month four.  I suppose I will continue to say that.  Until the teens, anyway.

She has also learned to roll over from back to front.  This shocked me, as everything I've read says that babies don't start doing this until five or six months.  She started rolling front to back at around three months, but I didn't think much of it because it seemed to be more of an imbalance of her giant head than an action with intent behind it.  But now that she's also started rolling back-to-front early, I'm pretty convinced that she's a genius baby.  I had suspicions, due to her giant baby skull (thus housing giant genius baby brains), but now there's more proof.  I'm already starting a fund for Harvard.

"Hi, I'm Gloria, and I'm developmentally AWESOME."

The drawback to this new talent is that she does it in her sleep and wakes herself up every two hours.  This makes for a very tired and cranky mom.  I've been cranky all week.

Part of the cranky week has to be properly attributed to my diet, though.  Parenthood changes your mentality on eating in that you want to eat healthier and take better care of yourself for your child, but unfortunately it also prevents you from doing so.  There's no time to make healthy  meals.  This morning I walked into work eating apple crisp for breakfast because that's the first thing I found in the fridge.  I also found a two-liter bottle of Sprite in the break room and I used that to wash down my dessert breakfast, all the while wondering why I feel like such crap lately.

This week I did an experiment on what I look like talking to Gloria in public.  These are the two BEST images.  If any of you single mothers are wondering why moms don't get dates, it's not because men are afraid of children.  It's because this is what you look like in the grocery store.