sleepy

Lily woke me several times last night. I think it was related to a feeding schedule mix up. I feel very poorly today. Lily is, of course, full of energy and ready to play. Thankfully I have the cats to pick up the slack.

Let me see. Lily hasn't crawled yet but she's getting close. She can inch her way across the floor to a toy. She's wicked fast at rolling over so I have to keep a close eye on her. Here she is at play in the study. She can sit up for long periods of time now. :)








Well my poor little brain isn't working so well. This picture is of Lily playing with a plug this morning with BG's assistance. Daddy needs to quit leaving stuff on the floor....

Baby Yodelling

I think Lily let me sleep last night but the night before she woke me up at 3:00am with baby yodelling. Pedro heard her doing it last night so I know I wasn't imagining it. She does it in her sleep. Now, I have been caught singing in my sleep a few times (it sounds like violent humming) so I can't really cast a stone at Miss Lily. I usually put a pillow over my head and try to get back to sleep.

The other thing I wanted to mention is that Lily is finally eating the baby food that I make. She loves my strawberry and banana mixture and I've come across an apple that makes good enough apple sauce. If I do have child #2, I'm giving them my baby food straight away so I don't have to compete with Beech Nut. HMPF!

Mother's Day rib

I hope everyone's having a lovely Mother's Day. Here's to Esther taking off for India. woot! As you can probably tell, I made ribs for lunch. Unfortunately, that coincided with Lily's lunch. Daddy offered to feed her, which was very nice of him as he was hungry too. Well Lily kept watching me eat, staring at the rib in my hand.

She wasn't too happy eating her food. Neither her jar, nor her bottle stopped her crying. So finally, I just gave her one of my finished ribs. You can see the results. There is a funny video but of course, I can't put it up here.

I let her chew on it for a while. Sometimes I could hear her two little teeth clunking on the bone. :) She's super proud of herself. It's harder than ever to get her to drink her formula. I'm sure some of you are thinking, well then let her have something else. She needs formula until she's a year old, she needs all the nutrients in it. Plus I can't let her get dehydrated. So I will struggle on. I wonder if I could dip a rib bone in her bottle and let her suck the formula off????

thai

Sorry, I've been tired again and I haven't felt very much like writing about Lily. This is just a quick note as I hope she falls asleep soon. :) We went out for lunch at a Thai restaurant today. YUMMY! Miss Lily behaved herself. People can't help themselves when we're out in public, they have to come up and say what a beautiful baby she is. :)

I think there was something else I wanted to mention, but I'm too tired to remember. Anyway, I hope all the mothers out there have a wonderful Mother's Day tomorrow. :) It's my first!

sittin up

I took some funny pictures of Miss Lily in her crib. She is so good at sitting now. She bends at the waist and reaches forward to grab things, then sits up straight. You can tell she's SO proud of herself. Pedro has banned me putting up videos of Lily so I tried to capture what she was doing frame by frame, but I failed miserably.

There's a picture of her sitting up and one of her flopped down. She was having a great time grabbing her blanket and pulling it up over herself. I tried to get a picture of her pulling up the blanket but I only managed to get a picture of her falling backwards. Which is quite good too. :)


She looks pretty unconcerned about falling....

UPDATE: Well, it looks like we just had a little bit of backwards crawling... Any day now folks, Lily will be off and running. Off and crawling, I mean. :)

Empty

Sorry I haven't been writing as much, I've been very run down. Last night we watched X-Men 3 until 12:15am. That was my mistake but it was fun hanging out with my husband, whom I don't see very often. :) I'm so tired today that I'm stumbling around like I'm drunk. It's one of those days where Lily and I spend a lot of time on the bed. I sing to her or read her stories. I'd hate to lose my balance while walking around holding her.

These pictures are from today. She is getting so close to crawling. She keeps getting herself in the crawling position and rocking back and forth. I'm looking forward to it although I know I'll be running around making sure she doesn't get into dangerous things. We already have a babygate. :) Well I'm getting tired of fixing all my typos. Here's to a long sleep tonight. :)

Salamander Bagel

I gave Lily some frozen bagel slices this morning. She loves them! I've been having trouble getting her to drink her formula today. She seems to want to make a switch to solid food. Which seemed especially obvious after she had a temper tantrum on my lap when I wouldn't give her any of my yogurt. Sigh.

And what kind of lizard is this??? It's living on my front porch under some firewood. It's about 6 or 7 inches long. I'm hoping it's responsible for the fall in ant populations in the front. I'm kind of having a rough day. Between Lily and the cats I'm in need of a vacation. Now Lily is scratching the door frame. Sigh.

UPDATE: I've discovered that the lizard is a 5 lined skink. The males don't have a blue tail and get a copper head during the mating season. There is a 5 lined skink with a blue tail in the other side of the garden. I'm going to have baby skinks! (well not me personally)

The Crawl, part 1

Miss Lily is getting so close to crawling. She gets into position and then rocks back and forth. She hasn't quite coordinated reaching out. But she'll get there. I took this picture this morning but the dern camera wouldn't focus.

And Pedro's going to kill me but I did upload the video of Lily blowing raspberries to youtube. I guess if I invite family/friends to subscribe to youtube I can set the videos to private and then only we, WE, can see them on there. But for now, because it's so darn funny, I just posted the one video of Lily as public. Most of the time she's facing away from the camera so I don't think Gerber is going steal a frame and use it for their advertising.

Alright, this is taking forever. (and maybe I forgot the video was uploading and closed the browser - whatever) So I'm going to feed Miss Lily and then update when the video is ready.

FINALLY: It took 20 minutes to load. Blah but here's the video. Sorry I talk so much in it, I couldn't help but laugh at her. :)

ugh

Miss Lily is trying SO hard to crawl. She's doing really well at getting into a crouch position. It used to be that if her front end went up, her back end went down. And vice versa. Here she is this morning. We had to put socks on her because it's been SO cold!

I'm watching a video of Lily blowing raspberries and it is cracking me up so badly. I think I'm going to have to break the no video on youtube law so that you guys can see. I mean what's the point of having a funny gorgeous baby if you can't show her off??? Besides her back is to the camera most of the time.



I love this last picture. It's kind of like, what do you mean this is daddy's shoe? As you can tell she is becoming so much fun.

On a culinary note, I made my own baked beans today. :) I was looking at the prices of beans in the store and I thought, I have to be able to make my own. Now I just have to keep Pedro from eating it all. :P

UPDATE: I've been eating my beans with Lily on my lap. Every time I bring the spoon up to my mouth, she opens up her mouth as the spoon passes her by. I put some sauce on her tongue and she liked it. So I put a bean in there. Liked it, not so much. A very flat bean came back out. :) And here's a picture of what she looks like, when she crouches. She used to only be able to do it in her crib but she can do it on any surface now. :) Go Lily!

fast

I only have a little bit of time today. I'm meeting a friend for lunch! Hooray, I still have a friend! Lily has been a lot of fun lately. She tries to talk more and more and I know I've heard her say "mama" a few times although, I'm sure she doesn't know what it means. :) Here's a picture of her in her Peruvian outfit. I had an appointment yesterday afternoon so I had to dress her up. Pedro thinks she should wear her sheep pajamas everywhere.

Here's a picture of her in her swing. She's at the weight cutoff for it but she finally seems to be enjoying it. I strapped her in and turned it on. The last time I did that she howled. I had to try this time because I needed to get dinner in the oven! Sigh.

And here's a picture of her sleeping during her nap yesterday. The poor thing was so good at the bank. We were there for well over an hour. Of course, I'm a smart mommy and timed the appointment between feedings and brought toys for Lily. We were both tired when we got home, but one of us got to sleep and the other didn't....

Riley

Riley is such a good cat. I try to watch Lily when they're close together as she tends to grab handfuls of his coat. This morning I wasn't paying attention and she grabbed him. I only noticed because Riley stood up and turned around in an attack stance sort of way. But he didn't even raise his paw to smack her. He's been so good with her.

This is how Miss Lily was sleeping last night. This position always cracks me up. She's been getting her knees under her more and more and sometimes she gets into a little crouch, but the crawl stance eludes her. I was hoping she'd skip crawling for walking but, oh well. Right now she's busy playing in the corner. I like that she's at an age where she can entertain herself. Granted she doesn't always want to. Now it's hold out arms to be picked up and if mommy or daddy doesn't do it right away, then cry. Sigh.

Saucy

I thought I was the bomb yesterday. I made baby food. Of course, Lily hated it. Dern Beechnut! I'm sure they have teams of "scientists" finding out what textures and flavors babies love. How can I compete??? I'll tell you. I'm going to mix my applesauce with their applesauce and slowly wean Lily on to mine! HA!

Lily has slept through the last 2 or 3 nights, but she wakes up every morning at 6am. Sometimes she falls back asleep. Not this morning. Sigh. Well my little petunia is fussing so I'd better go take care of her.

Happy / Sad

Well this kind of counts as happy news. A little terrier in New Zealand fought off (kind of) 2 pit bulls that were going to attack 5 children. Poor little George was not even a foot high. Anyway, he protected the kids or the pit bulls attacked him and gave the kids a chance to run. Whichever way you want to look at it. He had to be put down. Poor little munchkin. At least he saved the day. :)

Foodie

We've been giving Lily strips of pepper to chew on for a couple of days now. She had a moment of what the heck is this, and now she loves them. The cute thing is when she has pepper breath instead of formula breath. :)

For whatever reason (allergies, lack of sleep) I have been feeling so rough today. I've had a headache most of the day. Sigh. I know, no one cares - just feed the masses more pictures of Lily.

We had our big Cheerios experiment tonight. I thought she was doing pretty well until I took her out of her highchair and found a dozen pieces of cereal. :)

She can get a Cheerio in her hand, but her hands are so gooey that she can't get it in her mouth - it stays stuck to her fingers. :) Hey, this was the first time and she did pretty well.

One is the loneliest number

Here's a picture of poor Miss Daphne. She's too old and too fat to get over the baby gate. :( For some reason B.G. hasn't come in the study. I think he thinks that it might be a trap. He's laying outside the baby gate right now.

Miss Lily is deciding which book to read. I love this look she gives me over her shoulder. She is so funny. Well, I know we're not going for a walk today. It's going to be 90F (32C) and that's too hot for me! I think I'm going to have to make sure the books are jammed in tight so that Lily can't dump a load of books on herself.

And with regards to the picture below, do you think Lily is trying to tell me that she'd like a pillow?