I may be half British, but today I'm All-American!

Happy 4th of July!






(Can you tell Mommy is going a little nuts with the camera? I must be the most photographed baby EVER!)

Mommy's too cheap for a real photo shoot

Well, thanks for all of your well wishes! I'm feeling better now. On Saturday I felt like a poopy diaper, but by Sunday I was pretty much okay. Today I was able to go back to school, hurrah! Although when Mommy picked me up, another baby in my class was getting his temperature taken and it was 102!! So it looks like the virus is still moving!

Oh. And another thing that happened. Mommy told me that she ran into the Japanese postdoc/orthopedic surgeon that used to talk to her about her broken foot. He said that another pregnant woman at Mommy's work had probably broken her foot and that maybe Mommy could email her and give her some tips. She doesn't know if she broke her foot or not, but it is likely that she did. And if she did, she did it at 32 weeks which is EXACTLY when Mommy did. Mommy didn't have much to say to her except to try to make her laugh because really, what else can you do when you're 7 months pregnant and your foot is broken??

Mommy took some pictures of me this weekend for my 6 month pics. She's too cheap to take me to the mall for pictures! Look at how well you can see my teeth now when I smile! Also, look how well I can sit up by myself. Mommy and Daddy don't even need to spot me anymore.

Has it really been 6 months?

Studs


I'm late!


First picture!


Going home from the hospital


One month old! I can smile in response to your smile.


Two months old! I can move my arms to hit stuff, sometimes get the hand to stay in my mouth and I just learned how to hold something in the hand!


Three months old! I smile and do the silent laugh when you do something funny and I don't hate tummy time so much anymore!


Four months old! I can move things from one hand to the other!


Five months old! I got my first two teeth! They just broke through! I giggle and I love to watch my doggie and kitties.


Six months old! I'm dragging myself all over the place with my arms and getting up on my hands and knees (or my hands and toes!). I'm totally going to crawl soon! And I can say Da now!

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!