The Return of Darth Critter

Last night was definately a trial.  Between teething and allergies my sleep for the night consisted of 15-20 min naps throughout the night.  Poor Critter sounds like Vader and starts snorting whenever she tries to laugh.  The good news is that I seem to have a very strange child who thinks having her nose suctioned out is funny.  I've already lost count of how many bibs and shirts we've been through today.  Between the snot and the drool I think I'm about ready to throw another load of her stuff in the wash.

While I know that once she's started crawling I'll be wishing she'd be still, I still can't wait til she's mobile.  I've tried to encorage the process by putting favorite toys just out of her reach... instead she's figured out that if she grabs hold of the blanket she's laying on she's able to just pull the toy to her.

I'm thinking about starting sippy cups soon.  She'll be 6 months tomorrow.  My baby's growing up.  Anyhow, you'd think that something like a sippy cup would be a rather simple thing.  No, it's not.  There's the kind I had as a kid, ones with nipple like tops for transitioning, ones with straws, even some with the sports bottle type of flip spout.  I can't help but think that maybe parenting is becoming over complicated in some aspects.  I have learned one thing though.  No one is going to ever entirely approve of how you are raising your child.  For every article, study, or piece of anticdotal evidence there is for one side of an arguement, there's just as many on the other. Co-sleep or not. Bottle vs breast. When to start baby food.  Pacifier or not... if so what kind.  Its rediculous.  A person could go crazy trying to second guess everything they do with their child.