Seven Month Update

Seven months old on 3/22/13

The time keeps on flying by!  Last Friday I turned 7 months old!  I got to spend the evening with Aunt Hilary while Mommy and Daddy went out with some of their friends for something called March Madness...  I think it has something to do with basketball and a big red and blue bird. :)  Guess I'll learn more about it when I'm older!

Seven Month Stats

Weight: 19 lbs 12 oz (almost 20 lbs already!)

Hair color: Medium brown (less dark)

Eye color: ?  Greenish-greyish-brownish... I guess they haven't decided yet!

Clothes size: 6-9/6-12 mos

Diaper size: 3

Seven Month Habits

Eating: I LOVE eating solid food!  I now usually have 4 feedings/bottles of breastmilk per day about every 4 hours of 6-8oz each, and then I also eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner.  For breakfast I have pureed fruit and oatmeal cereal, for lunch pureed veggies and sometimes cereal, and for dinner pureed meat/veggies and pureed prunes (They help me poop!  I know, TMI!).  I've also started eating a few Cheerios and Puffs using my hands, but it's hard work picking them up and getting them in my mouth!  I prefer it when Mommy or Daddy just put the spoon in my mouth.  :)  My favorite foods are sweet potatoes with pork and apples, prunes, and pear/apple sauce with cinnamon.

Sleeping:  I go to bed at about 7-7:15 and usually still sleep through the night until about 6am, unless I'm sick like I have been the last few days.  :(  I take 2 naps a day, one in the morning around 9am and another in the early afternoon around 1pm.  I still usually nap longer at home (1-2 hours each) than at day care (45 min - 1 hour each most days).

Play/skills:  I've gotten super attached to my "lovey" blankets.  My monkey lovey is my favorite.  I still love to put absolutely everything in my mouth.  I've gotten really good at rolling over and pivoting around on my tummy.  I can sit up pretty well by myself now when I want to, but sometimes I don't feel like it and I just lean over.  Mommy lets me practice sitting up with my back to the couch and pillows beside me so that way if I decide to fall over, I land on soft pillows.  It's pretty fun, actually!  I like to sit there while I watch my Baby Signing Time video or play with my music table that Aunt Hilary gave me.  I still like to talk a lot, and I still love reading books with Mommy and Daddy.  I like to try to grab the pages of the books by myself now.  Maybe I'll be reading someday soon.  :)

Video of the Month

Check out this video of me eating my first Cheerios!  I'm still not sure what to think about them...

Other Favorite Pics

Daddy time in the Bjorn at the supermarket

Irish girl on St. Patty's Day 

I got this with one hand

Reading all by myself

Sitting up!

Playing with Mommy's phone

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Happy St. Patty's Day!

Today I celebrated my first St. Patrick's Day!  My Hussey family is Irish, so it's a very big holiday for us!  There's a big parade in Savannah where my GiGi and Daideo live, but we didn't get to go this year.  Hopefully next year!

Instead, I went to a birthday brunch with Mommy, Aunt Hilary, Nana, and Great Grandma Barb to celebrate February and March birthdays.  Great Grandma Barb's birthday is at the end of February, and then Mommy's and Nana's are both in March.  We went to a place called Mimi's Cafe.  It was fun hanging out with the girls (minus Aunt Merf).  I had a great time trying to grab everything off the table! :)

Ready for my lunch.  Can I eat my sock?

Hanging out with Aunt Hilary

Posing with the Killion/Turner/Hussey clan women

Then, I went home and took a nap, and after that we had a family birthday dinner for Mommy's birthday which was last Thursday.  I got the stomach flu on Mommy's birthday (so yucky!), so we pretended it was her birthday today instead!  I got to play with Nana and Aunt Hilary again, and this time Papa T and Uncle Jake came, too.  It was really fun, but by bed time I was super tired!

Can't wait to walk in the parade next year with Daddy in Savannah!  This year we're going to Savannah for Easter instead, which is in 2 weeks.  I'm super excited!

Six Month Update

Six months old on 2/22/13

Last Friday I turned 6 months old!  Half a year already, and Mommy and Daddy can hardly believe it!  I got to stay home from day care for the day because there was a crazy snow storm Thursday and Friday, and then it turns out I got to stay home with Mommy and Daddy again today because there's another snow storm!  I've been looking out the window and watching my neighbors play in it, and it looks like fun!  Maybe next year I'll get to go out and play in it, too.

Six Month Stats
Weight: 18 lbs 2 oz (88th percentile)
Height: 26.75 in (85th percentile)
Head circumference: 17.75 in
Clothes size: 6-9 mos
Diaper size: 3 fits better, but Mommy and Daddy are using up my last box of 2's!

 

Six Month Habits
Eating: Nursing once at 7am, then 6-8 oz bottles of pumped breastmilk every 4 hours at around 11am, 3pm, and 6:30pm before bed.  Breakfast of fruit and/or oatmeal cereal around 8am, lunch of veggies or fruit around noon, and dinner around 5:30 or 6pm.  I just started eating some meat the last couple of days, and it's definitely not my favorite yet.  I love most fruits I've tried, but I think my favorite is pear and apple sauce.  Mommy puts a little cinnamon in it, and it's delicious!

Sleeping: Sleeping through the night pretty much every night now from 6:30-7pm until 6:30-7am.
Napping - 1-2 hour nap around 9am, and then either another 2 hour nap at 1 or a shorter nap at 1 and then a third nap around 4-4:30pm.  I won't take a third nap at day care though, so if I take a short afternoon nap there, then I usually fall asleep in the car on the way home for 20 minutes or so.  One day a couple of weeks ago, I didn't take an afternoon nap at day care at all, so when Mommy picked me up at 5:30pm I had been awake since 10:45am!  I fell asleep in the car and Mommy moved me to my crib when we go home, and I slept all the way until the next morning!

Play/skills: I love to suck my thumb and chew on my lovey blankets, which are little blankets with an animal on them.  I have a monkey and a frog.  I also love to grab and chew on pretty much anything.  If I can reach it, it's mine!  That includes Daddy's nose and Mommy's hair and jewelry!  I can sit up almost by myself, but somebody has to stay pretty close by in case I start to tip over.  I also started rolling from my tummy to my back again, but sometimes I don't feel like doing it and I'll just cry until someone comes to help me.  :)  After practicing with Mommy for a while, I rolled from my back to my tummy once for the first time today!  It was super hard work, so we'll see if I try it again soon or not!  I still love to talk and have started making new sounds.  My favorite right now is "b."  I still love books, too, and my favorites right now are Global Babies, Baby Colors, and Baby Giggles cause they have pictures of other babies that are so funny to look at!  Last week Mommy and Daddy got me my first movie, too.  It's called Baby Signing Time, and it's soooo much fun!  It teaches babies about how to use sign language to say things like more, Mommy, Daddy, and milk.  There are little kids on it who are so silly, and I love it!  I've watched every day since we got it (thanks to being stuck in the house with all the snow!).

Video of the Month
Check out this video of me talking to my friend, Caleb!  Sorry it's kind of blurry...

Other Favorite Pics

Taking a break during tummy time

Beak em' hawks!

Holding my sippy cup all by myself!

Practicing sitting up

Hangin out on the couch 

Working on my blog with Mommy!

Baby Lab

Super excited for my first day ever at school, Rockhurst University!

So Mommy is a pediatric physical therapist, which basically means she gets paid to play with kids all day (I don't understand why I can't just come play, too!).  One of the girls that used to work at Children's Mercy, too, now teaches PT students about pediatrics at Rockhurst, and today they had baby lab!  My boyfriend (or as Daddy likes to call him: my friend who's a boy... ;)) Caleb and I got to go and be practice babies for the students to play with and learn from.  It was super fun!

Tummy time on the ball - I do this at home with Mommy, so I knew just what to do!

Showing off my sitting skills

Trying to figure out how to get that toy

The students in my group were all very nice, and I had lots of fun playing with them (One of them was a K-State fan, so she didn't love my outfit, but I had to sport my Rock Chalk gear for KU v KSU game day!).  They said that I looked like a pretty normal 5-month-old baby, so I guess that's pretty good!

Tuckered out and ready to go home for a nap

Ready for more play time with Caleb after our afternoon nap!

Big Kid Food

Excited for dinner time! 

Now that I'm 5 months old, I get to start eating some solid food!  Well, solid food all mixed up in a blender until it's super smooth anyway.  But I got my first tooth just the other day, so soon I'll be ready to chew on the real stuff!  So far I've tried carrots, peas, green beans, squash, sweet potatoes, zucchini, and bananas.  I like them all, but I think sweet potatoes and bananas are probably my favorites!  As always, here are some silly pictures Mommy and Daddy took:

I cleaned my bowl like a good girl!

Butternut squash is delicious!

I wanna do it all by myself!

Five Month Update

Five months old on 1/22/13

It's a new year, and last week I turned 5 months old!  Almost half a year already, and Mommy says it's flown by!  It was a Tuesday, so I spent most of the day at day care, then hung out with Mommy and Daddy at home.

Four Month Stats
Weight: 16lbs 4 oz
Clothes size: 3-6 months
Diaper size: 2

Five Month Habits
Eating:  4 or 5, 5-6oz bottles of breastmilk (or breastfeeding when Mommy's home!) per day, about every 3-4 hours.  I just started eating some veggies this week since I turned 5 months, too, and so far I like them all!  I eat oatmeal cereal around 8am and veggies and/or rice cereal around 5:30.

Sleeping:  For the last 3 nights, I've been sleeping through the night from 6:30 or 7pm until about 6:30am!!!  Mommy and Daddy are really hoping it sticks!
Naps - I usually take a pretty good nap in the morning for 1-2 hours around 9am.  Then in the afternoon I take another nap around 12:30 or 1.  Some days it's another 1-2 hours, and other days it's only 30-40 min.  On those days, I take a late afternoon nap around 3:30 or 4, too.  At least, that's how I usually nap at home.  At day care, who knows!  I like to do something different every day!

Play/skills:  I've gotten really good at reaching out and grabbing things, and I like to put everything in my mouth.  Lately I've been practicing reaching out and picking up toys when I'm on my tummy, too, but it's hard work!  I still haven't quite figured out how to roll over yet.  Mommy says that I used to know how to roll from my tummy to my back, but I guess I forgot!  I'm still trying to roll from my back to my tummy, but I get about 2/3rds of the way there, and then I flop back over.  It makes me spin around in circles on my back on the floor, which is kind of fun!  I can sit up with a little bit of help.  I LOVE to talk.  I will squeal and coo and make all kinds of sounds!  I still love reading books, and my favorite right now is Pete the Cat: I Love my White Shoes.  My favorite toy is my piano play gym that Nana and Papa got me for Christmas!

Video of the Month
Check out this video of me in my swing for the first time yesterday!

Other Favorite Pics

Snoozing in the sun in my car seat

Sitting up with the Boppy all by myself!

Cheering on the hawks! 

Playing in the exer saucer

Super excited at day care drop-off

Ready for some chow!