~9 months old
Well, one day after I had posted that Pippa wasn't doing any baby signs yet - she started doing "all done"! :)
It is very cute. I will try to catch it on video. It is like a new world, she can tell us at least this one thing! Sometimes we don't like it ("are you sure you're all done your carrots?"), but we're trying to respect it. I think we don't do "all done" the most common way, because I just tried to google for a picture of it and found all sorts of pics of how we don't do it. Oh well!
In health news, Pips has a bit of a vomit/diarrhea combo deal going on. The doc says it is going around. Poot! Should be done by tomorrow. The real question is whether or not DH and I will get it! Chinese New Year is coming up, it would be a shame to not be able to partake of the big family meal!
We're also planning on sleeping over at his parents, so DH can ring in the new year with family, and everyone can eat breakfast together (if we eat the first meal together we'll be together all year). We're also madly cleaning up today - it's a luck thing, no cleaning on New Years day, so it's a good reason to 'spring' clean before CNYE. Until DH and I were married, I had no idea what a big deal Chinese New Year is!
Oh, and a word about banana baby food - I will say, I think I have been shopping at 'Bananas R Us'! On a weekend trip to America (to visit a friend who has a baby due soon! super fun!) we found lots more veggie options in packets (I was limited to packets when buying cruise food). I brought home a few so they'd be around if I ever was in a fix and needed some food pronto.
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
9 months
Our baby girl is 3/4 of a year old! Man, how time flies!
Our little baby girl is even bigger now! Can't believe it!
Eating:
Still mixing purees/mooshed food and a bit of her feeding herself. She really loves gnawing down on a carrot or piece of apple. Still haven't fed her any grains - gave her a bit of buckwheat yesterday, she wasn't too jazzed by it. I will try again later.
She loves greek yoghurt! So I give her that with an egg yolk for breakfast some days - helps her to eat the egg yolk. I had to throw out all my nicely prepared beef liver after the power outage (we were out ~60+ hrs), I'm just now getting around to preparing another beef liver.
On the cruise she ate the baby food I brought for her, and we fed her off our plates when appropriate. So...store bought baby food is like, mostly bananas? I'm not super impressed. Even the fancy organic ones are mostly bananas and apples. Um...babies need veggies and protein too, ja? They would have kale or broccoli on the front and in the name, but if you tasted it...bananas.
I did like the lentils we brought, and gave her some lentil curry that I made this week - she likes! :)
Still breastfeeding like mad.
Speaking of cruise - here is our baby girl on a beach in the Cayman Islands! That was a fun day. DH, Pippa, my Dad (heretoknown as G-Dad) and I hung out at the beach.
Infant Pottying:
I think the cruise week has put us off track a bit. She was in disposables all week, we hardly pottyed her at all. She really protests when we put her on the toilet. But once on, she settles down and pees if she needs to. I'm hoping this is just a stage and she'll be back to it soon.
Her poos have gotten less gucky, so I can just flip them into the toilet, it's not too much fuss.
Cloth Diapering:
Yes, still on it - except for the cruise week. My little Pipster is a VERY squirmy baby. It is now super hard to put prefolds on her - she just won't stay still! Even with the 'leg over' technique. So I've ordered a few more velcro diapers (yes, yes, I'm a diaper hog!). I can put the velcro ones on her while she's standing up - which is what she loves to do in the bathroom, just stand and hold on to the edge of the tub.
Milestones:
Sort of the same as last month. Is better at standing. Does some cruising but not very often. We're trying to teach her to 'high five', but it's in the early stages still. Meets all her 9 month milestones. Hasn't done any baby signing back to me yet.
Favourite Songs:
Um...haven't been doing too much singing! I need to sign up for another baby signing class, so I keep my head in the game! We're old enough now for 'Mr Bear Says Hello'.
Baby Health:
She did get a cold this month, and has a bit of a cough still. Otherwise good.
My Health:
I did come down with the same sickness that she had. I developed quite the chest cough on the cruise, which I am terming "cruise cough".
My lady parts did not quite heal as I would have liked after the birth, I will make an appt to see about this soon. Still no sign of AF.
Sleeping:
Here is our focus for the next month. She's still feeding about the same number of times a night as ever. DH and I have decided to bite the bullet and sleep-train her next week (we're planning to go visit some friends on the weekend, we'll start after that. When we're 'done' we'll go to my hometown to visit Pippa's new born cousin!). I think it will be rough. But hopefully it will work, and will have been worth it.
We're planning on reducing her night feedings by one minute a night - to theoretically shift her eating from night into day. She's still feeding like 3-4 times a night, and that's not going to be cool when I go back to work. I have a friend who this worked for, so hopefully it will work for us! :)
Our little baby girl is even bigger now! Can't believe it!
Eating:
Still mixing purees/mooshed food and a bit of her feeding herself. She really loves gnawing down on a carrot or piece of apple. Still haven't fed her any grains - gave her a bit of buckwheat yesterday, she wasn't too jazzed by it. I will try again later.
She loves greek yoghurt! So I give her that with an egg yolk for breakfast some days - helps her to eat the egg yolk. I had to throw out all my nicely prepared beef liver after the power outage (we were out ~60+ hrs), I'm just now getting around to preparing another beef liver.
On the cruise she ate the baby food I brought for her, and we fed her off our plates when appropriate. So...store bought baby food is like, mostly bananas? I'm not super impressed. Even the fancy organic ones are mostly bananas and apples. Um...babies need veggies and protein too, ja? They would have kale or broccoli on the front and in the name, but if you tasted it...bananas.
I did like the lentils we brought, and gave her some lentil curry that I made this week - she likes! :)
Still breastfeeding like mad.
Speaking of cruise - here is our baby girl on a beach in the Cayman Islands! That was a fun day. DH, Pippa, my Dad (heretoknown as G-Dad) and I hung out at the beach.
I think the cruise week has put us off track a bit. She was in disposables all week, we hardly pottyed her at all. She really protests when we put her on the toilet. But once on, she settles down and pees if she needs to. I'm hoping this is just a stage and she'll be back to it soon.
Her poos have gotten less gucky, so I can just flip them into the toilet, it's not too much fuss.
Cloth Diapering:
Yes, still on it - except for the cruise week. My little Pipster is a VERY squirmy baby. It is now super hard to put prefolds on her - she just won't stay still! Even with the 'leg over' technique. So I've ordered a few more velcro diapers (yes, yes, I'm a diaper hog!). I can put the velcro ones on her while she's standing up - which is what she loves to do in the bathroom, just stand and hold on to the edge of the tub.
Milestones:
Sort of the same as last month. Is better at standing. Does some cruising but not very often. We're trying to teach her to 'high five', but it's in the early stages still. Meets all her 9 month milestones. Hasn't done any baby signing back to me yet.
Favourite Songs:
Um...haven't been doing too much singing! I need to sign up for another baby signing class, so I keep my head in the game! We're old enough now for 'Mr Bear Says Hello'.
Baby Health:
She did get a cold this month, and has a bit of a cough still. Otherwise good.
My Health:
I did come down with the same sickness that she had. I developed quite the chest cough on the cruise, which I am terming "cruise cough".
My lady parts did not quite heal as I would have liked after the birth, I will make an appt to see about this soon. Still no sign of AF.
Sleeping:
Here is our focus for the next month. She's still feeding about the same number of times a night as ever. DH and I have decided to bite the bullet and sleep-train her next week (we're planning to go visit some friends on the weekend, we'll start after that. When we're 'done' we'll go to my hometown to visit Pippa's new born cousin!). I think it will be rough. But hopefully it will work, and will have been worth it.
We're planning on reducing her night feedings by one minute a night - to theoretically shift her eating from night into day. She's still feeding like 3-4 times a night, and that's not going to be cool when I go back to work. I have a friend who this worked for, so hopefully it will work for us! :)
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