Well, it seems that my lovely daughter will have to learn to sleep in her crib. I have spent the entire night rolling her back over from her belly to her back. She rolls every chance she gets. It's been a while now that we haven't been able to leave her on a bed, but just tonight she started rolling in her sleep. She has always been a co-sleeper (other than from week 10 to week 15 when she wanted to sleep in her crib and then decided she didn't want to anymore), but now she must learn to sleep on her own. This is not going to be fun.

People always give me a certain look when I tell them she sleeps in bed with me. It's the "oh, you're-going-to-be-sorry-you-started-that-habit" look. Then they say things like, "you'll never get her out of your bed" or "she'll be five years old and still crawling in your bed." I really don't mind. She's my little princess and she can crawl in bed with me until she's five if she wants to. But we have to be safe. I can't have her rolling over in her sleep and crawling off the bed. Not that she would though. I wake up every time she moves so really my problem is that I haven't gotten any sleep tonight because of her rolling. So... now I am forced to teach her how to sleep in her crib on her own. It sort of makes me sad.

By the way.. she said "mama" last night. Not purposely, but she said it. It made my day. She is also starting to figure out how to crawl. She started pulling her knees up under her. She hasn't yet figured out the upper body portion of the maneuver, but I imagine she will before long. She is mobile, however. She manages to scoot across the floor just fine without technically being able to crawl. My baby girl is growing up so fast. She also does this shoulder-shrugging thing now. She looks at me sideways and tucks one shoulder up under her chin and throws her arm out behind her as if to say, "how the heck should I know." It is so darn cute. I will have to try to get a picture of it.