Milestones:
-Marie has started sitting up on her own, though she isn't very stable yet and can't hold the position for very long.
-A week after her surgery, we moved her into her own room, and we've been sleeping better for the most part as a result. The day she turned seven months, we transitioned her from the Rock 'n' Play to her crib, and it looks like she's going to be a tummy sleeper like her parents. And bonus! As a result of sleeping on her stomach, her hair gets way less tangly now.
-She slept through the night for three glorious nights in a row! She can usually go from about 9 in the evening to around 5 in the morning without eating, which is pretty fantastic. (What would be more fantastic is if she would stop waking up around 2, crying for a minute, and then going back to sleep, because then I sometimes can't fall asleep for an hour afterward.)
-We started solids but haven't been super consistent with giving them. She doesn't seem to ingest too much, but so far she's tasted avocado, oatmeal, sweet potato, carrots, peas, and applesauce.
-She's rolling all over the place these days! We have to be quick with diaper changes or she'll roll away before we're finished. Distracting her with a toy or a package of wipes helps keep her on her back sometimes.
-She'll push up on her hands and knees but hasn't made any real attempts at crawling yet.
-Marie visited her first pumpkin patch and attended her first ward Halloween party this month.
-Marie has started making few consonant sounds (like "ba" and "ma") instead of just vowel sounds. I'm holding out hope that her first word will be mama! She's getting more vocal, which has been pretty exciting.
Current likes:
Playing in her jumper (thanks Daniel and Carly!), playing with her keys, lifting her legs and slamming them against the ground while laying down, playing with crinkly things, looking at Daddy, listening to "I Love You a Bushel and a Peck", being bounced on our knees, getting rocket rides, splashing in the bath.
Current dislikes:
Getting the eye ointment put in her eye, falling asleep anywhere besides home (which makes church and outings super fun sometimes).
Other odds and ends:
-Her eye has been cycling through periods of looking great and then getting red and swollen again, so we took her back to the ophthalmologist on Friday, who said it's likely that the interior (?) stitch is irritated and inflamed, but she doesn't think it's infected. She prescribed some antibiotics which should hopefully help, but in the worst case scenario, they'll have to remove the stitch. Which sounds like more surgery. Fingers crossed it doesn't come to that!
-Marie still fits into some 3 month pants and pajamas and many 3-6 month outfits, though we may box up some of the smaller onesies soon.
-We bought Kirkland brand diapers at Costco since there was a coupon, but she got a diaper rash shortly thereafter. I'm not sure if it's correlational at all, but it's the worst one she's had so I don't know if we'll buy that brand again. She's still in size 3 -- I put her in a 4 at night once and she soaked right through it because it was too big, I think.
-We haven't really been doing the baby food thing, so we've been steaming vegetables or giving her chunks of soft fruit to gnaw at mostly. When she has a steamed carrot, she'll start sucking on it like its a pacifier and it's basically the most adorable thing I've ever seen.
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| At our ward Halloween party. You can't see her wings very well, but she's a parrot. |
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| Trying out avocado for the first time. |
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| We call this her watermelon outfit. |
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| She loves her jumper! |
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| She seems thoroughly unconcerned by the creepy thing behind her. |
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| Instilling a love for pumpkin patches early on in life. |
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| Happy girl! |
