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Bananas. She loves them. She also can't get enough of pears and sweet potatoes. She isn't too averse to "garden vegetables" (which, coincidentally, includes PEAS!! without her knowledge). So she's doing well with the solid foods. This evening, I plan to chop up a banana into tiny squishable pieces and letting her work on her fine motor skills for a while. I anticipate a sticky, banana-flavored face, so it will inevitably be bath night.

She sits up quite well these days, with only the occasional backwards fall. She's doing well at not overreacting and we always hesitate for a few seconds before rushing to comfort her, so that she doesn't decide to flip out immediately. She's not hurt, and I want her to learn to bounce right back :)

She's getting to the "mad" point when on her stomach and not able to reach her toys, so I think she'll start working out the mechanics of getting her knees under her to crawl, or pulling herself forward with her arms. Right now, she has learned that if she's on a blanket, she can pull the blanket toward her and the toys will come along too.

She is still sleeping fairly well, only waking up once to eat, and sometimes sleeping till about 5:30 am. Can't complain about that!! She is getting better about taking a long afternoon nap in her crib if we put her there and leave the room.

I can't believe she is nearly 7 months old! Her first plane right will be in June and she will be a burly 9 month old. Crazy.

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Don't look at me, those are Adelaide's words. I have proof!

Squish Squash

We finally found something she won't spit back in our faces: squash. Woo! She ate nearly an entire little can of it on Saturday evening and then went to bed.

Last night she slept from 8pm to 4:45am. Niiiiiiiiice. I slept like the dayd.

Not much new going on. She sits up all by herself, as some of you saw in one of the YouTube videos. She loves to stand with one of us giving her a little support or hand to lean on. This morning she went berserk in her bouncy monkey chair jump-jump thing. I put her in it and she immediately began bouncing around like a wild-girl, feet leaving the ground and everything. I have to upload that video and then it'll be posted as well.

Gaah ignore any typos, apparently I can't type this morning. Stupid fingers.

-t

AJ and the Applesauce

As you regular followers know, we had an epic battle with the peas a couple of weeks ago. They were of the fail. Needless to say, it was hilarious. If you managed to miss the video, here it is:



Two nights ago, we decided to try something different. Applesauce. We were so excited because babies LOVE applesauce. Right?



Applesauce... fail.



Today, I picked her up from daycare and came home. She was in an extraordinarily good mood (which is saying something because this child seems to always be in a good mood, this was just over the top silliness), so I put her in her monkey jump chair and washed her bottles. Remarkably, every single bottle was present. Usually, we have at least one AWOL bottle.

After I was done washing all of her stuff, I took her into the den and plopped her into her walker (which by the way, her feet do not reach the floor in that thing yet) and had some work to do on the computer. I decided to try a new snack that would also help her work on her grasping skills. They are these little yogurt snack things that melt in babies' mouths. Here is the result:



Food is an adventure.

I am a horrible blogger!

Life has been a little hectic around here lately, and the blog is usually the first to suffer. I don't even know where I left off!

February 10th was the last entry!?!? Wow I fail so hard.

Well, I'm over the daycare thing. No big deal. Besides, every pacifier that makes it home is added to the arsenal is randomly depleted due to AJ flinging them everywhere anyway, so no loss! Binkies are like magical little beings that disappear only to reappear later in a spot that is unexplainable. For example, she was napping on the couch and at some point, the yellow paci disappeared. We check the cushions, the blankets, her clothes, under the furniture. Nothing. Two weeks later it showed up... in the middle of the floor! *puzzled*

The latest big news is that we finally decided to trade in the Wrangler. It was a long and arduous decision and an even longer and more arduous process finding the right vehicle. I looked at the Jeep Commander more than once and was convinced I should buy that one. Yet I had a nagging feeling that it wasn't right. I decided to go look at Nissan Pathfinders and Toyota 4Runners if for no other reason than to eliminate them from the list of possibilities. I fell in love with a 2010 4Runner. After the first dealership lost our business, I went elsewhere and got a gun metal gray one that I dubbed Gandalf. LOL!

It's good for us though because the 2010 can do everything a Wrangler can do but with more comfort and more interior space. Score!

Dad is in town which is awesome. He was supposed to fly in last Sunday, but ended up surprising me by getting in on Friday evening. S-Factor, Sistah, and my friend J were all in on the surprise. He flies out tomorrow but he said he plans to come back out again for a while in July. Can't wait! It's going to be nice to actually get to do some hikes this summer haha!

Speaking of being outside, we bundled AJ up in her pram and went for a couple of walks this past weekend. That was fun. She slept through the first one but looked all around at Garden of the Gods. She's so funny.

But alas, today she has a fever of 102.9. I don't think it has anything to do with being outside because she was seriously bundled up like Ralphie in Christmas Story haha! Just another infant fever. Poor thing.

Pics will be posted (either here or on FB) soon.

Much love!
-t

I really don't expect much

I think I'm pretty laid back when it comes to childcare. I know they can't pay attention to each infant every hour of the day, and I'm actually happy they don't. I feel babies need time where they must entertain themselves. I don't mind the days AJ spits up or has a blow out and comes home in strange pants, because I know the laundry gets done multiple times a day there.

However, I am not very thrilled by the idea of AJ coming home with someone else's pacifier. I don't know if it was a spare that has been sanitized because they couldn't find hers (two were in her car seat in the hall, and one was in her bottle carrier in the room), or if it was on the floor near her and they assumed it was hers.

It just gives me the willies. I know kids stick things in their mouths and she'll probably lick another kid's face later on down the road... but that's not something the day care can prevent. They CAN attempt to prevent the workers from randomly sticking some other kid's binky in my kids pie-hole.

Anyway, it's not that big of a deal, I just wanted to get that out.

The weekend was great. Unfortunately, we were so wrapped up in the game, we didn't take Superbowl pictures with all of our gear on. We will stage a photo shoot soon and post those pics here or on Facebook. I tend to update the blog during breaks at work, and I can't upload pics from here, which is why this blog has like none. Sorry!

A-Train is rolling over lately. Yesterday, she did it twice like she was "showing" me what she can do now. She would roll over and look up at me with this HUGE smile so of course I made a big show of it like she just won a gold medal in the Winter Olympics. She only rolls to the left so far. She's not an ambi-turner.

10 points to whomever can name what movie that last line is inspired by ;)

-t

Rollie Pollie Ollie

She rolls over now! Not consistently, and sometimes she needs a little help, but she's getting there.

I also have a couple of pics to share of her holding her own bottle for the duration of the six ounces she consumed. More later!

:)

-t