HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!

  

 

Our little bub is almost 7 months!

Not to be cliché, but where is the time going!? It seriously feels like yesterday that Dana and I were racing  to Bellevue at 1am to meet Allie… and now she’s climbing me like a rock wall, wiggling her way around “AllieLand”, and slowly transitioning into only taking 2 naps a day. She recognizes and smiles at people she knows, and gives the stink eye to strangers (until she warms up of course). Her hair goes past her shoulder blades in the back, and beyond her nose in the front… It’s all things that developmentally should occur, but it still amazes me to watch her go through it all.

Anyway, here is a video of Allie out in our side yard from the other day during a photo session, along with one of the photos.  Enjoy!

An Eating Machine

Allie has been on solids for about three weeks now.  She has done so well with a variety of flavors and textures.  So far she has enjoyed apples, pears, bananas, apricots, sweet potatoes, and squash.  She has had mixed reviews on avocado, peas, and carrots. 

I’ve started making my own baby food using organic fruits and veggies.  It’s really easy to do and I think it’s cheaper.  The only drawback is that it’s not as fast as popping open a jar, but I feel good knowing exactly what’s being fed to her and I can control the consistency.  It’s also better for the environment because I’m not getting rid of all those glass jars!  This weekend, I plan on visiting the local farmers market to get fresh local produce and tomorrow we’re going to try some peaches.  Yum!

Allie in May 2010

Allie was a busy girl this month.  She had a visit from her cousins, Maggie and Elise, and also went to Florida where she saw her cousin Katie.  She also started eating solids and began using her big girl car seat.  Her 6 month doctor visit revealed that she weighed just shy of 21 pounds and was over 27 inches long.  Click the photo for a month of pictures!

Allie eats rice cereal! Yum!!

Today, Allie had her first taste of rice cereal and she loved it!!!  Here’s the video to prove it!

Videos Galore

Our little goose-goose is almost 6 months! Can you believe it!? She is starting to interact with us more and more each day, and is really a fun loving little girl through and through. Here are a few videos of Allie from the past week.

Favorite Toys

At five and a half months, these are Allie’s favorite things:

Look, Mom, no hands… wait, is that a dog walking by?

Allie began sitting up on her own just a few days after she turned 5 months.  This video was taken the first day she began demonstrating sitting independently.  She was doing really well until Roxy walked by and she just wanted to watch the dog! haha!  She’s started having a real interest in the dog and even reaches out to touch her.  It’s really cute.

A Month of Photos - April

Click the photo to see 30 days of Allie!

Bird Update…

We have a second baby as of late this afternoon.  His name is Ferdinand.  2 more to go! 

Below is a picture taken this morning.  You can see Cecil feeding Sonya.  You can also see Big Red watching the action.

5 Months Old

Yesterday Allie became 5 months old.  Too old if you ask me!  This month she began really reaching for things.  She started gaining interest in faces and loves to reach out for your chin or nose.  She also started getting her two bottom teeth.  Luckily, she never got too irritable from teething and didn’t  end up waking up during the night.  She’s starting to tripod sit, but much prefers to be standing.  When you get her into a sitting position she'll only stay like that for a few seconds and then she’ll hurl herself  backwards in an attempt to stand.  I have a feeling that we’ll have an early walker.  Kevin and I have continued to take a daily picture of her, so we’ll have the month of April up in a few days!

On a side note, our house has become an animal sanctuary.  We live across from a pond so we always have ducks and geese walking up on our lawn.  We’ve also found turtles on our steps.  Then we have a neighbors cat that is constantly traipsing through the backyard… always on the prowl.  We used to have a skunk living under our back deck, but the skunk got evicted by a fox who then decided to make a family.  Now we have a bird who decide to make a nest in my hanging plant on the front porch.  This bird has since became family.  We’ve named her Cecil Martinez (I named her Cecil and Kevin thought that name sounded Hispanic so he gave her the last name of Martinez).   She had four eggs in her nest and we were able to watch her from one of our windows.  Then, couple of nights ago, Kevin mounted his webcam to the porch and we were able to watch her on our TV.  Tonight, one of her babies was born.  We named the little one Sonya.  While watching the new mom and her baby, we also saw the dad (nicknamed “Big Red”) stop by to drop off some food.  This is a picture taken from our webcam video.

Obviously, the plant has died.  I didn’t want to disturb nature.  Hopefully we’ll have three more babies by morning!