Sleep

Ah sleep. We are learning that parenting involves teaching your child how to get & stay asleep.
For a while Ruby took 4 naps a day. We had that down: an hour of play time, an hour in the sling, then carry, walk, or nurse her to sleep, nap 20 to 40 minutes, repeat. Now at six months she takes two big naps a day and has a lot more stamina, and we're a little confused: she can play, nurse, play some more, spend time in the sling, nurse again, play some more and only then go to sleep.....
At night, she's on what Keith terms the Breast Verification Program. We try to assure her the breast will be there in the morning, but so far she checks in four or five times a night.

Crawling Obsession

Ruby wants to crawl. She gets up on her hands and arches herself upward, brings her belly off the floor in a yoga plank pose, and yells. Then she bunches her belly, buries her nose in the rug and creeps herself forward a tiny bit. She can go backward and she can go in a circle but really what she wants is to go forward on command, get every toy available, cover a lot of ground, pull down the curtains, eat the plants, grab the cat's tail. She's pursuing this goal with her usual incredible vigor.