- Hadley now eats cereal, bananas, and just started "tasting" sweet potatoes. Tonight she almost loved her sweet potatoes mixed in with her cereal. She's trying her new foods at daycare in the morning to make sure it doesn't upset her reflux. I don't know how long we'll use this practice to start new foods since she's getting older, but for now, that's how we're doing it. She's not a champion eater by any means; however, she IS a champion spitter-outer. We're working on it.
- Hadley's sleep schedule (well, not counting when they are sick) is now 7pm bedtime and this morning she woke up at 6:08am. She had been getting up as early as 5am the past few days so we are making bedtime later in hopes that wake time is also a bit later. ;-) Note: she was at 6:45p for bedtime or else we'd have a screaming child on our hands almost instantly. Some days she even slept until 7am with that bed time!
- She doesn't really roll over much since she had her first ah ha moments. She does like to get to her side while on her back and sometimes even a little further...but not quite all the way over. She's still iffy on tummy time.
- Hadley hates standing. She loves her exersaucer. Hate standing means when we hold her and try to get her to stand at all. Her legs hold for a second and then she becomes wet noodle legs. I hope it's nothing to worry about. That's about all I'm worried about when it comes to her development at the moment...
- We are starting to sign with her now that she's eating. We'll be expanding it to other things too, but for the moment, she's getting most of her sign while eating. She's doing a nice job of watching while I sign unless her sippy with water in it is near...
- Hadley LOVES LOVES LOVES her sippy with water in it at dinner time. As in she shakes if/when I take it away and sometimes all out scream-fusses to have it back. She's not truly drinking out of it tons but she really likes to chew on it...Morgan didn't get teeth for 4 months yet at this age so is it teeth? Is it something new? Who knows. Either way, I'm in love with how she likes to hold it by herself (of course, with a little help) and will be happy when she's independent here (although she can't stop being my baby, mmmm-K?)
- Hadley now has liners (the flush kind) in her diapers since she's eating more solids.
- Hadley loves to watch life going on around her. She watches Morgan all the time and is very grabby and exploratory with life around her. It's cute b/c her motor skills still have her reaching in slow motion except for when she grabs my hair. That happens in an instant.
- She's still the happiest baby I've ever seen. She smiles and laughs SO easily and it's really fun to tickle her until she almost pees her pants. My favorite is when she gets SO happy/smiley that she curls into a little smiley ball into whoever is holding her at the time. Aww.
That's our Howdy in a nutshell. Yes, we still all call her Howdy. Often. It sort of stuck since Morgan called her that from the get go. I can't imagine life without her and we love her to pieces!
And a few quickies for Miss Morgan...
- Morgan has been sleeping overnight in undies for weeks and weeks now. No accidents to date and she's pretty good about calling for us to get up at night or in the morning when she has to go. Woo!
- She LOVES to be outside. She plays outside often at daycare and whenever it's nice enough for Hadley to be out if we're single parenting.
- Morgan still love love loves her little sister. She wants to play with her and gets sad every time Hadley pulls her hair/skin/anything which happens often now since Hadley is grabber extraordinaire.
- Morgan makes up her own songs to anything. Some of them are great, some could use some work. ;-) but all make her very much her.
- She's still learning learning learning. Mary told me today that she and a few of the other kids were playing out their own version of Team Umizoomie (a show she loves that teaches her lots about math) outside. This is another big step in socialization and play skills for her which is fun to see as she does less parallel play and more group play.
- Morgan continues to show a real interest in church, Jesus, and God. I asked if she could start Sunday school in the fall even though her birthday isn't until October and I'm pretty sure we'll be able to get her in since she's able to follow directions, wait her turn, etc, and I think she'd be ready.
- She still takes 3 breathing treatments a day and needs them. They both get their last dose of ammoxicilin tomorrow morning (woo, one less thing to worry about) and Hadley is going to go to 2 breathing txs/day tomorrow, but we need to get more nebulizer medicine b/c we run out tomorrow for sure.
- Morgan wants to run whenever possible. She just loves to be on the move and go fast, which her new Nikes (swoosh goes on the outside! when putting them on by herself) allow her to do easily. ;-)
- She's still in swimming lessons although we're going to take a break after this session. She really really loves being in the water and had a blast at her swimming birthday party for a daycare friend last weekend.
We're so lucky to have these little bitty girlies. We love them to pieces and pieces and can't wait to see what the next month brings! Less than a month until mommy's "off" for the summer!
5 Months, hooray!
Polar bear friend
Can you believe mom wants us to hug?!
5 months and 30 months (2.5 years)
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