Accomplishments

Why is it when your significant other is around, you seem to find yourself being the most boring and tedious person?

Many believe that you get into a "rut" when you're with someone for a long time, or when you've run out of new and exciting things to do. It seems we're defined by time. Almost as if we lose our sense of self worth, all because of familiarity. You see married couples in their 5th, sometimes 6th year, and they just seem more like roommates then two people who love each other. It's almost like living with a brother or sister, whom you have occasional sexual encounters with. *Not to say marriage is incest, just looks to be as comfortable and as natural as siblings.*
But the day either of you is gone from one or the other, the old "fun" you seems to appear.

You seem to find yourself cleaning more, or even letting loose more about trash. Finding out what you really enjoy and don't enjoy, while the other isn't around. This never seems to happen when one or the other is just off at work, or some other activity during the day or a certain amount of hours, but when its at least a days worth and you really have time to just think for yourself. You almost wish you were that person more often when the other person's around. Every time you try though, it always seems to back fire and you look more like somethings wrong then you trying to be that "fun" you again.

Does marriage end up defining a person's personality? Or does it allow you to get so comfortable, you just stop trying to be happier each day, and allow yourself to be content?

The 4 month milestone???

Statistics claim that at 4 months a baby is safe to experiment with rice cereal.

I on the other hand believe that the child can tell you when they're ready.

Take my daughter for example. She had hit her 3 month mark and during the night time feedings NOTHING seemed to fill her up for long, when previously I was able to feed her and have her sleep for at least 4-5 hours. She won't take a bottle, since I exclusively breast feed, so supplementing with formula was near impossible. I took the initiative to start her on the rice cereal at 3 1/2 months just to see if it helped.

I tried and ...

1. She didn't know what was going on, since the only form of food she's had was my breast.
2. She thought it had an odd taste and gave me a look like I was insane if I thought she was going to eat this for much longer.
3. Her tongue thrusting was making it impossible to get her food to go back in her throat.

Yes, I do know that the first time anyone tries anything, they'll always be hesitant and not always the best at it. So I decided that giving it a few days to at least a week should help. Well the sleeping didn't change for the first week, but she started to learn to swallow things little by little. She still didn't like the rice cereal though, so with a week shy away from her turning 4 months, I bit the bullet and mixed in some sweet carrots in with the rice cereal.

She was immediately IN LOVE with the baby food. She was opening her mouth every time I had another spoonful and she was making the "num num" sound when I would put more into her mouth. As well as, that night she went to bed at 9pm, woke up at 1am for a quick filler, then was out until 9:30am.

Regardless of what other mothers seem to think, a child definitely can tell you when they're ready, you just have to learn to listen.
If you'd like to go by doctors standards: Great, they are there for a reason.
But I know that motherly instincts can speak louder then a PHD, at times. I'm just learning day by day to dissect those instincts, among my own impatience.