sleep

It's funny that when she wants to sleep she puts her head to the side. Sometimes it looks as though she wants to turn her head completly around. When I put her in her bed or playpen and she's ready for a nap/nighttime sleep, she puts her head generally to the left side and wants her chupete. And at 6 months old she is still waking up at least twice a night for milk. This morning at 5am she appeared ready to play. She loves her jumpy thing. Tonight she was dancing a lot in it and laughing at brother throwing the football down on the floor.

Our nighttime routine is a bath at 8:00ish, dressing, and then milk. She goes in her crib around 8:30ish. By 11 or 12 she's ready for more milk and then again at 3am. Many times she up between those times crying for her chupete. I get very little sleep on many nights!

6 months

My baby is 6 months old now. She can sit up pretty good, sometimes tipping over, though. She doesn't put herself up but if she's put sitting she can stay for a few minutes. She pulls herself up with the bar on her vibrating seat. She eats carrots, sweet potatoes, squash, pears, and bananas along with oatmeal and pear juice. She still does not do too well with a bottle and won't drink juice or water from one. I have to put a straw into the drink and suction it up to her mouth w/my finger. She is saying ga-da-da and making some other sounds, still sounding like a kitten sometimes. She has rolls of fat on her tummy and legs/diaper area. Creases! :> Her hair is getting longer but I noticed quite a bit of it in her crib today, like she's losing a good amount. She notices when you call her name and she turns her head towards sound. She looks for her toys that she drops so she's getting her object permanance. Her smile is fantastic!

can i add video too??

I'll try to put a video on

Christmas photos

She wore a red My First Christmas all in one pj, with ho ho ho on the back. We stayed at home for the morning and went to grandparents in early afternoon and then to cousin's in the evening. Here are some from the day. The eating one is of her first meal besides the oatmeal cereal. She loved the sweet potatoes!

some pictures

I'll try to put some photos on now. She began eating sweet potatoes on Christmas and she loved them. However, at night she had some problems either from gas from the potatoes or from her stuffy nose. Christmas night and the couple nights afterward I was up pretty much all night,with her crying and being fussy; she fell asleep in my arms and I slept sitting up. This Sunday I started with carrots and she eats them ok but not liking them as much as sweet potatoes.

Above are some photos from the past couple of months. Ewan as in McGregor from Moulin Rouge... a friend gave me that bib made special.

no more rice

There will be no more rice cereal because it made T constipated. I'm used to her dirtying many diapers each day and since there was a 3 day spell of no dirty diapers, we've stopped the rice cereal. We'll try oatmeal with some pear juice now. She was given some apple juice during this constipated period and I think that helped because she did 2 diapers today, none yesterday, and 1 the previous day (after her 3 days of none)... She ate the cereal very well but since she's had this problem, we are stopping it.

She's now 4.5 months old, so we can start with squash or carrots or something. My mother wants to give her applesauce and pears but I want to hold off on the fruit so she won't get a sweet tooth so soon, although with my mom involved it will be difficult because grandma always likes sweets. ugh!

We still don't have recent pictures uploaded; all on the camera still\

conductor?

The other night when I woke up to nurse her, she began drinking and then moving her left arm like she was conducting a symphony! It was so cute.

She rolled over again tonight.

Last night when I gently pulled her arms, she sat up with the motion. Before, she wouldn't pull up so now she has gotten the strength in her upper body.