Week Twenty Eight

Age today: 28 weeks

Age Being Posted: Weeks 27-28

Date: June 30 - July 6

Diaper Size: 2 or Medium

Clothing Size: 3, 3-6, 6

Size:
Weight: 12 lbs 12oz
Height: 64 cm
Head C.: 41.5 cm

Photo of the Week: 4th of July!

Milestones: Nothing new this week. Check milestones page to see what we've passed and whats coming up!

Development: You are too smart to crawl. No, honestly. I put you on a blanket (which is a necessity here because penny cat leaves hair ALL OVER) and put some toys in front of you just out of reach and what do you do? Pull on the blanket pulling the toys to you rather than you going to them. Oh, Em.

Concerns: Weight gain : (

Eating Habits: Breastmilk every 2-3 hours, rice cereal, fruit, veggies, and/or meat 4 times a day (see below)

Foods Tried: Gerber chicken and veggies, apple, banana, chicken

Sleeping Habits: Sleeping through the night has continued! 7-6/630 which is quite amazing. Naps are good for the most part or perhaps I just don't care quite as much since you sleep at night. But its usually about 3 hours a day. We try to keep to the 2-3-4 schedule but if you're tired and naps haven't been that long then we have a third nap.. unless its after 4!

Health: Healthy

Special Moments-
Best: I'm gonna be a bad mom for a second and say the freedom to have gone to the mall without you : )
Worst: a thought to be allergic reaction. You had a sort of rash after eating a Gerber chicken and we thought you were allergic but we gave it to you the next 3 days and no rash again. It was on your stomach by your diaper maybe heat rash?

This Weeks Doctor Appointment: Good things first. She's amazed you are sitting up and sleeping 11 hours at night. She actually asked me how did you do it?! Which I have no idea. But hurray for us. She says she is sure that you are going to be an early crawler. No teeth are coming in, according to her, which is a good thing... I think. They say its better the later they come in but who knows. You know how things are when "they say" is thrown around. She gave us some stimulation ideas for early crawling and said she usually gives it for 7-8 months but since you'd already passed everything a 6 month old should be doing that was all she could offer. Yay you! Now for the not so good. You are still not gaining weight like she (and I) thinks you should. She says if you don't gain at least 600 grams by august 20 (we are going to the beach at the beginning of the month and then she is going so that is the first we could get you in) that we would have to add some sort of supplement to your food. She said that formula wasn't necessary so yay!... Lets hope it's not. But she sent you to eat 5 times a day and continue to nurse as much as you are now so basically this week all we've done is eat eat eat. So you better gain weight child! We also had to stop your iron supplement because it was making you puke up all over... so maybe that has something to do with it as well? Who knows.

Other Observations/Activities: It is so much harder unpacking a house and sorting through everything with a baby than it is while pregnant. I may have been exhausted while pregnant but I did have all the time in the world. Now its not quite like that. You require demand attention all the time. Sometimes because you want it, others cause you need it, and more often because I need to. Just when you're playing so well by yourself and begin squealing about a toy I have to sit down and play with you. Bad I know buuuut oh well. So in short unpacking which took me two days flat last time is still underway now after a week. We also had our first 4th of July which passed by without too much fuss because we do not, in fact, live in the US and no one here cares about it. So it wasn't much of anything... maybe next year!

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Week Twenty Seven

Age today: 27 weeks

Age Being Posted: Weeks 26-27

Date: June 23- 29

Diaper Size: 2 or Medium

Clothing Size: 3, 3-6, 6

Photo of the Week: So much alike!

Milestones: Nothing new this week

Development: I swear you're going to crawl soon... like next couple weeks soon. You sort of do this army type crawl already. I can't believe how big you are an how much you can already do!

Concerns: Still weight!

Eating Habits: Breastmilk every 3 hours, rice cereal or veggies twice a day at 10am and 5pm

Foods Tried: Avocado, banana, zucchini

Sleeping Habits: All weeks you slept through the night except last night. You were up from 130-4. Oh. NEVER letting you nap past 4 AGAIN. Were down to 2 naps at 9 and 1. Usually 1-2 hours each.

Health: Healthy

Special Moments-
Best: Moving to new house
Worst: scarring mom and not pooping for 4 days!

Other Observations/Activities:</strong This week was eventful! We spent the whole week packing and on Saturday began moving boxes and cleaning. We'll see how you handle so much change this coming week. As mentioned above you are sleeping though the night again which has been wonderful! I think its the nap schedule we've been doing. It seems to work wonders.

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Week Twenty Six (6 Months)

Age today: 26 weeks and exactly 6 months!

Age Being Posted: Weeks 25-26

Date: June 16 - 22

Diaper Size: 2 or Medium

Clothing Size: 3, 3-6, 6

Photo of the Week: Looking So Grown Up!

Milestones: Nothing new this week but check out the milestones page for those already passed


Development: Every time I look at you I can't help but think how grown up you are getting. It seems like you are less of a baby and more of a toddler. I love it but at the same time it's sad. I'm going to miss the baby days! But everyday that passes you learn a little more and get a little more active and vocal about what you like and what you don't like. I'm learning to love every moment because you sure keep mom on her toes!


Concerns:I'm just worried that when we go to the doctor you won't have gained as much weight as she wants you too or how much you SHOULD. I feel like your growing and passing milestones... but I'm so worried about it


Eating Habits: Breastmilk every 3 hours, rice cereal or veggies twice a day at 10am and 5pm

Sleeping Habits:Great night sleep and great naps... pretty soon I'm going to stop feeding you at night at all but I'm waiting to see your weight gain this week


Health: Healthy

Special Moments-
Best: We were in such a hurry to go to Calacali so we put you in your pack n play so we could finish backing and both dadas and I were SO surprised when you just chatted away in there, screaming happily as we passed by running to get everything ready. It was so cute and so helpful!
Worst: In Calacali we didn't take the pack and play and just had you sleep between us. AWFUL idea. You woke up every 45 minutes wanting to play. NEVER again.

Other Observations/Activities: Well you celebrated you first official fathers day! You didn't give your dadas such a great one when you woke up 10 times at night and then were awake for the day at 530. Other than that it was really nice. We spent the week packing because we're moving at the end of the month. We've been playing and you spend a lot of your day just sitting up. I never let you on the floor because we have tile and when you want a toy out of reach you have no problem just throwing yourself to it so I only sit you up when I'm sitting there with you just in case. We went to Calacali and I'm certain (not that I doubted it before) you just don't like people. You get really mad when there are too many, even if they aren't paying attention to you. You just like to be with a few and better if you know them. But more than 2 or 3 forget it!


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Week Twenty Four

Age today: 24 weeks or 161 days

Age Being Posted: Weeks 23-24 or Days 161-167

Date: June 2 - 8

Diaper Size: 2 or Medium

Clothing Size: 3, 3-6, 6

Size:
Weight: 12 lbs 2 oz
Height: 63.5 cm
Head C.: 41 cm

Photo of the Week: Here she looks exactly like her cousin Vincent

 

Milestones:

Development: You are vocal and let everyone know what you like and most definitely what you don't. You get angry at your toys when they don't do exactly what you want them to. You roll over from your back your tummy ALL THE TIME now. You know how to roll back bit don't do it very often. Maybe its harder? This has seeped into nap times and you wake yourself up doing it. On tor stomach you lift your butt in the air but can't figure out how to actually moveand this makes you furious

Concerns: Your weight gain is slow now and you've dropped percentiles. The doctor said she'd hoped you would gain more but we shouldn't worry.

Eating Habits: Breastmilk every 3 hours, rice cereal once a day at 10am

Sleeping Habits: Well you are still waking up at least once a night. Sometimes twice. I know your hungry so I feed you. Naps are better some days. Sometimes they are worse than the used to be. I think you still NEED a 3rd nap but you refuse to take one so I'm trying to see if 2-3-4 nap routine will work for you.

Health: Healthy

Special Moments-
Best: You cuddled with me in the morning. Dad brought you into me as he was getting ready for work and you just laid there with me in the nook of my arm.
Worst: You fell out of your swing!

This Weeks Doctor Visit: We went to your 5 month checkup this month. Things were the same as always. She asked about your routine and milestones you should have passed. Everything was normal. She was still amazed at all you could do. She measured your length and head and weight. I was very disappointed in the weighing and also now very concerned. She told us it might just be her actual percentile since she had gone up quite a few from birth. She sent us to start solid food. 3 times a day but I think it's too much so next week I'll start 2 but I won't do 3 until shes around 7 months. At least. We then got a vaccine since we split them up so you wouldn't have all them at the same time. And of course you cried : (

Other Observations/Activities:  This week we continued our house hunt. We found two that we like for opposite reasons. One the house was huge and amazing but in an awful neighborhood. The other one was a okay house in an okay neighborhood. So we picked that one. We can go anytime between the 15-30. So well get packed up and move!

You also fell out of your swing! I turned away to rinse of some dishes and you started crying (not even hard) and I told you to hold on one second but when I turned you were on the floor! It was so awful!

You also went to the doctor this week, as mentioned above. The vaccine didn't cause much of a fever this time! Your leg hurt a lot but besides that everything was just fine.

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25 Things To Do With A 5 Month Old

Everyday I get up with Em at about 6:50 am. She is probably awake around 6:30 but my legs won't budge until closer to 7 and she usually talks to herself for awhile so I take that time to get a few more minutes of rest.

As I shuffle across the hall I think about the day ahead of me wondering what we'll do.

Its not always the easiest thing to figure out because the little ones get bored so easily but here are a few things we usually do during the day...

1. Tummy time: Em loves being on her tummy now. She rolls over almost instantly when I put her down.

2. Talking: This is usually something we do when I'm busy doing something else. I sit her somewhere and we jabber back and forth. But we do this almost always, whether one on one or from a far.

3. Play in the Grass: Em loves feeling it ob her toes and in her hands and sometimes in her mouth!

4. Walk Outside: She loves being outside in general. I'll take her for a quick walk in neither the strolled or wrap but holding her and point out things like trees and the sky. If we walk in the sun I'll tell her that's why its warm, if the wind blows I let her know. She's very alert outside like she's soaking in everything.

5. Dancing in the Kitchen: When she's in a bad mood this usually cheers her up. I pick her up and we twirl around the room for awhile listening to (moms) favorite songs.

6. Singing: I have a terrible voice but she doesn't seem to mind much. I sing everything. What's on the radio. Children songs like the itsy bitsy spider or wheels on the bus. Or something I've made up.

7. Airplane: we do takeoff and landing. Sometimes even crash landing!

8. Peek-a-boo: She just started to really enjoy this.

9. Piggies: You know "this little piggy went to market..."

10. Mirror Talk: She adores the baby in the mirror. She tries to grab her and hug her but always ends up bumping her head. Go figure!

11. I got you!: I usually do this after I clean a dirty diaper before I button her onesie and before/after a bath. I say i got you and blow raspberries on her tummy. She cracks up every time.

12. Play the Guitar: I try to show her some of the cords for fun but most of the time we end up just fooling around and beating on it like a drum.

13. Yarn: I give her yarn to run through her hands. Don't ask why but she gets so excited about it.

14. Reading: This we do before bedtime and naps! She has one book she adores called shoe-la-la

15. Face/hand exploration: I get really close to her and let her play with my ears nose cheeks etc. Or I give her my hand and she checks it out and stuffs it in her mouth.

16. Kitty: She loves penny our cat. She gets so excited with her just walking past her. If penny agrees I let Em pet her making sure she doesn't grab and pull.

17. Chores: This activity usually depends on the chore. When I make my bed I cover her up in blankets. While I'm doing laundry I pass her some clothes and tell her to fold them. She usually ends up sticking them in her mouth instead. When doing dishes I name off the items I'm washing while she sits in her swing. It usually takes longer than it would without her but that way during naps I get to write instead of clean. Plus she enjoys it!

18. Snuggle time: This only happens after she eats. She's already in my lap and in a good mood so we cuddle for a few minutes (sometimes only seconds, others as much as 10 min) until she's done and wants to play.

19. Sink time: I turn on the faucet and hold her as she plays in the water.

20. Making a racket: I give her toys (or plastic kitchenware) and let her bang them together. To be honest I'm usually the one who bangs them. She mostly mouths them.

21. Picture Time: I live about 3000 miles away from my family so I show her pictures of her aunts and uncles, grandparents, cousins so she know who they are.

22. Mimics: I try to mimic her sounds and facial expressions.

23. Cook Together: When she's in the mood I'll set her up in her swing or car seat and we chatter while I cook. I let her see what ingredients im using. I let her feel the fruit or the veggies. I show her the meats and the utensils I'm using. If however she's in a bad mood I'll put her in the carrier except for when I need to be by the stove.

24. Bouncing/walking: She pulls up to a standing and tries to walk around my lap or bounces up and down. She loves to be in motion!

25. Alone time (supervised): Some time playing by herself is also needed. I get a few things done I can't do with her and she rolls around on the floor talking to her stuffed animals or bitting on her toys or playing with her toes.

What do you and your LOs do??

Week Twenty Three

Age today: 22 weeks or 161 days

Age Being Posted: Weeks 22-23 or Days 154-160

Date: May 26- June 1

Diaper Size: 2 or Medium

Clothing Size: 3 months and 3-6 months, First time wearing 6 months!

Photo of the Week: Solid Food!

Milestones: Nothing new this week. See milestone page. (or does eating solid food count as a milestone? hmmm...)

Development: You're growing so much. You hold on to me now and continue to talk and razz. You flip over constantly and try very hard to get your stomach muscles to work so you can sit but you still need my hands to pull you up. You sit in your highchair without any problems. You sit very well supported but still can't do it alone for very long. A few seconds and you topple over.

Concerns: I'm worried you aren't gaining weight like you should...

Eating Habits: 3-31/2 hours, on Saturday (yesterday) you tried you very first bite of rice cereal!

Sleeping Habits: Basically 7-3 or 4, then 6 or 7. 3 naps ranging in length usually between 45-1.15 but one day you did take a 2 hour nap. It was crazy!

Health: Great

Special Moments-
Best: Two hour nap!
Worst: I put the activity center on the floor and you banged your head because there was no blanket underneath!

Other Observations/Activities:  This week we have started the search for a new house once again. Our landlord wants to raise the rent and it's not worth what she's asking for so we're leaving. We've seen two places so far. Both bigger than where we arr now and the rent is the same or lower. So we'll see. We've started packing too. Last year we did it all it two nights but now that we have you that's not possible.  On Saturday you ate solid food for the first time! And loved it! Dadas was so afraid of giving it to you but it was a hit!

Pictures From This Week: Sorry there are so many but I couldn't choose!




I love the last one. It's like  "but... where did the food go?"

Week Twenty Two (5 Months)

Age today: 22 weeks or 154 days

Age Being Posted: Weeks 21-22 or Days 147-153

Date: May 19 - 25

Diaper Size: 2 or Medium

Clothing Size: 3 months and 3-6 months

Photo of the Week: With Mom!

Milestones: Nothing new this week. Check out milestones page to see list of milestones passed.

Development: She seems so grown up now. Anytime she's on her back she tries to sit up. She is working really hard to pass that milestone!

Concerns: She's still wearing the same size and I'm worried she isn't gaining weight like she should...

Eating Habits: 3-31/2 hours only breastmilk

Sleeping Habits: Two nights you woke up twice to eat another you slept through and the rest your regular one time. Naps are much better too

Health: Great

Special Moments-
Best: Going to latagunga with you! You even took naps
Worst: Can't think of anything really

Other Observations/Activities:  This week you turned 5 months and I had my 24th birthday. Also on Friday dad was able to work from home. That was fun because he was done by noon! That night we decided to go to Latagunga so we left really early Saturday morning and spent almost all day outside! You had lots of fun with the cows and watching the dogs. But by 530 you were soooo tired. And there was a party close by with fireworks but you slept right through them!

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