Celia got her 4th tooth in on Thursday this past week! Her sleep improved for a few days and now I think we’re hitting another development leap either in speech or mobility, she’s getting so much closer to walking, she’ll take a few steps now when forced to.
We left for our cruise on a Friday to give us lots of breathing room for a ship that left on Saturday afternoon.The girls did pretty well on the flight down there although we flew Spirit (aka nickel and dime air) and the infant seat could not fit in-between their seats even though we had tons of empty seats in which to put it. Had we actually bought a seat, they would have had to bump the people in the bulkhead seats for us to make us fit. Celia is not quite as good a flier as Josie was, she was more agitated but still did ok, just wore us out some more. We flew directly to Fort Lauderdale and stayed on the Sheraton on the beach (a nice splurge for us!) so we’d have easy access to fun play time in the sand and surf.
We got a room right next to the beach and we headed out for some play in the sand and surf. Josie had just about no interest in the water at all and Jordi declared the water to be cold (in May, in Fort Lauderdale). You can guess how much he likes the water here in new england in the summer! I got in the water a little, Celia hung out on the blanket and played with the towels and sand. We played in the pool too and got some food.
We got a reminder never to turn out backs on the kids near the pool because Josie just completely ignored the steps in the pool and dropped in over her head and I got to pull her out, thankfully I was only two steps away. I tried not to show how scary that was for me. It was an infinity pool and so we had to pull her back from the edge repeatedly too.
That night after dinner the sun was setting wonderfully and I dragged the girls outside for a quick photoshoot for 5 minutes and I liked some of the shots I got, even if she wasn’t terribly cooperative. In the morning we went back out onto the beach, played on the nearby playground, and checked out the lifeguard towers. Then we showered, packed up and headed to the cruiseport!
This weekend Celia decided to be busy. She got one new tooth through and the next one is coming. She also took her first steps, but is still grabbing everything she can to walk her around, including a bin from IKEA is apparently enough support now.
We enjoyed a fun party at Craig and Alyssa’s house on Saturday, went to the zoo and hung out with my parents on Sunday and enjoyed another toddler birthday party today.
On the 17th Celia turned 7 months old. On the actual day, we spent our time traveling back from Miami.
Cecilia is a bundle of energy, always wanting to walk and cruise around. She is not content for long at all to sit and play with toys, she is constantly pulling herself up on things. I can find her in the strangest positions if I leave her sitting for a minute, she ends up traveling quite far with her lunges and rolls. She can walk a little with one hand now pretty steadily, but prefers two for really speedy walking. She knows where she wants to go too, the bathroom being a favorite forbidden spot. She can get onto her knees and roll all around, but she hasn’t chosen that as a form of transportation yet other than in bed.
She is having some separation anxiety too, right on time to go along with those walking skills. It seems I can hand her off to someone generally ok, but if that person tries to pass her along all bets are off. She’s had a lot of practice with new people with our vacation and really enjoys playing and smiling with new people, although sometimes at a distance. She loved all the attention on the cruise, she may have been the youngest baby on the ship as 6 months old is the minimum.
She’s loving her eating time and sits longer than anyone else at dinner. Celia continues to mostly only chew on books and try to grab them when I’m reading to Josie. She loves Josie and lights up when she enters the room. She always wants to touch her and pull Josie’s hair so we have to work on that a lot. She’s gotten better with petting the cats, now she mostly pets and then will eventually grab.
Celia is very content to be carried around a lot, but she gets sick of the house pretty quickly these days. She wants to be out and about seeing new things!
This cute little baby pushed this bouncy seat (yellow thing Celia is sitting in) across the floor of the dining room like a walker today, and then dragged it back behind her to get back to me again. She made it around two walls of our living room cruising on objects as well (bookcase to dollhouse to shopping cart to couch, down the couch to parallel bars). She also fell on her face at least four times today. Learning to walk is painful. On the plus side, she tried avocados and love them tonight.
I asked Lee to take a few quick family shots of us at the zoo since the light was good and he’s good behind the camera. I’m happy to get a few with all four of us, even if we’re all looking in different directions and such!
These days I’m trying to get Josie to hang out in the ‘big girl’ swings more often and learn to get herself moving, but it sure is nice to be able to put Celia down at the park in the swing. She loves it. They often share a swing too! [photo from my ipod]
Who knew Kaya likes broccoli? not us.
Some nights the spoon has held more interest than the food.
I have been accused by my friends of doing something like this to my children to produce such early walkers.
So I figured I might as well do it. My dad and I built it this weekend. They both love it, Josie uses it for gymnastics. Celia uses it to cruise. There is a lot less whiny baby at our house now. Give her another month and maybe we can pass it on to someone else for their calisthenics. I only wish we had this over the winter for Josie to get some climbing in on.
All the stuff on the floor is Josie’s easter loot. We are no-fun parents, she got no candy, just toys and other things. Wooden teething toys (both of them, cause all Josie wants to do is play with Celia’s stuff and wood figures can at least be used creatively in addition to being chewed on), a coloring book, bubbles, headband and underwear.
We spent the rest of Easter at my parents house doing an easter egg hunt and digging in the ground to plant some new raised beds for the plants we’ve been growing. I made a new vegetarian meatloaf (the all-time favorite one) which I highly recommend even though the recipe sounds weird.
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