This past week has been pretty eventful for Isabella. Last weekend she started going on her hands and knees and Monday she started rocking! She gathers up so much momentum that it looks like she is about to take off...then she flops down. She is starting to do this belly flop thing, where she rocks rocks rocks, gets up the momentum, then flops herself forwards instead of crawling. It's cute, and she eventually gets to where she was trying to go. She will be crawling VERY soon, so Matt and I are about to start baby proofing the house. We are in the market for a gate that will attach to the railing at the top of the stairs. Gates are pretty expensive these days. The pressure gates aren't too bad, but since it needs to be sturdy enough that Isabella can't just push on it and fall down the stairs, that is creating a challenge. Here is a very short video of her rocking:
This was the first day she really started rocking.
Isabella had not tried any new food lately because we are trying to narrow down some issues she is having with something she is eating. She was spitting up more frequently after she would eat solids some days. So I had to start over again trying to find what food did what. I know I should have been looking for this before, but things get hectic. Plus I figured as long as she wasn't running a fever or developing a major rash, she was fine.
Apples: (homemade) She flat out just does not like. I have tried two different types of apples and she didn't dig either one. I'm still going to give her apples though, just on the off chance that she will grow to like them.
Peaches: (Jar) She LOVES, and so far no reactions
Squash: (homemade and in the jar) She LOVES. I don't think she has any reactions to it. Her eczema started acting up around the time she started this food, but at the same time we ran out of her usual lotion and started using a different kind we already had. That may have been a contributor.
Carrots: (homemade) This seems to make her spit up a bit more than usual. She likes them though! I'm sure she will like them even more when it's made with Alaskan grown.
Oatmeal: Another food that seemed to add to the normal amount of spit-up, plus the eczema. She might have a gluten allergy.
Sweet Potatoes (homemade and jar): I think by far, her favorite food. Unfortunately it does make her spit-up the most. I'm not sure why...
Rice Cereal: She has always liked this just enough to tolerate it. She would rather have it mixed with peaches than with formula (who could blame her??)
Bananas: She has only had this one time. They weren't mashed very well so she had trouble. She didn't seem to like them, but it could have been the texture at the time. I have some mashed up bananas in the freezer for banana bread that I might designate for Isabella instead. She had the banana so long ago that I can't remember if it caused anything. I know it didn't cause anything major of course.
Pears (jar): This was her new food that we finally started last night. She did start spitting-up more after she had it, but it could also have been that she had just had a bottle a half hour before this and was already full. I'm going to give it to her again after the nap she is taking right now and see if it makes a difference. She seemed to like it though.
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| Pears 8.6.11 |
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| Pears 8.6.11 |
Her next food will be green beans. We have a bunch of it jarred and need to use some of it. So far she still has not had a green vegetable! It's been mostly because I have been trying to find a good fruit for her for breakfast to mix with rice cereal. Because apples weren't working, I went on to peaches. Since they work I need to find one more to rotate with the peaches. Now that I found pears, we can start on green beans.
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| Happy Baby 8.5.11 |
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| One of the first times on her hands and knees |
Matt was playing with the Snap-On guy a couple weeks ago, spending money and whatnot. The Snap-On guy gave him a water gun that looks like a cordless drill:
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| If you didn't know this was a water gun, you might be freaking out right about now. :) |
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| Snap-On Poster Child 7.20.11 |
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| Playing in her bouncy center |
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| Daddy and Isabella |
Matt and I attended church this morning online. Our church has a live feed option and we thought we would check it out. Isabella got a morning nap (a rarity on Sunday mornings these days) and she is in better spirits because of it. I think we will have to tune into the live feed once or twice a month just to give Isabella a break. She goes into the "baby beluga" room for babies her age. She tends to be the only one in there during the whole service! Only a couple of times have there been other babies to watch and play with. I get called out of the service every time anymore because she is having problems. I think the separation anxiety has hit. Lucky us.
We tried to leave her with my parents yesterday while we went and had lunch in Eagle River for our anniversary. Our anniversary is on Tuesday but Matt will be in Talkeetna working so we celebrated early. By the time we got back to my parents' house she was a wreck! Apparently she had been crying her head off most of time we had been gone. MAN! I don't think we fully took advantage of our situation before the separation anxiety hit her. Now the fun really begins. It's not so bad when Matt leaves, but when I'm not there or neither of us are she really loses her mind. I knew there was a draw back of being a stay-at-home mom.
Well I think that's about it for the week. More to come I'm sure! Hope everyone had a good weekend!
Stacy Schneider, "Mother Extraordinaire"
