Category Archives: firsts

First Tooth :-)

Leave a reply
So the past couple of days have been difficult, and now I know why. Andrea popped her first tooth today! 

Even though Andrea was pretty fussy Monday and Tuesday, I’ve been fooled by what I thought was teething before, so it never crossed my mind this time. Then overnight, everything changed. Andrea woke up and has been a perfect angel all day. I still didn’t clue in though until I checked her gums this afternoon (which I do almost every day), and I noticed her first tooth had poked through on the bottom! AHA! Her fussiness the past two days has a name – TEETHING! 

I’ll post a picture as soon as it starts showing when she smiles. For now, you can only see it if you pull down her bottom lip, which she isn’t a big fan of. LOL

Smart girl!

Leave a reply

I’m trying to get better at posting regularly on here again, so I thought I’d make a quick post to say that Andrea figured out an awesome new skill this weekend. She can now drink out of a straw!

For the most part, Andrea has never really taken to bottles (even after I bought every type under the sun). And we’ve had mixed success with sippy cups (she mostly likes to chew on the ends, which is messy). So I started working on getting her drink from a straw, and after drizzling a little water from straws on occassion, she all of a sudden figured out how to drink from them on her own over the past couple of days. She loves it! We marked the occassion by buying her a Baby Einstein sippy cup with a straw today, which she seems to like. I will try take a picture or some video and post it here soon. It’s very funny to see, since she’s so little, but she does a great job!

Prunes!

Leave a reply

I know I haven’t updated in a while, and I need to add some older stuff, but I had a quick video to share…

Andrea has been sort of hot-and-cold about solids, but I started to notice that she is more excited about eating when she gets prunes. We’ve been doing baby food prune puree, but we’ve also been trying to let her try finger food sometimes, so today I bought some regular prunes at the store to see what Andrea would think of them. Her reaction was so funny that I had to share a bit of the video…

She took the prune from me after this and gummed on it for a little while before she decided she was done.

The other finger foods we’ve tried are avocado, sweet potatoes, and pears. She has trouble holding the avocado and sweet potatoes, because they are too slippery/mushy, but she seems to enjoy chewing on pear slices and now prunes. LOL

Wonder Week 19

Leave a reply

I have a great book called “The Wonder Weeks” that describes several big developmental growth weeks in babies’ lives. One of the big ones is Week 19, and Andrea just went through it – it was really obvious. She’s really figuring things out.

Wednesday night Andrea all of a sudden slept 6 hours straight. She hasn’t slept like that in almost 2 months. Since then, she’s been sleeping for a 5-6 hour stretch during the night. It’s been wonderful. Then Saturday she woke up from a nap and I reached my arms out to her (like I do every time) before picking her up, and she reached back to me for the first time! She was clearly mimicking me. And she’s done it every time Paul or I have gone to pick her up since then.

After he nap on Saturday afternoon, I brought her downstairs and I while I was changing her, I let her play on the floor a little while naked. She started squirming around and within a few minutes had rolled over from her back to her tummy for the first time! It’s like she woke up from her nap smarter. 🙂 She rolled over onto her tummy twice more on Saturday, but she doesn’t like to be on her tummy so it makes her kind of mad. I’m sure she’ll be rolling all around in no time!

We went swimming!

Leave a reply

Andrea went to the pool for the first time on Aug. 1st. We went in the evening, so we didn’t have to worry about the sun. She really loved it. She kicked and splashed and had a good time. And she slept GREAT that night. We’ll definitely be going back to the pool before the season is over. And we’re going to look for some swim “classes” at an indoor pool during the winter.

Play time!

Leave a reply

Andrea is having a lot more fun these days – she figured out how play with her toys all by herself. She will reach for a  rattle, pick it up, and shake it. She then usually tries to shove it in her mouth and gum it to death. She also can pass toys from one hand to another. We have noticed that she often grabs for things with her left hand, so we are wondering if she may be a leftie like her Uncle Thor?!?

Yesterday, we went in the tub and I showed her how to splash the water with her hands. She caught on quickly and LOVED this new trick. She sat and splashed and splashed for a long time and was sad when “tubby time” was over. I also held her sort of floating on her back and she would pull her feet up to her chest and then splash them down into the water.

She also grabs at her toes ALL the time now. In fact, I think it’s disrupting her sleep because the first thing she does when you lay her on her back is start swinging her legs up and down trying to get a hold of her feet.  This also causes her to kick the tray on her swing a lot, and she gets mad that it is blocking her from reaching her feet. Her toes were apparently quite an exciting discovery for her.