Archive for November, 2008

Just when I thought I’d cleaned up every bodily fluid mess…

Thursday, November 13th, 2008 by Jen

This morning, Mio threw up his cat food… onto Ezzy. No there is no picture. I had to chase Ezzy down to clean the mess off of her as she spread it around the house.

Ok this doesn’t compete with other people’s kid’s who have spread their poop all over their crib and selves, but I haven’t had to deal with that yet.

O’ how I love thee

Thursday, November 13th, 2008 by Jen

Engineer in training?

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 by Jen

Lately Josie has had a penchant for turning her toys over and examining the underside and all wheels on vehicles. Perhaps we’re raising an engineer!

Josie investigating the dog\'s underside

Comfy sleepy girl

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 by Jen

Josie relaxing in the carrier

Baby carriers (tercera parte)

Monday, November 10th, 2008 by Jen

I have now checked out just about every single one of the baby carriers from the Boston Babywearers lending library. We found a bunch that we liked, often in different situations. I finally bit the bullet and bought one carrier that will work from newborn to toddler and can be worn on the front or back and easily fits me and Jordi. It is a Mei Tai (may-tie) by BabyHawk. The inside is supersoft cuddly fabric and Josie is really enjoying it as it supports her head enough but can also fold down to give her a good view of everything around her. I can get her on my back with help now, and with practice I’ll be able to put her on my back myself which will make carrying her much easier as she gets bigger.

Josie in the new carrier

Just the facts: almost 6.5 months

Monday, November 10th, 2008 by Jen

Josie went to the doc today and we got her official statistics. She’s growing like crazy and is 27 inches tall which makes her in the 85th percentile, and her weight of 15 lbs 2 oz puts her in the 25th percentile for weight. She’s just too busy these days to eat half the time!

Exercising in your sleep (and other times)

Sunday, November 9th, 2008 by Jen

Josie has been working like crazy on her physical strength and agility. She can stand for upwards of 10 seconds as well as take a couple of steps on her own. She has now also begun to pull herself up from a complete sit all the way to her feet using the assistance of such objects as the bathtub or the 20 lb bin of cat food. When she’s in bed now she’ll often roll over to her stomach and alternate from pushing up on her arms, to sticking her bum in the air on her knees. Clearly this is a precursor to pushing up on both her hands and knees. Maybe she will learn to crawl one day after all! She finds it hillarious when I demonstrate crawling for her, so perhaps she assumes it will be fun. It will certainly be fun for me to not have to move her closer to whatever she wants all the time. We had better get working on installing the baby gates on the kitchen to keep her from eating the cat food.

Adventures in eating: banana

Saturday, November 8th, 2008 by Jen

Today Josie tried some banana. She was raring to eat and grabbed the banana before we even got the tray all the way on her high chair. Again she picked it up no problem and put it in her mouth and made a big face of ‘ewww what did you just give me?’ that she seems to make the first time with all new foods. She was very eager with the banana, probably a little too eager, as she managed to make herself gag and choke on it unlike with the carrots and sweet potatos. After the third time she gagged, even on the totally mushed up banana on a spoon, and I fished the food out of her mouth we decided she was done. We will try again tomorrow. Jordi thinks the banana might not have been ripe enough, he prefers his bananas much more brown on the outside than I do.

Josie eating banana

Hey! No one said you could take my picture

Thursday, November 6th, 2008 by Jen

She grew a whole bunch last week and is a bit trimmer now and even taller!

Josie at her music table

Adventures in eating: carrots

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 by Jen

This past Monday we started Josie on steamed carrots. I think she was surprised that something that looked so similar to her sweet potatos didn’t taste and handle the same way. The first night she was not into them at all and balked at how they tasted but by Wednesday (picture below) she was grabbing them and taking small bites like a pro. I think she even likes them now even though I burned them (don’t ask how you burn steamed carrots… I need more sleep).

Josie and her carrot

See her eat them in action on Monday: