5 Months Down!

Here we are, five months into this parenting thing and we are still figuring things out. Dan has been starting to feel better, just in time for Julia to be coming down with her second daycare cold. Hopefully we won't catch this one. The last one threw us for such a loop. We are also hoping that this cold does not result in another ear infection for Julia. Here are some home-measured five month stats: weight 15 lbs, 10 oz; height 26 in; smiles: always large, but not always freely given. She has also started to have some little teeth budding in those bottom gums. Neither Dan or I can remember when we had our teeth first come in, so we are going to assume she is right on track on the tooth front. They haven't given her alot of trouble yet, although she was sent home from daycare for being inconsolable. We are not sure if the teeth were the culprit though, because she had also broken out in a rash the day before. Apparently babies are constantly getting strange rashes...not too comforting though since she can be sent home for mysterious rashes.

Tomorrow we take our first plane flight with Julia. We are travelling to Baltimore to see the Beusch and Klein families and to celebrate Patrick and Lizzie getting married on Saturday. Aunt Anne finished Julia's dress and it is waiting at Nannie Klein's house. I am still working on the sweater that I started back in July. So far it still resembles a tube top, but I am optimistic. Maybe overly so, but optimistic nonetheless. Our bags are packed, the pacifiers are washed, and we are just racking our brains trying to think of anything else we might need to do before we can go to bed.

Julia has been getting more and more distracted when she is nursing lately. Which translates into waking up at least once during the night to eat. Mike at daycare says that she has also been pretty distracted for him, which makes me feel a little better. She has been trying hard to attempt rolling over, but is not quite there yet. She has started to scoot herself forward though when on her tummy...she ends up dragging her face along the floor, which doesn't look too comfortable. And finally, we bought her an excersaucer which she just loves. When we picked her up from daycare today she spent more time saying goodbye to the exersaucer there than goodbye to Mike. Anyway, some pictures of the cute one...

Dan and Julia on our picnic in Parsons Gardens

Trying to eat those keys, while making sure the beaver doesn't escape

Gramma and Grandpa sent all of this for me?!?!

Touch your toes!

20 Weeks Old!

Well, our luck just keeps getting better and better. Julia finally started sleeping through the night again, but only because her ear drum ruptured and relieved that incredible pain she must have been suffering from. Which explains why we had a very cranky babe in the evenings and one who was not smiling when she woke up in the morning. So she is getting through her first ear infection. After weathering her first cold and stomach virus, this is much harder. Mostly because it involves giving her medicine three times a day. And most of the medicine ends up on her shirt, my sweater, the burp cloth, her neck folds, etc. But she must be feeling better because we have our smiling babe in the morning again. She has definitely been hungrier as well, waking the last two nights to eat ravenously. I tell her that waking is okay, as long as it is to eat and not just get back to sleep. Hopefully she will start eating more at daycare and stop the waking thing.
Because Mom and Dad are still suffering from the head colds of last week. Actually, I think that I got a new one, but I cannot tell the difference. But she is in such better spirits now that I don't mind getting up to feed her once at night. Plus it is usually 8 hours since her last feeding of the evening so she is still technically sleeping through the night. But things are getting better, if only slowly. The second invasion of the fleas has only resulted in seven bites on my person, much better than the 50 I got the first time. We get to go on a mini-vacation in three weeks for a wedding, where Julia will wear a really cute dress made by my ever so talented Aunt Anne. She designed and made my wedding dress, which was spectacular, so I know that she will do a good job. I've started on my sweater for said wedding and am desparately hoping that I finish it in time. I might have to start staying up later to work on it. We're about to finish the Sunday crossword, which never happens. And the weather here has been great!

Anyway, here are some more pictures for your viewing pleasure....

So thoughtful and pensive...she's wondering when is the milk coming?

Why do they make me ride in this thing?

I'm all ready for school! Let's go while I'm still happy!