Weekend update

Our 4th of July will be covered in Fun Monday tomorrow, but just wanted to let you know how things are going otherwise. Here’s an update not of just the weekend, but of new accomplishments on the home front.

• Keeley waves ‘hi’ to the baby in the mirror and more recently, to real people instead of our reflections as well.
• We had to move her jumperoo up to the second level so she’s on her toes to bounce again, instead of flat footed, that’s how much taller she’s gotten.
• Crawling, well, ALMOST. That is, on knees, flopping forward, then squishing ourselves back up by pulling with our arms. We’re 3/4 of the way there. She can also do a ‘plank’ with just her hands in push up position and her toes on the floor. One of the girls I knew from high school was saying how she got down and showed her baby how to crawl. I thought she was nuts, my baby was learning fast enough for me as it was! Her baby is younger by a couple of weeks and already standing up in the crib, too. Not sure I’m ready for that.
• Sippy cup, check. Today, we even picked it up, took 3 swallows (as on the 4th she typically spits, so that’s been the pattern) and set it back down.  Yeah! She did this several times today, no help from either of us.
• We added in breakfast the day before she turned 8 months. Mostly it’s baby rice cereal.
• So far what we’ve eaten is: banana, sweet potato, rice cereal with a liberal amount of cinnamon, peach, nectarine, apricot, mum mum cracker.
• We have tasted/sucked on: pepperoni, green olive, dill pickle, lemon, mashed potato, meatloaf. Grilled chicken was completely ignored.
• Today we had a late breakfast (she slept til 830 after our late night), including those gerber puff thingys in peach, a mum mum cracker, and a taste of applesauce, no sugar added. The applesauce lasted for a while and then she turned away. We were surprised at the gerber things, I had a coupon so I used it, we bought the mum things because they were for all ages of babies versus just a ‘crawler’, we figured if she couldn’t handle those puffs at almost crawling that we’d sweep her mouth out and try again later. Well, they were easier on her than the mums were. For those of you that don’t know, they’re kind of like star shaped cereal a little bigger than a cheerio and a little easier to soften in your mouth, she still had to ‘chew’ them, though, so it was good practice.
• Ma, da, ga, ba, nigh, aye, wah are her sounds. She indicates more to eat by banging on the high chair. We are trying to teach her drink, more, and thank you as signs. You know, the important things.
• She also responds to ‘are you hungry, are you ready to eat’ with an affirmation of hands flailing, a big bounce, and a giggle. Repeat giggle and bounce for asking about taking a nap when she really is tired.

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