Blue

Jodie, she is getting up on her hands and knees and moving forward now, but it's not like she is at full speed. The bigger babies have more poundage to move around. ;)
Her eyes are blue.
Like, but don't LOVE the teether. I put frozen bananas in it or frozen baby food and she seems to enjoy it, but I only use it before I bathe her because it makes a huge mess.

She has an unsightly runny nose in this picture - so I cropped it to avoid the "what gross pictures" comment. Ha!

A Few Milestones

Millie decided to start crawling on all fours last night. No longer just a worm. And today those two little teeth finally decided to break through on the bottom. Two milestones in two days. 6 months is a pretty busy age.

Give a Cat a Bone?

So, I have a random chicken bone sitting in my fridge right now. Just sitting there on the shelf. I felt like it was a reasonable, though silly, compromise.

Ryan loves all things fast; space shuttles, race cars, jets, Blue Angels, the French TGV trains, and of course, cheetahs. He pretends to be a cheetah pretty much all the time. He is always on all fours (hands and feet, not knees) and races all over the place. He's actually pretty fast at it. He often scares Katie with his "mean cheetah" faces. He is learning that "mean cheetahs" have to go outside. Only nice cheetahs are allowed in the house. He tries to keep the mean faces to a minimum. The cheetah play has also caused many a hole-in-the-knee of his pants, but that's a story for another day. I digress.

He has recently started asking me - no, BEGGING me for a dog bone. We go to the pet store to buy food for our bunnies and he asks me if I will buy him a dog bone. I ask what he wants to do with it and he tells me in an exasperated tone, "Chew on it." I have tried to explain how disgusting that is (he LOVES the word "disgusting" right now), but he still insists that he needs one so that when he is pretending to be a cheetah, he can chew on a bone.

So last night when we ate a roasted chicken, he asked for the drumstick. Then he cleaned the chicken off of the bone and went and washed it off. Don't think I didn't see it coming. At least it doesn't have weird dog stuff on it. I told him it would NOT be okay to keep it in his room or else it would get gross and start to smell awful. He declared that he could keep it from going bad if he just put it in the fridge. *sigh* A good compromise? You tell me.

Response to Gina

Maybe I shouldn't mention that last week alone, all three of our children fell off of a bed and hit their heads. All three. In one week.

Ouch!

She fell off of the picnic table bench at the park.

This is what the outside looks like.

Here's the inside. Her tooth pretty much went through to the other side. That's what the outside wound was. Ouch!

Can't Get Enough

Here is my new eat-it-at-every-meal, wish-they-sold-it-by-the-gallons, I-just-might-clean-Costco-out favorite food.

Millie Sits Up

Pears Update

Apparently, Millie got a virus that lead to congestion that lead to a double ear infection.
The virus caused the rash a few days later, not the pears.

And the diaper rash is a separate issue. Something in Huggies reacts with her skin. So we have to use a different brand of diapers.

Now, hopefully she's on the mend.

5 months

14 lbs 6 oz
26 inches

• Eats some solid foods - rice cereal and applesauce mainly.
• Her hair is growing up top so it doesn't stick straight up as much anymore - much to her father's dismay. He says that was her trademark.
• It also doesn't appear to be curly anymore.
• Gets up on her hands and knees and rocks back and forth (belly completely off of the floor).
• Can scoot but is still not completely controlled about it.
• Has started to sit up on her own.
• Will now voice her displeasure over things - usually when the baby food is all gone.
• Has the tiniest bit of stranger anxiety when things are moving too fast or too loudly.
  
• Can sit easily on my hip.
• Can ride in a shopping cart.
• Still doesn't have her ears pierced.
  
• Thinks kids are SO funny.
• LOVES when I sing to her - even right in her face.
  

Pears?

It all started with a well check-up. We found out Millie had a double ear infection that was pretty advanced, so she was prescribed some antibiotics. Then she got two vaccinations. Then, a few days later, I gave her some pears. Shortly after I noticed a rash covering her entire upper body from head to waist, including her arms. After about 30 minutes it went away.

I was a bit confused because she had so many "new" things happen to her recently, it was difficult to isolate the rash to an obvious cause. Still, it happened shortly after giving her the pears, so I deemed her sensitive to pears at this point in her life. Pears? I've never heard of that.

Thing is, I gave her sweet potatoes at night (which she has had previously with no reaction) and she got the same darned rash all up her body. Which also disappeared after 30 minutes. And now the diarrhea has started. And a pretty rockin' diaper rash. *sigh* Wish me luck with this one. I hate the guessing games that go along with food sensitivities.