hi ho hi ho...back to work I go

I've been slacking at posting an update so this will be a long one.  Tomorrow I go back to work and I probably won't have time to post an update for awhile again.  I get back just in time for the last four weeks of tax season...should have planned that better :/ Mitch starts his 4 weeks of paternity leave.  After that, Mitch's mom will watch Willa until the end of August.  We will try to get her in to daycare at that point.  We would love to get her in with someone with just a few kids.  She is still at risk of being sick even as she gets bigger and stronger.  And if she does get sick she will likely get it worse than another child who was born full term. 

Well, lets see what has been going on lately.  Since the weather has been so nice lately, we have been taking daily walks.  Willa does pretty good and usually falls asleep on our walks.  i have been very pleasantly surprised at how well our dog walks with us.  When I would run with her she would pull me all over the place.  I think she is scared of the stroller so she just hangs pretty close to me when we walk. 

Willa has found her thumb and I'm starting to wonder if she is going to be left handed.  She seems to prefer her left thumb and uses her left hand more often when playing with her toys. 

She is definitely a morning person.  She loves to get up and play on her play mat and talk to her toys.  She has a little caterpillar that she hits to get it to sing music and a lady bug that hangs over her head.  She will just laugh and coo at the two of those things for quite awhile in the mornings.

She hasn't rolled over yet and isn't much of a fan of tummy time.  She is can hold her head up by herself most of the time and will roll on to her side now.

We started using our cloth diapers last week and that has been going well.  We only have about 12 and that will get us through a day and a half or 2 days at most.  We still have to use disposables some but at $0.20 a diaper or more I think it will be worth it to use the cloth diapers as much as we can.  The cloth diapers are so easy.  That may change once she is off breast milk, but for now all I have to do is stick them in the washing machine and it gets them perfectly clean.

The last time we had her weighed was a couple weeks ago and she was 8 lbs 11 oz.  So I am assuming she is over 9 lbs now.  She goes back to get her last RSV shot this week and to get her eyes checked again.  After this last RSV shot, I think we will be more comfortable taking her places such as church and running errands.  Up until now she has just been to the Dr and to see Grandmas and Grandpas.

I haven't been good at taking pictures other than her monthly pictures so I don't have many new ones to share.  Here is one of Willa and one of our neighbors.  They were born only a few days apart and will be classmates someday.

I missed posting for her 5 month picture on March 4th so here it is -

And to show you she already has an attitude -

I've wanted to do a collage for awhile to see how far Willa has come.  I wish I would have better pictures from the beginning, but didn't think about that at the time.