It's a good thing Charli is so much hardier than our plants. Crying is definitely a survival skill; I'd hate to see what her condition would be if she merely wilted quietly.
Well, just as the emailed pictures dropped off considerably when Brian went back to work, the blog posting is also having a drought now that I've gone back to work (good thing Brian can post right from his iPhone...). Lots of things are happening, but now I'm so tired all the time I pass out in the evening before I have a chance to blog. Add to that the fact that I have been trying to migrate computers, which makes it hard to update our website, and we have a complete lack of communication with the Charli fans in various parts of the country. So sorry!
For her 5 month birthday, Charli gave me a gift: she slept from about 8pm until 7:25am. Normally Brian gets up in the wee hours to give Charli a bottle, but he is currently feeling under the weather, so he slept in a different room so as not to give the baby a cold. I usually sleep through the 4am feeding, and I thought I probably would last night too, but I figured if she really started wailing I would definitely wake up. I was out until 7:25am, at which time I realized Charli was awake and perfectly happy, making noise and wiggling around in her crib. Hooray!
Charli has adapted well to our work schedules. Indeed, I don't think she even notices that we don't spend the day with her, because she is having much more fun with her nannies than she ever has with us. Nina blows bubbles and fingerpaints with her 
(see Charli's first piece of artwork, currently hanging on our door because our refrigerator doesn't stick to magnets), and lets her jump in Annabella's jumper. Maria takes her on the swings at the park and reads her books and successfully puts her down for naps. It's enough to make a mother feel inadequate!
So many accomplishments since our last post! Charli is sitting up much better now. She can support herself, although her balance is not so great and she falls over after a little bit (it's not so bad, Grandpa Jerry!). She held her bottle after the ballgame, but she can't get it back into her mouth if it falls out. She had a good session eating her toes after she collapsed onto them after sitting up for a while. She also had a good session of thumb sucking, although now she is back to
sucking on all of her fingers individually and together. She has now eaten oatmeal, butternut squash, sweet potatos, and peas. She might be slightly allergic to the butternut squash - a day or two after we gave it to her, she developed a rash over most of her body. It didn't seem to bother her, fortunately, and I can't say for sure that's what caused it. Now it's gone, and it's left her skin a little drier than usual, so I am dousing her in lotion each night; it helps a lot. Next time we have butternut squash, I'll give her some more and see if the same thing happens. She regularly rolls to the left now, too (still no front to back).
We also had a lovely visit with Kelly, who came out last Thursday and just left yesterday. Any family resemblance there? :) We got off to a bit of a rough start, as neither Brian nor I was home when Kelly got to the front door... I thought she was arriving in the evening, but I was wrong; she arrived around 1:30 in the afternoon, while I was at lunch with Daisy - oops! But we found each other and everything worked out OK. We ate a lot of breakfast, went to a party in Palo Alto, and went to a couple of wineries in Napa. It was a lovely weekend; we have to try to get out to St. Louis soon, I think.So that's all for now. I did manage to update the website; there's lots of new pictures now!
2 comments:
Great blog, and I love all the new pictures. I will have to snag one for my desktop. I understand about that sitting up and falling over thing. I do that sometimes in my chair when I get a little sleepy.
Five months; where does the time go? Any time you want to come to St. Louis, we will be here waiting.
I am getting home Thusday from the hospital, and can start working a few hours a day the next week. There is still a possibility the June visit in CA can happen. I will keep you posted.
Oh my gosh--Thank you, thank you for all the precious pictures. Happy five month birthday to Charli!! It was a beautiful warm spring day here, and Jerry is making excellent progress, so our world is settling down considerably. Jerry is being discharged tomorrow morning from the hospital. He is back to walking with a cane- no walker or wheelchair in the room, and his spirits are high!! There is still quite a bit of therapy in his future, but he is hopeful that he will be back to 100%. He is working very hard. Thanks for the wonderful blog and for catching us up with Charli's exciting progress. She is too precious for words. You are doing a fine job. Hugs to all--Mambaw
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