I'm 6 months old!

...and guess how I celebrated?? With a 102.5 fever! And pinkeye! And a throat infection!

I got sick on Thursday at daycare. Incidentally, the night before I also slept from 7:30 pm to 6:30 am WITHOUT WAKING MOMMY UP ONCE. I have only done that one other time and it was when I was like, 7 weeks old and Mommy had just bought me a new burrito blanket. Mommy's a little concerned now that I only did this because I was working on getting sick but ONLY I KNOW the answer to this, and I'm not telling! I was really not feeling well so I slept most of the day and went to bed for good at 4:30 (although Mommy didn't know I was going to bed for good so she had to wake me up later to change me into my PJs).

Anyhow, yesterday (my actual 6 month birthday) Mommy noticed that my junky eye was now junky with a special bonus of redness and often being completely stuck shut when I woke up from sleeping or naps. The doctor told her to bring me in today if it was still red and I was still sick. Which, I was! So Daddy brought me and the doctor told him what was wrong with me. Which is MANY THINGS. Now they've got some horrible eye drops to put in which I hate and the cleaning of my junky eye has ramped up to a zillion times its normal frequency and Mommy is completely paranoid that she's getting pinkeye, even though she's trying to wash her hands well and often.

A few new food tricks

I can sit up pretty well now on my own, so Mommy thought she'd give the highchair a whirl. I look very small in it, probably even more so because Mommy almost certainly doesn't have the straps set up correctly. Hopefully she'll get it together soon.

I'm still not all that nuts about SOLIDS. The teachers feed me every day at school and somehow they manage to get this to happen without me getting covered in goo. Mommy, not so much. We've been trying new foods. Mommy cooks them for me at home and at school I eat the stuff in jars stirred into my cereal. So far I have eaten sweet potatoes, carrots, green beans and peaches, and Mommy has peas, squash, apricots and pears in the freezer and some bananas in the kitchen.

Here are a few other things we have tried:
1. Avocado. Not sure how I feel about it. Kind of slimy and chunky. It sticks to the spoon real good so Mommy lets me try to feed it to myself.


2. Finger food I. Zweiback toast. This doesn't look like it would be messy but looks can be decieving. Mommy bought this instead of the teething biscuits because Rosco's Mommy said those were messy. Well, guess what? So is Zweiback!



3. Finger Food II. Sweet potato puffs. This didn't go so well at all. I can pick them up in my palm and bring my hand to my mouth but then when I open my hand the puff falls into my lap instead of my mouth. Mommy tried to help me and put one in my mouth but I didn't know what to do with it so I had a total conniption and Daddy thought I was choking.


4. Sippy Cup - the final frontier. Very little success on the sippy cup front, but I did manage to pick it up, bang it around and smear avocado all over it.

Taking a bath

The other day Daddy helped me take a bath.


Taking a bath now is a much different experience that it was when I was a little baby. Now I get to splash and chew on my rubber ducky.


Daddy helped me get out of the bath and dried me off with my giraffe towel.



Then we went to my changing table and started the bedtime routine: Diaper change, put on the bedtime lotion, PJs. Much to my dismay this also includes a step that I hate: cleaning off my junky eye and massaging my blocked tear duct.


You can see I'm a big help on the changing table. There are a lot of bottles that need to be chewed on!


Then Mommy feeds me and then reads me a book before she puts me into bed with my ducky blankie.


Nighty night!

Help Mommy

Mommy entered a photo in the Sam Adams photo contest. Please vote for her picture so she can win a prize!
Click on THIS LINK to see her picture. Its called 'Where's Mine?' and it is a picture of a baby praying mantis on a beer bottle. You might get taken to the Sam Adams main website to verify your age first - no babies voting! Then you can navigate to the 'Shots of Summer' area and to the 'Voting Gallery'.

This is what it looks like:


This week's contest ends on Wednesday (Mommy's photo didn't get put up until today though - no fair!), so please be sure to vote soon!!

Thanks!

Farmer's Market

Today Mommy took me to the Farmer's Market in Durham. We went with my friend Isaac and his Mommy and Daddy. It was fun. Mommy bought a lot of new vegetables for me to try: squash, green beans and peas. I've had green beans a few times at school actually, mixed in with my cereal. It looks NASTY, but I eat it anyway. I mean, the green beans don't look good when they're NOT mixed with cereal, so what's the difference?

These pictures are of me eating when we were in NH. The spoon was MOMMY'S spoon when she was a baby! It had her name engraved on it and everything. I think I was eating cereal with sweet potatoes.

Mommy's alarm clock

Mommy took me to the Carter's outlet last weekend to get me some 6-9 month size clothes (yes, I am already in 6-9 month! Well, I am almost 6 months old, so I guess thats not unusual but it still doesn't seem like I'm old enough to have already gone through two sizes!). She got me a bunch of stuff, including this shirt:

And in fact, this is what I'm usually doing when I wake Mommy up at 3 in the morning. Its the only way I know how to wake her up, actually. But then she feeds me and I do this:

(ok, really I go back to sleep)

Mobilization frustration

I have a new hobby these days which is: trying to crawl! I'm a little obsessed with it actually. I have been dragging myself around by my hands for a week or two now. But this does not get me around as quickly or as easily as I would like. First of all, sometimes the thing that I want is in front of me. Okay, a) sometimes I can't get myself to go forward, only backwards and b) it takes for freaking ever. So I'm like, 'Forget this! These knees have got to be good for something'.


What now? from meandertail on Vimeo

Okay! So now I've gotten myself up on my knees, now what? I have no idea. So what I do is just rock back and forth. Or stick one of my legs up and try to push off or something. So far neither of these approaches have been fruitful, but I'm optimistic. But it is REALLY frustrating right now! Its making me all grumpypants.