The Oona Blog

Oh thank God for this milestone! After months of struggling with wiggling and crying and closed fists and pulling fingers, today Oona finally let me cut her nails!

We were reading a story and I looked at her, paused, and I asked her if I could cut her nails. She looked at me with a little expectant smile, so I thought “hmm, maybe this will work” and went to get the clippers. And suddenly upon taking her hand in mine, her first little index finger popped out! I cheered and clapped after each finger and she seemed very pleased with herself.

Sorry for being down and out for so long, but I’ve finally fixed the broken blog. I’ll do my best to fill in some of the gaps since the last post two months ago.

In a nutshell, she’s gone from a sweet baby to full on, intense toddler!

Walking. Talking. Screaming. Pointing. Climbing.

And cutest of all, scowling!!!

Oona’s in a big kissing phase these days. She kissed all her cousins over Thanksgiving, even ones she just met. Yesterday she was crawling up to the mirror and looking at herself, and then leaned in to kiss the mirror! And today she ripped up a magazine and looked at one page with a model on it, and touched the model’s cheek, then kissed it! She’s just the sweetest little girl!

Oona’s babysitter, Juliana is here today while I do some work. Oona loves her, she’s so sweet, and she loves Oona! They played in the morning, and then Oo went down for a nap. When she woke up, Juliana got her and was walking her around.  She looked so sleepy and cute, so I took her for a minute for a cuddle, but when I gave her back, Oona looked at me and her lower lip pushed out in a big ol’ frown, and then she started crying, reaching out for me. Intellectually I know that attachment is a developmental milestone, but it’s SO hard to see it in action. It was all I could do not to take her back again.

Poor little sick thing, tonight Oona had her first fever… A bit of infant Tylenol and lots of cuddling later, she’s asleep in her crib and her head is cool again. I think I’ll keep her home from school tomorrow though, just to be safe.

We left early and went to the park, and rolled around in the grass giggling and smooching. I tickled her, she was laughing so hard. I was laughing too, nibbling her cheeks and handing her rattles. She rolled into the grass and mud, I fed her a bottle. We napped lying next to each other, my arm over her chest, cuddling her. She was in a great mood. I was in a great mood. It was a beautiful, warm, breezy late summer day. And I realized it was my last with her… Tomorrow I pack. Wednesday we leave for Burning Man. And when we return, the summer will be over and she’ll start school.