I just skimmed my last post to see where I have left off. I had written that LO went to bed early two nights in a row. WELL, we put the brakes on that.... Tues night, she went to bed about a half an hour, maybe 45 min early, and she was up from 1:45am till 4:30am!!! I had no idea that messing her schedule up a little bit would prove to be so disastrous! So we've got her back on her old schedule and she is sleeping just fine, thank goodness. I don't mind the odd night here and there of having to get up. I just don't want it to become routine. The night that she got up in the middle of the night, her and i had a giggle fest.... hehe I can't even remember what about, but it must have been pretty funny, because we took turns laughing :P

With the exception of today (so far), she has been a bit cranky lately... I think she may be teething, but I'm not too sure.

She ate her first solids outside of our house yesterday. I took her to grammy's house and she got fed in her Bumbo. It went over pretty good, although she didn't want to drink her bottle. I think she was too distracted with all the new things she could look at. And it didn't help that the dog was trying to sniff her head, lick her hands, feet, etc. LO loves animals, and really thought this was pretty funny. Later on when we went outside to try and calm LO down a bit, the dog was actually showing off for her! He was tearing around, running in circles, etc and LO was laughing and laughing. She loves animals. She is in love with our cat. Always tries to 'pet' her, which is usually grabbing a handful of fir.... thank goodness our cat is pretty patient, which surprises me..... The last two times I took her for a walk around the cove, she laughed at the ducks! Not sure why but she thinks they are pretty funny!

She is starting to get the hang of crawling. She can definitely get where ever she wants to go, but she still looks like a little frog! LOL She has her legs bent out to the sides and just pulls herself along! Today she was putting her legs underneath her a bit more, so it won't be long.

So the bath incident has traumatized her :( We put her back in the big bath on wed night and she was fine for about a min, and then she started crying and shaking. After her bath, I lifted her up in the air to clear the side of the tub, and she was gasping she was so afraid :( Poor thing. We decided to move the baths back to the sink for a while and hopefully she'll forget. Last night she was ok for a few min, but again started crying, and when I lifted her up she started gasping again :( Not quite as bad as when she was in the big bath, but still. Poor thing. She LOVED the bath before this!!! I think tonight I will put a towel on me and then lift her out of her tub and on to me so she is not in the air for long.... Not sure if that will help. We'll see!

Sweet potatoes

Its been a great couple of days. Yesterday I took LO to her first baby party. It was a Hawaiian theme, which was really fun. A lot of the older babies were wearing Lai's (sp?) and grass skirts. My LO is too young for that, as everything goes into her mouth, including the other kids grass skirts.... haha. It was really neat to see the babies interact with one another. LO was the youngest one there, and she had a ball. She missed her nap, was fed on the floor, and she didn't make much of a fuss. She did fuss a little bit when she was really tired, but nothing too loud. One of the moms said she was really quiet and was a good partier LOL.

Last night I had a bit of a scare with LO. I was bathing her in her little tub, inside of the big tub like we've been doing for a few days now. She leaned forward to get her ducky. She does this all of the time so I didn't think much of it. This time she inhaled a bunch of water!!! She was weezing and coughing and crying! I took her out of the bath fast and turned her over. I have no idea if that's what I am supposed to do, but its what I did without thinking. Everything turned out fine, she coughed it up no problem, but it scared me to death. As soon as she was ok, I put her back in the bath right away so that she wouldn't be scared of it. Again, no idea if that is what I should have done. I felt terrible about it all night. Tonight when I bathed her, I stuck my whole head in the tub so I could see what she was doing. NOT going to let that happen again. It was much easier to see her before because she was at eye level, but now I have to look down, so I have to adjust the way I keep an eye on her I guess. Scary scary scary.

Today she got her first taste of sweet potatoes. She didn't make any faces, it was pretty much the same as carrots to her haha. Today she started this weird thing where she takes some in her mouth, then sucks her thumb! After every bite this afternoon she did this! I am SO regretting taking her soother away so early. I really didn't realize how much she would resort to the thumb... I thought it was only going to be when she is tired.... she is doing it more and more these days, and I'm sure its too late to re-introduce the soother...

We played on the floor like we usually do. We also had a little photo shoot on the floor. We layed on the floor with our heads close together and I took pictures. I loved it :) She had fun too haha.

She went to bed early for the second day in a row. Not sure why, but now she starts getting really cranky around 6:30 and we have a hard time getting her to 7pm before we start her bedtime routine. I can't put her to bed much earlier though! Oh every time we get a good routine going, she changes it!

She even let me walk on the treadmill for 25min while she played in her exasaucer right next to me. Ahhh what a good day :)

Carrots = success!

Wow! There is so much to blog about this time, but I am SO sleepy, I don't know if I will get through it all. If there are a lot of typos....you know why :)

LO crawled on Friday morning! Like really, belly off of the floor type crawling :) She has been pulling herself around for a while, but this time she put her legs underneath her and went! I was so excited, I raced to the computer and put it on Facebook. Tons of people liked my status, and lots made comments. Yay I have a crawler! But maybe I should have waited before I told the world because, she hasn't done it since.... LOL SO now I feel kinda silly.... her aunt and grandmother called after seeing my status, and even came over to visit to see her crawl. I explained what had happened...and I put her on the ground to show them how much she actually does move. She can easily get from one end of the room to the other in no time at all, even if she doesn't take her belly clear off of the ground. But, of course, yesterday when her auntie and nanny came over, I put her on her belly and she didn't go anywhere at all.....And the more I tried to explain what she does, the less she actually did....and the dumber I felt.....HAHA Oh well. What can you do. Lesson learned. I won't put it on facebook that she has taken her first step until she is 12......

She had her first taste of carrots yesterday :) She LOVED them! I was quite surprised. I thought they'd end up everywhere but her mouth, but she ate her whole serving! She ended up with one little speck on the top of her head, but other than that, she did pretty well. She really didn't make too many faces, which is strange because she is a very expressive baby. She made way more faces today when she was fed her first non-warmed up bottle.... hmm.... that doesn't sound like a correct term.... but I'm going to leave it because I'm tired, and I know you get it. :P

She has discovered how to splash like heck in the bathtub. Now that she has moved over to the sitting part of the bath, she splashes like crazy. Thursday night she soaked me and half of the kitchen. Friday night, she even got her grandma who was watching from afar.... not sure how she did that! Last night, we got wise and put her tub inside the bathtub. You should have seen the face when I put her in there! I caught part of it in a picture, but it was definitely a WTF look, if I've ever seen one LOL

This morning I had her on my lap because she had been fussy, and I was eating some cereal and surfing the net at the same time. I had to laugh. You would never have seen such a thing even 10 years ago! But this is the face of today's mom! As I was thinking this, LO grabbed a handful of my cereal and when I said no and took the bowl away, she dropped what she had on the floor under the computer. 'Nope. THIS is the face of today's mom.' :D

I seriously can't believe how fast she is changing!

Well, its been quite the week! Little one had a "Baby well" Dr's appointment on Monday. I love these appointments because I get to see how much she has grown and how much she weighs, etc. My doctor gives us a print out of her height and weight on a chart that also has previous visits plotted on it. At 6 months old, I have a 'tall' and small baby LOL She is only 14.8lbs! Hehe. Just a tiny little thing. But when I asked him if she is doing well for her age, he said she couldn't be doing any better :) That's always nice to hear. It's almost like a conformation that I am doing the right things.

She had her 6 month needles yesterday. She did very well. Cried more than last time, but didn't cry for long. She is such a trooper! After her needles were finished, every time the nurse would come near her, little one would start breathing faster like she was going to start crying again!

We took her over to my mom's house last night and put her on the carpet. When we put her toy a few feet in front of her, she pulled herself towards it until she could grasp it. This has been going on for a little bit, but my mom had never seen it. I wish I could have taken a picture of my mom's face! She was so excited! I loved it. Today, little one is almost crawling! She lifts herself up off of the ground and gets her legs and arms going at the same time! She is moving a lot more, and a lot faster. She's just not lifting her belly that far off of the ground yet. I give it a week and she'll be zooming around here. Time to baby-proof the house!

On Tues, I was putting up our new curtains in the living room. I had little one in her swing, and she was watching everything I was doing very intently. I hung the valance scarf, but it didn't look right. I stood back and asked her what she thought and she did the razz noise! HAHA I loved it. I said "yeah it does look pretty bad doesn't it?" And she made the noise again! We both had a great laugh over that.

She has been eating rice cereal since sunday. She gets it twice a day at lunch and at supper so far. I'm not sure if I am supposed to be feeding her solids with every meal or not, but I think for now, this is ok.... I'm always playing the guessing game.... I think motherhood is one big guessing game....Today, I had her in her highchair and I was trying to feed her some of her rice cereal. She likes to try to feed herself, so her hands are always covered in the sticky mess that was once a meal.... haha. Today she decided that her eyes needed rubbing.... HAHA what a mess. It was everywhere! I loved it. We, again, had a big laugh over that. She loves to laugh!

A few more firsts!

Wow. Little one is really changing! She's growing so much and so fast! On Friday, hubby was holding little one and she leaned out and towards me. She has done this a few times, but this time, she reached out to me and grabbed on to me. I let her guide me and she pulled me in and 'kissed' me on my cheek! :O It was so cute!!!! I loved it!

Yesterday we went out of town with her. We've done this a few times before, so it was no big deal. It was much harder to feed her this time, as she is much more interested in what is going on around her. All 3 times we fed her on the road, she didn't drink as much as usual, and took much longer to eat. Yesterday she got to go in her stroller without the car seat for the first time! She loved it. We went around the mall with her in the stroller and she just loved looking around and seeing what everyone was doing. She got tired a few hours into the trip so I held her till she was almost asleep, and we leaned the back of the stroller back and she went to sleep while we shopped! :) We went out for supper and put her in her bumbo. She didn't want to stay still! She tried to eat the table, place mat etc. But she was very quiet and let us eat. She was such a good girl. She didn't make any noise at all! The waitress came by after about an hour and said "WOW, she has been such a good baby! Haven't heard a peep out of her!"

We got home a few hours after bedtime. She had a good sleep in the car, but when we got home, she didn't really want to go to sleep. She went down around 11:30 or so HAHA. Hubby put her first highchair together last night as soon as we got home. I think he was a bit excited LOL So far we like it. Its an Eddie Bauer deluxe. My only complaint so far is that it doesn't fold as well as I would like, and the fabric isn't easily cleaned, but other than that, its pretty good.

Today she got her first taste of rice cereal! It went pretty well. We caught most of it on camera which is great. She made some pretty funny faces! I didn't think she liked it at first, but by the end of it, she was grabbing the spoon and putting it in her mouth on her own!!!! I loved feeding her! It was pretty fun. Now as I say this, I know that sooner than later I'm going to be sitting there with her and saying to myself OMG I wish she would just EAT, or UGH I wish she didn't just throw that on the floor. haha But for now its pretty cool. I can't wait till she can eat something with a bit of taste!

Today we took her for a drive, and then fed her her first meal of rice cereal for lunch. It must have given her some energy because she won't nap!!!!

She is on the move...Kind of....

Yesterday morning, I put her down on the blanket in the middle of the kitchen. Her and I hang out here quite a bit haha. I put her rubber ducky in front of her, and she pulled herself to it! She's like a little frog. She doesn't 'crawl' yet. She pulls with her arms and pushes with her legs, but doesn't lift her belly yet. Well, she did for 2 little strides, but then she flopped down and never did it again. I don't even think she realized she did it LOL. She pulled herself all over the kitchen yesterday! After a bit she gets kinda mad because when she goes after something, she usually ends up pushing it away.... then she gets frustrated and mad. She will do that growling noise she does, and then she'll get mad and cry or scream. Last night, she did the frog hop for her dad as soon as he got home. It was pretty cool. But today, she doesn't really want to do it! She's doing it a bit, but not as much as yesterday.

She is 6 months old today! I can't believe it! I can't wait to feed her solids this weekend after we get her highchair. Will definitely have the camera rolling for that! Even if she will only be getting plain rice cereal at first! Well, its 11:40am and she is waking up from her second nap today.... time to feed her!

Changes!

Wow. Little one is almost 6 months old. She is changing so much! We pretty much spent the weekend at my moms house. While we were there, little one started to sit up when we were trying to feed her! She has been doing this now and then for a bit, but not to the extent she did yesterday! When we got home, she even sat up in the bathtub! Today, I've been sitting her up and letting her try to balance herself. She is doing pretty well. At one point, she sat up on her own for like 30 sec before she toppled over haha! She toppled frontwards a few times, and one time, she kicked her legs underneath her and pushed herself up so she was on all fours and her stomach was off of the floor! She was SO close to crawling! She even moved one of her legs forward! But then she toppled over again LOL. I put her on the floor while I was making supper and she kept pushing herself up on all fours. I picked her up and put her in her chair because I wanted her dad to be there if she started to crawl! But then when he got home and we put her back on the floor, she just laid on her stomach and brought all 4s up in the air like she is swimming haha.

She had a little fit an hour before we were going to get her ready for bed, so we ended up putting her down for a little nap. When we got her up, she had pushed herself up against the crib and her head had 2 red dents in it from the bars of the crib! UGH I wish we could use bumper pads!

I bought her first box of cereal today :) It was on 3 for $9, so I got 2 rice boxes and one wheat box. She will get her first taste of cereal very soon. This weekend we are heading out of town to get her highchair. I wanted to feed her the cereal right on her 6 month birthday, but we figure we should have the chair first, just to set her routine up. :( We are so excited to feed her solids. Its funny that someday she will eat everything we eat, she will crawl, walk, go to school, etc and we will forget that we once were so excited for something so normal. Something that everyone does. But somehow its like a small victory for us as parents to see our kids reach these 'common' goals.

New Schedule=so far so good!

Little one has been on her 'new' schedule of getting up at 7:30am and going to bed at 7:30pm for a few days now. It has been going very well. Yesterday she wanted to sleep in till 8am though, which was ok because we had a mommies thing to go to last night, and we usually don't get home until after 8pm. It was great to get out with her last night and talk with some other mommies. I went from having something to do every day of the week but Thursdays, to having nothing to do at all! But its summer and I'll start taking her out for walks and stuff like that. There are a few places that I can take her close to home so that won't be so bad. We've been sitting out on the deck on a blanket in the early morning lately. Its pretty fun! She loves it, and we get to spend time outside before it gets too hot. The other day a squirrel ran out onto the deck about 2 feet away from her haha. She watched it walk across and then run under the deck, but didn't really care too much. I love our blanket time!

So much for my 8am sleeper!

Little one has decided to change her schedule again.... just when we get used to it! I was really loving putting her to bed at 8pm and feeding her again at 8am... Spoiled. I know...The last week or so, she has been getting up earlier (btw 7 and 7:30) and our night time routine has been a struggle. She is screaming and kicking after her bath now. Its really hard to get her dressed. She flails around and throws herself around. I swear she was going to hurt herself!! So we have decided to change things around and start her night time routine a half an hour earlier. Today was the first day on the new routine, and she fussed a bit, but not nearly as much as usual. She was in bed sleeping by 7:40, so it worked out well.

She is doing this grunting growling thing too. Its kind of annoying.... I'm hoping its just something she has learned to do with her voice so she thinks its neat. But it sounds like she is making her pooping grunt. It also sounds a bit aggressive... which is scary! But I am sure its just something new for her.

Today we went shopping. I took her into the first store in her stroller. The other two stores I took her in her baby bjorn carrier. LOVE that thing! We hadn't gone shopping in it yet, and she seemed to really like it. I felt like people were looking at me strange though.... oh well! We had a good time! I bought her her first bowl and spoon set! She is not on solids yet, but will be this month! VERY exciting!

We had a bit of a poop situation today LOL I changed her diaper, and she had pooped just a little bit (Shart as my hubby calls it LOL). I put her in her exasaucer for a bit. She started to fuss a bit, so I went to get her out and I could smell the poopies. So I changed her and it was all the way up to the top of the back of her diaper. It didn't go out of the diaper, thank god! So I'm changing her, and she decides to flop around a bit. Next thing I now, there is poop on my bare leg! Somehow she got her foot in her poop, and then hit me with it!!!! So I laughed and continued to clean her up as fast as I could. I was worried about her getting poop on the blanket that I was changing her on, and I dropped the poopy wipe on my other bare leg! So there I was with poop on both of my bare legs, with BOTH of us laughing haha!

G2G! bachelorette is on!!!

I went through her clothes today, and the story of how we found out she was a girl

Well, I went though the closet and her room today. It was very unorganized, so I took some boxes (a diaper box and the Bumbo box) and put the clothes that are too big in one, and the clothes that are too small in the other. My little girl is pretty small, so there hasn't been a whole lot that she has grown out of. The too big box is stuffed full, and the too small box only has about 5 or 6 outfits in it :) I was particularly sad to put 2 sleepers in the too small box. One was the one that we found out she was a girl, and the other was one that caught my eye every time we went into the store, even though we thought she was a boy at first!

So we decided we wanted to find out if we were having a boy or a girl ahead of time. We figured we could get the room ready and buy the right kind of clothes. But we didn't want to find out by a tech telling us while I lay on a table. So during the ultrasound, she asked us if we wanted to know the sex. We said yes, but I asked her to write it down and put it in an envelope. We took the envelope to the store and picked out a gift bag, a blue onesie and a pink onesie. We took everything up to the cashier, gave her the envelope, and told her to look at the envelope and put the right onesie into the bag and seal it up. We would be back to pay for it. The cashier kept saying how weird it was, but by the time we got back, she thought it was pretty cool. We told her that we were going to open the gift up on our first wedding anniversary. So the bag sat on the mantel for over a month! It was SO hard not to look. We thought we were having a boy, but I kept dreaming about pink. I even had a dream that I moved the bag, and it was open, and I accidentally saw inside, and it was PINK! In the dream I was like OMG Hubby is going to think I looked on purpose! So a month later, our anniversary came. We told everyone that we were going to open our gifts after supper, but when we got up, we obviously couldn't wait. We opened the gift up, and there was a PINK onsie in it!!!!! We were so excited!!!!! I am not a crier, but I cried. I was so happy. Hubby teared up, although he will say he didn't LOL. After that, we went out for breakfast with my mom and step dad. We actually had the bag with us in the car, but didn't let them know. We pretended we didn't know anything yet. That was SO hard!! After breakfast, we went to my brother's house and got him to open it up. He was shocked. He thought it was a boy. I think he may have been a little disappointed because he said before he didn't really know what to do with a girl, but he loves her like crazy. Then we packed everything back up again and took it to mom's. We filmed her as she opened it up with my step dad. She was SO excited. I think she teared up too :) And then we took it over to my grandmother's house and got her to open it up. We took pictures of her opening the gift up. It was so cool to be there when each person found out. If we waited till she was born, then only hubby would be able to see everyone's reaction when everyone found out. But this way I was able to find out. That night, friends brought a gift over for us, and we showed them the onesie. It really was one of the best days of my life. We dressed her up in that sleeper to take her home too. It was WAY too big for her LOL So it was very bittersweet to put that away :(

Her first parade!

Yesterday we took her to her first parade. I was a little worried, because the night before, she was up from 4 until 5:30am!!! I couldn't believe this! She has always been a great sleeper. Oh well, a few nights here and there are still nothing compared to what most people have to deal with!

She did well at her first parade! She didn't really care much about the "floats" (we live in a small town, and most of the floats are really just decorated trucks and cars haha). A few caught her eye, but she really didn't care. About half way through she got a bit cranky. We took her out of the carrier and flipped her horizontally and held her. She fell asleep within seconds haha. She slept the rest of the way until the very end when all of the fire truck sirens went off.

We took lots of pictures, which I am happy about. I feel like she is growing up so fast and even though I'm here every second, I still feel like I am missing things. But writing this blog and taking pictures really help me remember everything.

Here's a few firsts that I haven't written down yet, but they're really just for me. I know you guys don't care when she drank her first 8oz bottle, or when she started rolling around LOL

June 3rd: She drank her first 8oz bottle. Almost a month later, she only drinks an 8oz bottle once every few days!

June 5th: She rolled over from front to back for the first time :) She had been rolling from back to front for a little bit, but today she went the other way! I was trying to get everything packed to go out of town to visit a family member in the hospital. I had her on the floor with nothing around her while I left the room for a second to get something to put in the suitcase. When I came back, I caught her rolling :)

June 6th: On the way home, we stopped in a city along the way to meet up with my mom, step-father and brother. We went to a restaurant and put little miss in her Bumbo. She was having a good time chewing on it and we had a good time chatting with each other over supper. When we were done, I picked her up and realized that while she was chewing on the bumbo, she had drooled so much that it was all over the seat, under the bumbo, and, oh yeah, all under my pants! I had this huge wet spot on my butt and half way down my leg!! It looked like I had peed myself! We all had a good laugh and went on our way.

June 10th: She started to make a razzing sound. She did it all day and still does it often!

June 11th: She sat up in her infant to toddler rocker and pulled on the toy dog to make him sing! She had never done this before :)

June 30: She's grown so much that hubby had to bring the exasaucer up to a taller setting! Its crazy because when we first put her in it a few months ago, she couldn't touch the bottom of it on its lowest setting LOL

July 1st: her first parade :)