Weekly Update

Hello! We're late again this week, but we're here!

We had a really good week with a hiccup in the middle. On Wednesday night Sweet baby L came down with a terrible cough and stopped sleeping through the night. (BUMMER!) Wednesday night she slept in her carrier because she simply couldn't keep from coughing when flat on her back. By Saturday she was much better although she still coughing now and again.

We are continuing to enjoy our playroom. The exersaucer is now the only place that I can put sweet baby L and know that she'll stay just where she is, but that's okay with her because she thinks it's awfully fun!





We now have an almost constant companion with us. I think poor James (the cat) has become so fed up with the lack of attention that he's following me wherever I go in hopes for even just a little love. He's been sleeping at my side too, so I'm trying to spread the love around when I can.



My mother's birthday was this week, and she decided that she'd really like to visit us to celebrate. We were thrilled! We had a wonderful visit and sweet baby L loved seeing her Mawmaw and Pawpaw and being super showered with attention.







We tried some new foods this week. Sweet baby L tried some cooked and strained peaches on Thursday evening. She was okay with them, but I'm betting she'll like peaches better in a couple of months when they are more in season. The five of us went to brunch on Saturday, and I ordered a huge fruit salad. Sweet baby L is getting to be very interested while we eat. She stares at us and looks like a hungry puppy. I had some mango in my salad and fork mashed it and offered some to her. She LOVED the mango. She ate most of what I had and then still wanted more! We have purchased a couple of mangoes and are just waiting for them to ripen before we puree and have them to eat! Today we tried plain yogurt (store-bought) and Lily was NOT a fan. I think it was too tart. I'm going to try making my own tomorrow and making it a bit less tart (by incubating it for a shorter period of time). She also tried sweet potatoes this evening and really enjoyed them!



Have a great week everyone! We'll see you next Monday!

Juno - revisited

This is a great review of "Juno" by Ellen Singer. Enjoy!

Weekly Update

This week was a lot of fun!

Sweet baby L celebrated her very first Valentine's Day with presents from Mawmaw and Pawpaw, Aunt Lisa and Uncle Kyle and something special from Daddy too! We set her up in the family room with her presents around her and I was so surprised at her reaction.



I hate that I couldn't get a good photo of this. She reached out for the bag nearest to her and with her mouth wide open just went after it. She knew what a gift bag was for, EATING! It was really cute.





I think sweet baby L was happy for all the love going around. She had a great time just opening things. I think that for every other holiday everyone can just wrap empty boxes because the wrappings/cards were her favorite parts!







We also made red velvet cupcakes (shaped like hearts of course!). Poor sweet baby L didn't get any! If Pawpaw were here he'd have fixed that.



Sweet baby L is learning something new everyday. She's been rolling back to front for awhile now. It has been that she would roll over in bed and then cry for someone to come and bail her out. On Saturday night we snuck in to watch her sleep and she was on her belly with her little bottom sticking in the air. We keep putting her in on her back and then we'll come in to find her on her belly, which is fine with me, really, but it's awfully cute.

Then Sunday morning we woke up. Well, Sweet baby L woke up at 10:30. 10.30. Yes, for real. It's crazy right? She's growing again, eating all the time and then sleeping a lot. She's back to eating in the middle of the night, but I'm telling myself that it's because she's growing right now. We'll see what happens with that.

So.... anyway, Sunday morning I bring her downstairs and set her on the family room floor and she rolls straight to her belly. Then she looks at us and rolls right on over to her back, then again and again. She'd rolled from her belly to her back a couple of times before, but never that quickly and never in succession. Life is never going to be the same. Everytime she's on the floor now, she's rolling around from one place to another. I'm not sure that she's figured out how to really "steer" herself yet, but she's really enjoying moving for now. We're going to have to install all of those baby gates. I left her alone in the playroom this morning for maybe two minutes and came back to her on the other side of the room. It's a whole new frontier in motherhood. I have to admit that I thought it would take longer for us to get here.

I didn't get any good photos of the succession, but this was right in the middle.



She's happy to be moving around! See you next week!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Weekly Update

We're late again this week! Sorry! :o)

We've had a great week! Sweet baby L slept for 12 hours (in a row! without eating!) twice. Last night was a bit rough, but we're going for three 12 hour nights tonight! Sweet baby L continues to grow and do new things all the time.





L spent lots of time with this toy this week. It's not new, but this week was the first time she really noticed it. I love her method of playing with it. She digs her legs in to the ground and then completely face-plants into the toy so that she can get as much of it in her mouth as possible. The thing is totally covered in sweet angel slobber by the time she's done.

Sweet baby L has also started another new hobby:







She is loving sitting in her exersaucer in front of the big windows at the front of our house and watching the traffic drive by (it's probably good for her to get used to loving traffic anyhow). She'll stop and play with the exersaucer toys every once in a while, but mostly she kicks back and checks out the cars whizzing by.

Sweet baby L and I had some friends over yesterday for a playdate. There are four babies in our church group right around sweet baby L's age (one wasn't able to come because her big sister was sick) and we took lots of photos!



Sweet baby O is on the left, born in late December, and sweet baby T on the right was born in late November, Sweet baby L was, of course, born in late August.

More friends:





We also took sweet baby L's five month bunny photo at the beginning of the week. She's getting to be so responsive and cuddly in her old age. It's very sweet. My heart just bursts when I look at these photos.





I do have to say, the bunny photos are getting a lot faster the older she gets. :o)

See you next week!

Guaca-baby!

Sweet baby L is loving solid foods! I'm exploring making my own baby food and before you say that it sounds like a lot of work it really really isn't! I can make lots of it in just a couple of minutes and freeze several servings at a time so I don't even have to make it everyday.

Sweet baby L's current favorite food is avocadoes. Yum!

All you need to make great pureed avocadoes is a blender, ice cube trays and avocadoes.



I try to buy organic produce because I worry about things like that, but of course any old avocado will do.

First, you cut them in half.





Then, you puree them in the blender.







This is exactly how I feed it to sweet baby L, but before she gets food I store the rest of it in ice cube trays.



This is the perfect single serving size. I allow them to freeze and then pop them out into a freezer bag and thaw them for 30 seconds in the microwave as she eats them. It makes for one happy baby! Can you tell avocadoes are her favorite?

Weekly Update

This week was very uneventful for us. We really just stayed in and played. So our photos this week are just from doing that.

We set up the playroom (our living room) this week. Sweet baby L has had a GREAT time down there with all her toys in one place. She's really getting the hang of the exersaucer now and moving back and forth and turning around and around. I can't believe she's getting so big. Sweet baby L also turned over from front to back and then started doing it from back to front. I'm a little worried because pretty soon she's going to figure out that she can put the two together and roll around!

In food news, I started making my own baby food this week. It's been very easy so far. At the beginning of the week we went for mashed bananas which she slurped off the spoon, and the last two days we've been having avocados. She ate a third of an avocado today! She is really mastering this solid food thing!

I spent my first night away from home on Friday, and of course, that was the first night that sweet baby L slept through the night. Brad fed her at 9:30 and then didn't hear from her again until 6:00. She has, of course, been waking up every night since I have been home, but there is at least hope now :o). I tell myself that it's just because she likes to see me, so there's no point in waking up when just Brad is there. Hee hee.

























Have a great week everyone and we'll have more next week!