6 Months

It's been 6 months since you came into this world. We went for your 6 month check up and here are your stats:

Weight: 14 lbs - 12%

Height: 26.75 inches - 82%

Head Circ: 16 inches - 6%

I think it's pretty funny that your height is in the 82nd percentile while your weight is in the 12th. You seem to have quite a few little rolls... on your legs mostly and you have a double chin. The doctor was very happy about your growth so you're doing just fine. We are introducing more and more solid foods. You are now on rice cereal and oat cereal (you prefer oat) and you've tried carrots and sweet potatoes and this weekend you tried your first fruit - apple sauce and you loved it! So yay, i think we'll try squash and pears next and see how you do with those. 

No signs of teeth yet, but everything you grab goes into one place and that's your mouth. Sometimes you drool a ton, and other times you don't. You are so curious about everything, as soon as you see something you reach for it and play with it. You are finally exploring the jumperoo, moving all around to different little stations and turning and touching the little toys, it seems to be a lot of fun. The one thing you don't love doing yet is rolling, you do it, but not all the time, so I think I need to be better at encouraging you to roll. Your baby push ups are definitely getting stronger and you get higher up off the ground. No real signs of crawling yet, just inching up a little if you have something to push off from. You can sit up by yourself for a few seconds, but you're not too steady yet. You pull up to a sitting position very well with just holding on to our fingers. It's been so much fun to play and interact with you. What a difference just a few weeks makes. When we read, you start pulling on the book (once again trying to get a part of it into your mouth) and you look at the pictures and sometimes even make noises. So cute! Oh and of course when you grab your feet, your toes go right into your mouth.

Here is your 6 month picture. Your hair is getting long, this little clip didn't stay on too long, but it was so darn cute! In the other picture you're holding your two feel as if you were up in the air doing a little cheerleader routine... haha

Holding your toes

Well you have mastered yet another skill. You started holding on to your feet. Actually more like your right foot, the left foot you're not that interested in for some reason. Sometimes you try really hard to put the foot in your mouth, and you almost succeed.

Not sure why but you don't seem too interested in rolling over these days. I've seen you do it a few times quite early and now you just stay on your tummy for a while and when you get tired you usually put your head to the side and just lay there or you get frustrated and start crying.

Also it worries me that when we go outside in the sun that your eyes water a little and your eyelids get a little bit red, and you even get little red spots on your face. I don't know if it's an allergic reaction to the sun or something. You always have a hat on and since I know that you dislike the bright sun we usually try to cover you up pretty well to shield you from it. I'll have to ask the doctor about that at your 6 month check up.

Otherwise you're the happiest little baby on the planet. You smile and giggle all the time and you're very ticklish... especially at the bottom of your feet.

Here are the latest pictures that I took with my new camera - a Nikon D60 that I got for Mother's day. Thank you and Daddy for your awesome gift and the scavenger hunt I had to go on to find it in the morning. Now I just have to learn how to use all the cool features on it.

5 Months

Well yet another month has passed by and you're getting bigger and bigger. You have beautiful blue eyes, very fair skin, and lots of blondish hair! Sometimes it even looks a little bit reddish in pictures. Just this week you started to hold your legs and your little feet in your hands, I haven't yet seen you put your toes in your mouth, but I have a feeling it will be very soon. Everything has been going in your mouth these days, everything! When you have a pacifier in, there are times when you pull it out, play with it, then put it back in. 

The solid feedings have been ok... I decided not to really force it too much. I had you try Oat Cereal this week and you seemed to like it more than Rice Cereal, but there is still a lot of spitting out going on... may be in a few weeks I'll try some veggie food to see if you like that. 

Toys, toys and more toys, you now have so much more interest in them. I can dangle something in front of you and you will reach for it and grab it, hold on to it, and very likely put it in your mouth. 

You're the cutest in the mornings. After you're fed I usually take you to daddy and wake him up by putting you on the bed next to him. You are so calm and cuddly at that time, I see you just fall into his arms and lay there so cute... it makes it that much hard to to leave for work!

You smile and laugh all the time, especially when you see me or daddy. The things that make you laugh are strange noises that we make in front of you, exercises with your arms and legs, and when we get you going you're also ticklish.

Chatting has also been a lot of fun for you. It's like your little language... I can't wait till they actually start making sense to us. :) 

You're now down to eating 5 times a day, 5-6 oz/meal. You are definitely gaining some weight, getting some chubs and I am not too worried anymore, but you are still our little munchkin. 

Chatter Box

First solid food

Your first solid food experience was not the best. First we put you in a little seat and I don't think you were comfortable in it. Then instead of mixing the rice cereal with a little bit of breast milk, for some reason I mixed it with water. It didn't look appetizing and was super watery. You made really awkward faces when the spoon would get into your mouth and you pushed all of it out with your tongue.  Then I tried again in a day and this time you were in the swing and after a few spoons you actually started to swallow, so that was pretty exciting. Now it's pretty much a hit or miss, sometimes you seem interested and other times like today, you are absolutely not interested in it. So I think it's still a bit too early, so I will probably wait for a few more weeks until introducing any other foods. 

You're quite a talker lately, and you now laugh when you get tickled or at different noises that we make. I've seen you roll over a few times now, from tummy to back, you stand on your little feet very well, and you love sitting. You even start fussing when you're laying down because you want to sit up. You're still sleeping through the night, usually from about 9pm to 6am, sometimes you decide to wake up earlier though. You are not a good napper though, you take may be one good nap in the morning, but the rest of your naps are less than 1 hr, and sometimes only 20 minutes long if anything at all, but I guess we can't ask for everything. In any case I'd rather have you sleeping well at night!

Back to work mommy...

So last week was my first week back to work. After being off w/you for 4 months I dreaded leaving you with a stranger. Daddy was able to take a week off and stay with you and you guys had a lot of fun, but now you are adjusting to your nanny. The very first day was really tough for me, but then it started to get better and I am sure w/each passing week it will be easier on all of us. You seem to like being with the nanny so far, although each day has been different, one day you nap for a long time, another day you barely nap at all. The first day back you even woke up in the middle of the night and did not want to go back to sleep w/a pacifier, so I had to nurse you around 2:30 am. I haven't done that in a few months since you spoiled us with sleeping so well before. That only happened one time, but you still do wake yourself up around 1:30am every night but you usually go back to sleep once I put the pacifier back in your mouth. Most of the time I find you busting out of your swaddle. I wonder when I should stop swaddling you? You seem to sleep so much better swaddled, but it is getting hotter now and I feel like you'll be too hot in a swaddle. I often find you w/your hands out of the swaddle and in your mouth sucking on a few fingers, it's really cute.

You are so happy in the mornings, daddy gets to spend over an hour with you before the nanny gets to our house. You chat, play and giggle. When I get home you're usually in a good mood too... that is after you're fed of course. You've been very chatty lately, almost carrying on conversations. Last night while we were having dinner and you were in your bouncer you started making noises, and you'd make one and wait, then daddy responded w/a similar one and then you'd make another, and you both went back and forth for at least a minute or two, it was really funny, also after your bath last night you started to coo, and then you got really loud, and some of the noises were super high pitched. I think you're discovering your voice more and more. It's amazing how just a few weeks make such a big different in how you interact and the new things that we discover you doing. I am still waiting for you to actively roll over from tummy to back and vise versa, and it really doesn't happen too much, although you seem very strong on your feet and you like sitting up with help of course. Also sometimes you do little baby crunches, you try to pull up while holding on w/both hands to our fingers and you almost launch your body forward. You don't have very good control of it, but I would defintely give you an A for effort. We got you a new toy mirror that sits on the floor w/color tabs and music and you now tolerate being on your tummy for longer period of times, you smile and stare at yourself, so hopefully it will help you meet your milestone of rolling over soon.

I took a bunch of pictures of you over the weekend, here is one where I tried to make you sit up in the purple chair but you started falling to the side and giggling. So adorable, we love you so much!