{swinging in the sun}
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Too Cute Thursday
March 15, 2012 by Katie
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Too Cute Thursday
March 8, 2012 by Katie
{you are my sunshine.}
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Eight.
March 3, 2012 by Katie
{Eight Months}
Everything. Goes. In. The. Mouth.
Height & Weight…no clue. Next appointment isn’t until 9 months, but if I had to throw out a guess, I’d say 19 pounds. She’s definitely a healthy girl.
Sleep….pretty consistently from 7:30pm to 7-7:30am. No complaining about lack of sleep in this house {except when her parents stay up too late, but they only have themselves to blame for that}.
Naps….still 2 naps a day. Morning nap is the longer one, usually 90 minutes or so. Afternoon nap varies from about the same, or a shorter 40 minutes {which will sometimes get her a 3rd short nap in her stroller during an evening walk}.
Eating….Her two bottom teeth came in at about 6 1/2 months but no sign of any upper teeth yet. Recent new favorite foods are Strawberry Pear Oatmeal, MumMums, Garden Vegetables w/ Pasta pureé. She is still getting most of her nutrition from breastfeeding four times a day, but we have started getting the smelly, more solid poop recently. {PEE-YOO! What a shock to the olfactory system after being spoiled these past almost eight months}.
Mobility…she’s 95% okay to leave sitting up by herself {which we need to do better about telling the church nursery helpers each week, because she’s had head bonks the past two Sundays}. Crawling is still off on the distant horizon, which is nice for me in that she’s not mobile and will still be in (relatively) the same spot I left her. She’ll kind of prop herself up on her hands and knees, then give up, lay down on her tummy, and manage to turn herself 90 degrees counter-clockwise.
Chatter…gagaga bablaba pfft. That’s about the extent of her vocabulary {although the other day, I’m pretty sure she grabbed her sock off her foot and said “i got it”—just one of those times where I wish somebody else would’ve been there to verify it}. Enjoys sticking her tongue out, which we’ve decided is a hereditary trait passed down from Todd’s mom to him and now to Elise.
Favorite things…anything she can grab to put in her mouth. Primarily, her feet, which she LOVES sucking on {sometimes both at the same time}. Enjoys chewing on spoons, cups & lids of all shapes and sizes {thanks to friendly Starbucks baristas, we have a stash of mini sample cups in the glove box for her to gnaw on in the car}.
She actually enjoys having her teeth ‘brushed’. Loves jumping/bouncing/’flying’—any motion like that is sure to get giggles and is a good distraction if she cries. Laughs when knocking on windows and looking at faces in the mirrors. And sometimes, she’ll just laugh at absolutely nothing {or maybe the babbles in her head}.
I think last month I said that 6 months old was my favorite age so far, but I’ve enjoyed the 7th month even moreso. And…yeah, we are 2/3 of the way through her first year, people! CAH-RAZY!
I even started brainstorming for her 1st birthday party. Just a little bit though, because you know me, I’m a pretty good procrastinator.
Somebody please make time slow down, mmmkay?
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Too Cute Thursday
March 1, 2012 by Katie
{little snuggle bug}
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Achievement
February 28, 2012 by Katie
If parenting were a video game, there would be many achievement awards that you earn along the way as you successfully navigate through certain experiences. {Sigh. This is what happens when your husband plays video games….you start thinking like him.}
Some examples of the Parental Achievement Awards would be:
The Rookie (100 points): Changed first diaper.
The Circus Seal (75 points): Clapped and cheered like crazy when baby first rolled over.
The Loner (150 points): Finally went to the bathroom without an audience.
The Vacuum (150 points): Eaten an entire meal in under a minute because your hands were finally free.
The Sponge (200 points): Been peed on in public without a change of clothes.
The Supersoaker (500 points): Been projectile vomited on.
The Siren (500 points): Survived an hour of screaming that is almost the frequency only dogs can hear.
The Backseat McGyver (1,000 points): Cleaned a massive diaper blowout in the backseat of a car in the middle of Wyoming….and ran out of baby wipes (bonus 500 points).
Well, today, I tallied up one more significant achievement.
Let me set the scene for you:
I’m changing Elise out of her pajamas and realize I have to very urgently go to the bathroom {this is what happens when you had to push for 3 hours in labor}. Knowing it’s not safe to leave her squirmy body on the changing pad, I put a blanket in the middle of the nursery floor and place her naked body on it. As I come back from the bathroom, I see her with a look of serious concentration on her face and her knees start to raise up to her chest.
Uh oh. I know what’s going to happen in about 2 milliseconds.
I look around the room, in search of anything within arms reach that is substantial enough {and okay to get messy} to put under her little butt.
Nothing.
Thoughts like, ‘‘Noooo! Not on my beloved Aden + Anais blanket!” and “This is gonna be epic.” race through my head.
And that, my friends, is when I earned my most recent Parental Achievement Award.
Let’s just call it …..
‘The Bare-Handed Catcher’.
Yep. That just happened.
50,000 points for me.
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