This month felt like lots of new tricks were learned. We started out the month in California and half way through came back to NYC, and then I left Marjorie for the first time to go to my friend's wedding in Colorado. It was a busy month!
Marjorie:
-at her appointment she was 16 lbs and 1 oz
-started sitting up on her own a couple days after her 8 month mark. She now sits up by herself just fine and knows how to catch herself when she starts to topple over.
-can push herself up from laying down to sitting up. This is becoming a problem when she's goes down for nap time...
-wants desperately to crawl! She gets up all the time on her hands and knees and can kind of push herself backwards. Every once in a while I think she may do one little crawl forward, but then usually just lays out to reach whatever it was she was trying to get.
-to get around she does a lot of swiveling on the floor and then pushing herself into a seated position, then rotating some more and then laying down and rolling a bit until she gets to wherever she wants to go. It's entertaining.
-is laughing more and more. Sometimes she gets to watch Baby Einstein while I'm showering, and I can hear her laughing and giggling at it the whole time. We played chase the dog the other night and she was screeching with laughter. So fun!
-loves her kitty (binky with a kitty attached to it), her nesting cups, stacking rings, kitchen utensils, monkey from Uncle Connor, cell phone, ipad... any and all ity bity pieces of lint, food, plastic, hair, etc. on the carpets...
-eats three meals and a snack each day. She's starting to not like the purees as much, but she still doesn't have any teeth at all so I'm not sure what to feed her. I also have a hard time because I think of things, but they're messy and I don't want to have to clean her up and change her clothes after every single meal. Maybe I should just give in to the messiness that is having a baby. She does consistently love to eat puffs (of course), chicken, apples, cheerios, pirates booty, and sweet potatoes.
-we switched out gassy tummy problems for constipation problems. She gets a dollop of peaches, prunes, peas, or pears with every meal in the hopes of making things a bit easier for her. Sometimes it helps, sometimes not.
-drinks water through a straw cup. I'd read somewhere that straw cups are better for helping develop the facial muscles you need for language and it seemed easier to be able to ask for a cup with a straw when we're out and about rather than needing to carry my own sippy cup, so that's all I've offered her. This month she finally figured it out. She can definitely drink from a straw sippy, but usually if she's eating finger food rather than purees, she wants nothing to do with it which is a bit frustrating because of the tummy problems.
-sometimes uses "mamamamama" to mean me, and somtimes uses "dadadadadada" to mean Dan. But not consistently.
-loves watching Fitz play and especially loves watching him play catch. Fitz also loves to bring Marjorie a ball to throw for him, and loves bringing her his rawhides because he knows how much she loves chewing on them (I tell myself it's good for developing her immune system and reducing allergies. Le sigh).
Mom:
-traveled back to NYC alone with M and it went much smoother. The flight to Denver was fine, she was able to take a nap in her stroller during the layover, and there was an open seat next to me on the longer flight from Denver to NYC which was Ah-mazing!!!!! She was so much happier having her own seat. She played with her toys and watched Baby Einstein and was a happy little girl the whole way, which means mommy was a happy big girl the whole way.
-I went to CO for my friend's wedding a week after we got back from CA. First time leaving M was hard, but it was good that I was a bridesmaid and busy the entire time. I didn't have many down moments to stop and worry about what was or wasn't going on back home. Dan sent regular happy updates which was nice. It was wonderful getting on a plane without having to worry about another little person. And I had a lot of fun celebrating with my friend.
-Marjorie slid off the bed for the first time the evening I got home from CO and on my watch, of course. I stepped away for a second and when I turned she was sliding feet first down the side. I dove to catch her but only made it worse because I nudged her in the other direction with resulted in her landing on her face on the wooden floor. She cried, I couldn't stop apologizing, and then she forgot it. Thank goodness they do.
And now pictures:
The end.
Marjorie:
-at her appointment she was 16 lbs and 1 oz
-started sitting up on her own a couple days after her 8 month mark. She now sits up by herself just fine and knows how to catch herself when she starts to topple over.
-can push herself up from laying down to sitting up. This is becoming a problem when she's goes down for nap time...
-wants desperately to crawl! She gets up all the time on her hands and knees and can kind of push herself backwards. Every once in a while I think she may do one little crawl forward, but then usually just lays out to reach whatever it was she was trying to get.
-to get around she does a lot of swiveling on the floor and then pushing herself into a seated position, then rotating some more and then laying down and rolling a bit until she gets to wherever she wants to go. It's entertaining.
-is laughing more and more. Sometimes she gets to watch Baby Einstein while I'm showering, and I can hear her laughing and giggling at it the whole time. We played chase the dog the other night and she was screeching with laughter. So fun!
-loves her kitty (binky with a kitty attached to it), her nesting cups, stacking rings, kitchen utensils, monkey from Uncle Connor, cell phone, ipad... any and all ity bity pieces of lint, food, plastic, hair, etc. on the carpets...
-eats three meals and a snack each day. She's starting to not like the purees as much, but she still doesn't have any teeth at all so I'm not sure what to feed her. I also have a hard time because I think of things, but they're messy and I don't want to have to clean her up and change her clothes after every single meal. Maybe I should just give in to the messiness that is having a baby. She does consistently love to eat puffs (of course), chicken, apples, cheerios, pirates booty, and sweet potatoes.
-we switched out gassy tummy problems for constipation problems. She gets a dollop of peaches, prunes, peas, or pears with every meal in the hopes of making things a bit easier for her. Sometimes it helps, sometimes not.
-drinks water through a straw cup. I'd read somewhere that straw cups are better for helping develop the facial muscles you need for language and it seemed easier to be able to ask for a cup with a straw when we're out and about rather than needing to carry my own sippy cup, so that's all I've offered her. This month she finally figured it out. She can definitely drink from a straw sippy, but usually if she's eating finger food rather than purees, she wants nothing to do with it which is a bit frustrating because of the tummy problems.
-sometimes uses "mamamamama" to mean me, and somtimes uses "dadadadadada" to mean Dan. But not consistently.
-loves watching Fitz play and especially loves watching him play catch. Fitz also loves to bring Marjorie a ball to throw for him, and loves bringing her his rawhides because he knows how much she loves chewing on them (I tell myself it's good for developing her immune system and reducing allergies. Le sigh).
Mom:
-traveled back to NYC alone with M and it went much smoother. The flight to Denver was fine, she was able to take a nap in her stroller during the layover, and there was an open seat next to me on the longer flight from Denver to NYC which was Ah-mazing!!!!! She was so much happier having her own seat. She played with her toys and watched Baby Einstein and was a happy little girl the whole way, which means mommy was a happy big girl the whole way.
-I went to CO for my friend's wedding a week after we got back from CA. First time leaving M was hard, but it was good that I was a bridesmaid and busy the entire time. I didn't have many down moments to stop and worry about what was or wasn't going on back home. Dan sent regular happy updates which was nice. It was wonderful getting on a plane without having to worry about another little person. And I had a lot of fun celebrating with my friend.
-Marjorie slid off the bed for the first time the evening I got home from CO and on my watch, of course. I stepped away for a second and when I turned she was sliding feet first down the side. I dove to catch her but only made it worse because I nudged her in the other direction with resulted in her landing on her face on the wooden floor. She cried, I couldn't stop apologizing, and then she forgot it. Thank goodness they do.
And now pictures:
And a couple of outtakes of her just yelling like she does.
