Little Miss Homemade: My Little Sophia Loren

My Little Sophia Loren

Posted by Hope Zoll on Monday, April 18, 2011.

If anyone asked me to my face, I would tell them that Lily has been crawling for weeks now. After all, she is nearly 10 months old. The reality is that the break dancing worm technique, that only got her traveling at a pace of 6 inches every 5 minutes did not (as much as I wanted to lie to myself) constitute as crawling.

Well my little Sophia Loren found her motivation… the meatball. Me being the ~~nervous~~ cautious mother that I am, have been afraid to give her any meats so far. I have no good explanation of this fear other than my doctor telling me to not give her any until she turned 9 months. So obviously there’s some scary reason of why you have to wait, right? Maybe it would make her choke, hurt her belly, make her grow a tail and crave grass, I'm not sure… I don’t ask these questions on the well check-up appointments. I just listen intently with my mouth and eyes wide open and try to write a list in my head of what to do to keep her healthy, happy, and human ;).

Yesterday Lily wasn’t down with this idea. I swear, I could hear the eye of the tiger song in her head as she made her first (real) baby crawl steps toward big brothers meatball on the floor. Brody thinks the sight of her crawling is hilarious by the way. My first instinct was to grab the meatball and replace it with little puffs but then I realized that it’s time to relax. And I realized how cute and happy she was eating this little meatball. My little girl is growing up! The easy days of the vegetarian worm are over.