We went for our "6 month" pictures a few weeks ago--our photography had been on maternity leave so we were late for them. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the preview pic she posted...
I can't believe how big she is getting! We played outside a lot over the beautiful holiday weekend even though mommy was sick. She tries so hard to work those legs to push herself into a crawl and gets frustrated when she can't do so. She also gets upset when she wants to sit up. She hasn't begun to try to figure out how to get to that position.
I sat her in her crib Monday and she was SO close to pulling herself up to a standing position! I think if she hadn't had on footed jammies, she would have made it.
Ditching the pacifier was a good thing. She hasn't really missed it and stopped waking up for no reason during the night. She is waking up for bottles multiple times a night though. She's been going to bed around 6:30 or 7, waking up between 9:30 and 10 for a bottle, then again around 1 and 4. Eating is good though.
We still only have 2 toofers. Those top 2 will show up where we can see them just below the gums for a day or 2, then they'll retreat. This week we've been able to feel them pretty good. Isla likes to lean over and chomp to let mommy feel them.
Mom and I have known for awhile that Isla doesn't like to take care of her personal business when she's sitting down. Lately it's become obvious that her preferred position for this is standing in her exersaucer. Maybe this will help us down the road somehow potty training. I told P Monday when I put her in her exersaucer that she'd probably do a job while she was in there and sure enough, mommma knew what she was talking about.
We're babbling more and more all the time. For awhile most of her vocalizations were just screeches, screams, and various vowel sounds. Last weekend we really started practicing the "b" sound. Unfortunately we'd do this with exagerrated lip movements while eating.
Isla definitely lets it be known that mommy is her favorite. Sometimes I feel bad for whomever else (usually daddy) isn't her favorite at that moment, but mostly it just warms me that my little girl loves me. We're having some separation anxiety lately. Mom's started taking Isla outside as I leave in the morning to help keep her from crying.
What else? Oh, Isla LOVES her Leap Frog table and wants to stand and play at it all the time. She also loves walking. Both of these activities require assistance at this point, which usually means someone leaning over our petite little girl.
This weekend we'll take her 8 month pictures with Winston. Sunday Isla has a playdate with some of the babies of my coworkers. I can't wait to see how she and 9 month old E, 8 month old T, and 5 month old S interact and play. I hope they don't just sit and stare at each other! It it's okay with their mommies, I'll post pictures and video.
Oh, green peas are our favorite food lately. She'll screech for peas if she knows they're on her plate and we try to feed her something else. She's trying more and more "table scraps" too. She has several tiny bits of a breadstick at Olive Garden the other night. She grabbed some rice off my plate tonight. She was eating the pulp from my lemon one day. She also likes the soft inside of a tater tot, ice cream, pudding. She's not sure about watermelon.
Isla loves drinking from a juice box and has gotten the hang of the straw pretty well. She likes it when we get some water in straw covering the end with our finger and letting it run into her mouth. She started trying to suck out of it some that way so we started letting her try a juice box. We'd have to squeeze it a little at first, but now she can do it herself. It's funny to watch though. She doesn't realize she should keep her mouth closed around the straw so she makes the sucking motion with her mouth as she drinks. Tonight she kept screeching for some of her white grape juice as she ate.
A friend's stepdaughter has had 2 foster girls for 3 years and has been through a lot to protect them. She found out last week that their adoption will be final next week. I wanted to do something for her so I wrote this and framed it for her:
When Motherhood Begins…
The first hug…
The first wiped tear…
The first nursery rhyme…
The first scraped knee…
The first bad dream…
The first bedtime story…
The first picture colored together…
The first batch of cookies baked…
This is when motherhood begins
HBU
December 26, 2003
AAU
April 8, 2005
In my heart
August 15, 2007
Forever Mommy
September 14, 2010
Congratulations to the U family!
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