How's that for pretty writing? Instead, I offer you pretty baby:
Random strangers ask me whether I just want to eat those cheeks, and I say, "You betcha! I do it all. The. Time."
She has the most ridiculously round face. In a good way. Her perky little dimpled chin and bright blue eyes... I can't get enough of her. Don't get me started on her thighs and toes. Nibble, nibble.
She's not exactly doing a whole lot these days, apart from being decorative and occasionally noisy. She's gaining balance toward sitting, but is still in need of assistance. She has some strong, bounce-loving legs, so she spends a fair chunk of dinner-prep time in the door jumper thing, cracking herself up. We started rice cereal a few days ago (can you tell we're just not rushing things here on baby #5?) and it's going fine. She's had it all of three times and I'm already thinking I want to move on to some mashed bananas or other more interesting options. I mean, rice cereal? Ick. I wouldn't be all that enthusiastic either. I figure I'd better hold off till she has a poo, just to make sure the cereal isn't constipating her before I switch to even more constipation-causing foods, though. Yes, you read that right - she's hasn't had a poo in three days since we started the cereal, but that's not actually abnormal for her. She typically only does that every four or five days. Ruth was the same way; there's nothing to worry about. Is this t.m.i.? I thought so. Sorry.
You know what she's NOT doing? Sleeping through the night well. Don't get me wrong, I'm not desperately sleep deprived. I've heard some horror stories from friends, so I'm counting my blessings. Rachel is still up twice a night to eat, though, and I'm at a bit of a loss how to "fix" that. My past several kids have just started sleeping through the night nice and early, so I've been spoiled. I feed her and put her down around 7:30pm, then she typically wakes between 11pm and 12:30am and then again between 3:30am and 5am. The earlier of those two often comes right around when I'm heading to bed, so it's not too much of a hassle, but I still am hopeful that introducing some solid foods will help fill her up so she doesn't need to eat till about 5-6am, ideally. I'm wondering whether I'm producing less milk this time than with past babies, but she's growing and thriving, so I'm not going to worry about it. If I reach the desperately sleep-deprived stage, THEN I'll worry about it.
Also, she's teething. Probably. At a bare minimum she's drooling like she expects it to be made an Olympic sport and she wants to make sure she earns the first ever gold medal. Then again, she's been doing that for a couple months and still has no teeth to show for it, so maybe she just loves a wet, slimy chin. To each her own. Nathaniel thinks one of her top teeth is about ready to erupt. That would be novel, since all the other kids have gone the more typical, bottom-first route with teeth. I'll keep you posted.
*Thanks to Hillary and DB for the super cute onesie in the photos. Clearly Rachel loves it!
1 comment:
o boy! you're on a roll with these pictures! ;)
how lucky for you that you don't have to change a poopy diaper as often! i've never heard of that!
she is the cutest!
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