The usual stuff

Not a whole lot new to report. It appears that carrots have no adverse reactions so we will move on to peas tonight. It didn't take long for the poopoos to get solid, but it doesn't seem to be so bad as many had warned me it would be...it's just baby poop. Although it is exciting when she wasn't quite done and you thought she was and you change her diaper and you practically have to catch it. Talk about playdough factory. LOL. I didn't think she couldn't get any closer to rolling without actually rolling over but apparently that's possible. She is really on that edge of doing it. I've sorted through her clothes again so it looks like we have plenty of the 6-9 month sizes, it'll probably last us awhile before we need to upgrade. :) Maybe early to mid-December if I had to guess. It was kind of funny though because a lot of the clothes I might not be able to use do to the warm weather weight of the item. I probably won't be dressing her in sleeveless onesies for awhile. But I understand...you go shopping find something cute and didn't think if Holly would be able to wear it for that particular season and go ahead and get it. It can be difficult to gauge sometimes.

Holly's New Food

Holly's tried carrots for the first time last night. It was kind of funny. She's closes one eye, makes a yucky face, and shudders...but she still eats it. We're thinking it's because it's the first time anything has had any taste, the rice cereal kind of smelled like elmer's glue so I'm not convinced that it's tasty. Holly did eat way more of the carrots than the rice cereal, so maybe she does like it...it's just new. We'll give her more carrots tonight. We've been much more on the whole tummy time thing and Holiday has been making improvement. It's just that she cries so loud and hard that we cave and pick her up. So we've been letting her cry a little bit. It's when she seems her angriest that she looks like she's trying to crawl or turn over or anything that isn't laying on her tummy because she hates it. Seriously...she hates it. There's the suggestion of putting some sort of cushion under her but she hates that more. We'll just have to let her have her cry sessions till she figures it out. I hoping that won't take too long.

Holly pictures

Sleepy little baby holding pink baby.

Monkey jams and mommy.


Repeat (I'm going to miss those jams)

Daddy and Holly with toys.

Here's Holiday in a high chair.

Holiday is practicing sitting up.

6 month check up

So Holly's all caught up on her shots. She definitely remembered that she hates shots. But this time she cried while she was getting weighed too. I think it's the nurse, Edna. She gave Holly her shots yesterday and two months ago and weighed her yesterday. Poor Edna, I actually really like her. Holiday is 25.5" long and weighs 16 lbs 12 oz, so 50th percentile in height and 67th percentile in weight so Holly's doing great. We started her on solid food last night, just rice cereal. That's going to take practice but she actually did really well. David and I got our flu shots yesterday too. It feels like someone punched me in the arm. :) All for the greater good.

Holiday is 6 months old today

So her next check up is on Tuesday. This time I'll ask the nurse to set up her shots where Holly can't see her and bring them over once they are all ready to go. At the 4th month check up Holly remembered and started scream-crying before the shots even got started. Holiday got her second tooth yesterday so she's got both of the lower front teeth. Now she's appreciating her teething toys more. David's been teaching her how to pet the kitty. She doesn't understand 'gentle' yet. All she sees is KITTY and wants to grab a hold of fur. It's a good thing that the cat likes it rough...good Vader kitty. We went and had 6 month pictures done on Wednesday with Holly dressed in her halloween costume. They'll be back in two weeks. She picked out her costume, we held up three outfits and she laughed at the bumblebee so we had a winner. The pictures turned out really cute...you can see the stinger even. :)

Raspberry Contest and other stuff

Here's a link to Holly and my raspberry contest...good stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhAy9BTyAWA

Man...the last two times we gave Holly a bath she's splashed all over the place. Not like angry splashing, but as if she was on a mission kind of splashing. We'll have to do a video next time, she's pretty intense about it. But next time her baby bath tub won't be on the dining room table for mommy and daddy's ease. We'll put her baby bath tub inside the regular tub...attempt at containing the splashing.

Holly's speaking babinese now, she's making all sorts of little noises. She's been making a lot of funny faces with that new tooth in there now. We can tell she's running over it with her tongue too.

Holly Pictures

Holly on her blankie...

...and all of her toys.

Totally Sweet (but of course)

Daddy's little SeaGal.

Killer cute sock monkey onesie from Grandma Linda.

So cute that it warrants another picture. (That's Holly's thinking face).

We're grabbing toes in the playpen.

Can't get enough of those toes.

Holly's got her first tooth!

I just felt it an hour ago...explains a lot of the fussiness. It takes some doing to get her to open her mouth without sticking out her tongue so you can see it. It's one of her lower front ones and it's just broke through the gums. It's a good thing Daddy put together her highchair last night, she'll be trying out those chompers pretty soon. Holly's gotten chunkier too, but not too chunky. So she's on pace for the 50th percentile. Her hair is growing in thicker and blonder and so's her eyelashes. She's a lot more interested in her toys than she used to be. Basically everything's on track for her 6 month mark coming up.

Holly's New Toys

Holly's really liking her new toys. We got her a sorting shape box that makes sounds when touched, a ball made of thick sturdy wall with fat beads to move around on (kind of like in the dentist's waiting room) and a regular ball. She likes to smack things and throw them around now. When we put Holiday in her playpen she grabs her feet and rolls side to side but not all the way over yet. She's officially done with breast milk, we've used up all the extra in the freezer. So now I'm collecting all my breast feeding gear and putting it in storage. It's sooooooo much easier to bottle feed than to breast feed. It's getting easier to figure out why she cries now, like if she's rubbing her eyes she needs a nap. Holly and I have been taking more walks now on my off work days. She really likes that and then when we come home she'll take a bottle and sleep for an hour.