last couple of days. Here is a picture of her bellying up to the
coffee table on our living room! She even began experimenting with
taking a step yesterday, but her dismount still needs some work.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Belly up to the coffee table!
last couple of days. Here is a picture of her bellying up to the
coffee table on our living room! She even began experimenting with
taking a step yesterday, but her dismount still needs some work.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
broke the streak
Charli woke up at 4:30 last night, just like she used to, after just about a whole week of sleeping through the night. I just read somewhere that kids become able to sleep through the night after some neurological development; it doesn't have to do with eating enough or anything like that. Charli must have developed that neuron last Wednesday, but now it's resting.Charli's also got a fully developed object permanence neuron. She loves peekaboo - it makes her shout with laughter. We particularly like to play after meals. She also looks for things she's dropped. Particularly during meals, when she's supposed to be looking at me, lest I stick the spoon in her ear.
Charli's favorite book is Pat the Bunny, both for eating and for reading. She can do most of the things Paul and Judy can: she pats the bunny, plays peekaboo, reads Judy's book (well, she flips through it anyway), feels Daddy's scratchy face, puts her finger through Mummy's ring. She doesn't care much about smelling the flowers. Thanks for the book, Sally W.! Charli loves it so much, I've already had to tape it all up before she digests it.Paul and Judy don't play banjo, but that would be pretty hard to get into a book. Fortunately, Brian's got one.
Monday, July 28, 2008
RAR! (2)
Charli's getting her other bottom tooth! I just saw it this morning, although I can't quite feel it yet. She's also continued to sleep all night. It must be the new room...
Saturday, July 26, 2008
zzzzzz... (3)
Slept all night AGAIN! A person could get used to this... She actually got up quite a while before we (Brian) went in to get her. She just woke up and talked to herself for a bit.
It's been a gorgeous Saturday here. We were up pretty early, so we went to Stacks for breakfast and ate outside. Charli had yogurt and waffle and toast with us, and had a 10 minute nap on the way home. We tried to put her down for longer once we got home, but that didn't work at all. Then in the afternoon we went downtown to the Container Store to get some bins to put more of Charli's stuff in, and then we just decided to walk all the way home. I mean, it's REALLY nice out. We stopped at Delessio for more food and ate outside again, then stopped by the comic shop and caught Al just as he was leaving for San Diego. Now we are home and it's time to clean up some more of Charli's new room!
It's been a gorgeous Saturday here. We were up pretty early, so we went to Stacks for breakfast and ate outside. Charli had yogurt and waffle and toast with us, and had a 10 minute nap on the way home. We tried to put her down for longer once we got home, but that didn't work at all. Then in the afternoon we went downtown to the Container Store to get some bins to put more of Charli's stuff in, and then we just decided to walk all the way home. I mean, it's REALLY nice out. We stopped at Delessio for more food and ate outside again, then stopped by the comic shop and caught Al just as he was leaving for San Diego. Now we are home and it's time to clean up some more of Charli's new room!
dinner
Charli generally dislikes dinner (*gasp* Is she really mine?). She cries when I put her in her chair, but then she stops. Then I try to feed her some vegetables and meat, which she resists. This involves lots of arm flailing, rubbing of eyes, and eventually crying. Then, while she's screaming, if I feed her some fruit, she looks very surprised and eats it and wants more, but I don't want to feed her only fruit! So I try to sneak some vegetables in after a while - not so effective. She might eat one bite, make terrible faces, and then start spitting it out and getting back to her regular avoidance tactics. Very discouraging, especially for someone who thinks her child is starving. Here's a new thing she recently started doing while I'm trying to feed her:
There is light on the horizon, though! I have finally figured out several things:
1) Charli really, really hates chunks in her food. She doesn't like her food to be too thick, either (see chicken). I have started pureeing her food until it's way past the point where I think it makes a difference, and actually, it makes a difference. For vegetables, anyway - it doesn't matter what the texture of fruit is, she still loves it.
2) Frozen food! We went to Trader Joe's, and I got all kinds of frozen organic fruits and vegetables. Now all I have to do is defrost some of them, blend them up, and voila - baby food! I still cook up the meats beforehand, and add them to whatever I'm making, and it seems to be working out pretty well. It looks and tastes way better than most of the jarred baby foods, especially the peas. I made her chicken and peas and corn the other day, and she tolerated it really well.
3) She hates bland! I guess she is my child. I made her chicken and this green bean mix most recently, and she hated it. I hated it too. I tried it and it was so bland I could barely eat it. In addition, the texture was very grainy - green beans don't puree nearly as well as peas and corn. I tried to feed it to her anyway. I fed her one bite, and she hated it. So I put some cream and salt in, and then she actually liked it. She opened her mouth for more, but the texture was not improved, and she couldn't get over that. After a few more bites, she just was not having it. Today I fixed that by adding potatoes and butter, and it's a lot better, and she's eating it.
4) Oddly enough, there are certain songs that Charli will eat to. I keep trying more, but so far, only the Monchichi jingle (you know the one: Monchichi, Monchichi, oh so cute and cuddly... thumb... mouth... sweet... blah blah) and Omobolasire (Simon and Milo) work. The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas does not work. Neither does the Rainbow Connection, Cemetery Gates, Twinkle Twinkle or ABC, Frere Jacques or Row Row Row Your Boat. Very strange about Monchichi and Omobolosire, though - I've used them repeatedly; they work every time. She might eat another 15 spoonfuls while I'm singing those songs.
There is light on the horizon, though! I have finally figured out several things:
1) Charli really, really hates chunks in her food. She doesn't like her food to be too thick, either (see chicken). I have started pureeing her food until it's way past the point where I think it makes a difference, and actually, it makes a difference. For vegetables, anyway - it doesn't matter what the texture of fruit is, she still loves it.
2) Frozen food! We went to Trader Joe's, and I got all kinds of frozen organic fruits and vegetables. Now all I have to do is defrost some of them, blend them up, and voila - baby food! I still cook up the meats beforehand, and add them to whatever I'm making, and it seems to be working out pretty well. It looks and tastes way better than most of the jarred baby foods, especially the peas. I made her chicken and peas and corn the other day, and she tolerated it really well.
3) She hates bland! I guess she is my child. I made her chicken and this green bean mix most recently, and she hated it. I hated it too. I tried it and it was so bland I could barely eat it. In addition, the texture was very grainy - green beans don't puree nearly as well as peas and corn. I tried to feed it to her anyway. I fed her one bite, and she hated it. So I put some cream and salt in, and then she actually liked it. She opened her mouth for more, but the texture was not improved, and she couldn't get over that. After a few more bites, she just was not having it. Today I fixed that by adding potatoes and butter, and it's a lot better, and she's eating it.
4) Oddly enough, there are certain songs that Charli will eat to. I keep trying more, but so far, only the Monchichi jingle (you know the one: Monchichi, Monchichi, oh so cute and cuddly... thumb... mouth... sweet... blah blah) and Omobolasire (Simon and Milo) work. The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas does not work. Neither does the Rainbow Connection, Cemetery Gates, Twinkle Twinkle or ABC, Frere Jacques or Row Row Row Your Boat. Very strange about Monchichi and Omobolosire, though - I've used them repeatedly; they work every time. She might eat another 15 spoonfuls while I'm singing those songs.
Friday, July 25, 2008
zzzzzz... (2)
Slept all night AGAIN last night, but got up a little after 6am. Brian played with her this time.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
zzzzzz...
Charli slept all night last night, from 8pm to 7am. Hooray!
Charli has been pulling herself up on everything she can reach, and she's pretty good at it. Brian likes to make her a nest of pillows covered by a blanket on the couch, and she just rolls around in there and climbs and pulls herself up on every side, and has a great time. She's more mobile all the time, doing more crawling and less worming now. We got some stairwell gates as a gift after she was born, and I took them out, only to find that they 1) mount directly to the wall, so you have to drill holes for them, and 2) do not mount directly to our walls, because you are supposed to mount them between 2" and 3" from the floor, but not on the baseboards, and our baseboards are about 6" tall. So I think we will have to find some wood pieces to put between the top part of the gate and the wall so that we can mount the bottom part against the baseboard, and we have to get some longer screws. What a pain.
Actually, Charli slept almost all night 2 nights ago, too. She got up around 5, and I fed her a bottle and put her back down again around 5:15 or 5:30. She got up again around 6:15, and I'm not sure if she really went back to bed in between. LOVE the new nursery - I got up, took the baby out of the crib, and we went and sat in her play area, where she proceeded to pretty much play by herself for about an hour, while I sat on the floor with her and watched and dozed. It wasn't as good as sleeping, but it was better than lying in our bed with her pounding on my face. :)
Charli has been pulling herself up on everything she can reach, and she's pretty good at it. Brian likes to make her a nest of pillows covered by a blanket on the couch, and she just rolls around in there and climbs and pulls herself up on every side, and has a great time. She's more mobile all the time, doing more crawling and less worming now. We got some stairwell gates as a gift after she was born, and I took them out, only to find that they 1) mount directly to the wall, so you have to drill holes for them, and 2) do not mount directly to our walls, because you are supposed to mount them between 2" and 3" from the floor, but not on the baseboards, and our baseboards are about 6" tall. So I think we will have to find some wood pieces to put between the top part of the gate and the wall so that we can mount the bottom part against the baseboard, and we have to get some longer screws. What a pain.Actually, Charli slept almost all night 2 nights ago, too. She got up around 5, and I fed her a bottle and put her back down again around 5:15 or 5:30. She got up again around 6:15, and I'm not sure if she really went back to bed in between. LOVE the new nursery - I got up, took the baby out of the crib, and we went and sat in her play area, where she proceeded to pretty much play by herself for about an hour, while I sat on the floor with her and watched and dozed. It wasn't as good as sleeping, but it was better than lying in our bed with her pounding on my face. :)
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