6 months

It's hard to believe that our little Girl is 6 months old (half a year) already.. Time is sure going by quickly, I almost wish time would slow down a bit.. ;-) She has blessed our life so much over the past 6 months, brought so much more joy and laughter into our lives.. We are so grateful that God has chosen to give her to us and at this time.. She is definitely a blessing and we thank God for her everyday.. I failed to mention on the last blog a couple of things so I thought I'd add it on here.. 1 thing I forgot to mention was that she loves sleeping on her belly the moment we lay her down she flips right over onto her belly and she's a mover while she sleeps as well we've noticed that since a few days after she was born when she was sleeping in her bassinet, but now that she has more room in her crib she moves all over. 2nd thing I forgot to mention was that she LOVES the itsy bitsy spider song, we do motions and everything. ;-) It especially helps her when she's crabby in the car I'll start singing that song to her and she stops crying and just listens it's so funny.. So we try singing it to her to calm her down and so far it seems to work.. She had her 6 month check up on Wednesday.. She is up to 16.4lbs is what they told us, but 16.2 is what they wrote down.. so she's in the 49th percentile, she is 26.7 inches in the 78 percentile. She was given 3 shots and a oral one again.. She did SO much better this time around with her shots, no fever and not crabby, so much easier this time around.. Daddy made sure to tell her nurse he didn't like the way the nurse did it last time and so this time they did a much better job.. Dr. Said that everything looks good and that she's doing everything she should be doing at her age, expect for pulling herself up with the help of us holding her hands of course.. She said she's advanced and doing a 9 month thing and that she thinks she'll be an early walker.. Over the past month we've gone though quite a bit with her.. We took her in to see if she had an ear infection since she had been really crabby and playing with her ear and pulling on it, Dr. said that she was fine no ear infection and maybe she's pulling on her ear from teething since the ear and throat are all connected to her jaw it can cause issues... She also had her first cold it wasn't to bad she just got stuffy.. It bothered me more then it did her.. She was just her normal happy self doing all her normal things and me being a paranoid mommy was worried about her, I didn't think she was old enough to get a cold already.. It lasted about a week and we had to suck her nose out with the nose sucker thingy(not sure what it's actually called , Gil says its a Nasal Aspirator. lol) She hated it and still hates it, but I guess I don't blame her. We put saline drops in her nose and got her a better humidifier and some Vicks pads to put in her humidifier, lifted up her mattress to help her sleep better and breathe as well... after about a week of all that she seemed to be getting better, but then we noticed her squeaking whenever she would breathe in and after a couple of days of it just randomly happening we decided since our clinic was closed we would call urgent care and talk to a nurse to see if it's something to be worried about if we need to bring her in, they decided they wanted to see her, so we brought her in and the Dr. listened to her lungs and said he didn't hear anything that we should be worried about. He said that this age they worry about RSV, pneumonia, etc. after checking her out he said she seemed good, if we get worried to count her breathing and whatnot. She seems to be doing better now with it and not as often during the day. Just as we thought she was getting better, she started back up with her cold again.. Ugh.. She doesn't seem as stuffy as when she first got it, but she's stuffy again poor baby... so back at doing everything we were doing all over again to get her better.. I'm really hoping that she doesn't end up with Asthma and Allergies like I have and be stuffy most of the year..(Gil says She'll be just fine, I think he's the optimist around here. Lol) She's been fully holding her head up, we are still working on her sitting up skills, she just doesn't like to sit up she'd rather stand (with our help) then sit.. She's so close to sitting by herself though she did it a few times for a few seconds so I'm sure she will master that soon... She is a crawler well sort of.. She does the Army crawl, doesn't lift her tummy off the floor yet, but she still gets to were she needs to go in a hurry.. My favorite is when she eyes something up and crawls to it and we tell her "No" and "Come back" and "Get this other toy", she stops and looks at you and smiles and then heads the direction she was going for... She's such a little stinker but we LOVE her! We've started giving her some baby food, so far she's eaten sweet potatoes, green beans, carrots and peas and she LOVES it. she eats it so good.. we tried more of the cereal, but she just doesn't seems to like it as much as her veggies, Her Dr. said to give her veggies in the morning since she doesn't like the cereal..(Gil said to try Frosted Flakes, but the Dr. said "NO"...Now Gils sad...Lol) She likes to watch us eat and sometimes we look over and her and it looks like she's trying to chew it's so cute.. She LOVES her jumper toy, we catch her jumping in it and she picks up her feet off the ground and swings for a couple seconds, it's hilarious.. We had to lift up her Jumper to the next level.. She still LOVES listening to Daddy Sing and play his guitar for her.. She has a high pitch voice sometimes when she talks almost like she's found her voice and likes to hear it.. Ha.. She is holding her bottle got to help her sometimes holding it up, she loves to grab our faces while she drinks her bottle or even I've caught her staring at her hands and watching her move them almost like she's waving... She has a Favorite song that Gil sings to her, as soon as she hears it she just has the biggest smile on her face.. She also has a favorite commercial that she loves it's that Good-Will Halloween commercial.. She's also been learning to Mimic noises that we make..(Gil says Boo-Ya!) Can you tell I had Gil proof read this he added big words and things about himself.. Haha.. We just got in her High chair the other day.. She looks so tiny in it, but it's so much easy to feed her in it since she sits more still and up higher.. We are gonna try to get some of those puff things for her to try while she sits in her high chair.. The only thing with the tray being there it feels like she's so far away.. We have a baby food processer and are thinking about trying to make our own baby food we shall see how well that works.. Ha.. Here are a few pictures we took of her Wednesday morning at my Aunts house before we took her in for her Dr. Appointment... ;-) A few of our favorites from a photo shoot this morning..

5 months

Another Month down...Elycia is Officially 5 months old (a whole handful) as of Sunday...She is growing up so quickly and too fast...Over this past month she has learned quite a bit...She finally remembered how to roll from her belly to her back and she's rolling all around the floor sometimes...We lay her down on her play mat and next thing we know she is over by the couch...Ha...We tried giving her some cereal. She tried Oatmeal cereal and the first day she did really good, the next day she did fine, day 3 she did ok, and day 4 she didn't want anything to do with it. So we decided to try a different cereal, turns out we were supposed to start her on Rice Cereal first...So we tried it and she's still not sure what to think about it...sometimes she'll do ok and other days she just doesn't want anything to do with it...But we keep trying to give it to her and hopefully she'll enjoy it soon...Ha...Learning more and more to grab things, she grabs at faces, especially Gil's glasses, toys, just anything she can get her hands on. One night Gil was trying to put her to sleep and she grabbed at his face and started chewing on his nose...It was hilarious...She still does that every once in a while...Not crawling yet, but I have a feeling it could be soonish...She seems to know how to move her legs, but can't figure out how to move her arms. I see her trying as she lays on her tummy, grabbing at her mat and pulling it towards her...She can turn herself around and kinda scoot. She's sleeping really good in her crib...Some days she sleeps til like 9 or 930 and other days she wakes herself up around 5 and goes back to sleep around 7 or 8...Just depends on how she feels I guess Ha...The trick sometimes is trying to get her to go to sleep it sometimes will take us 3 hours to get her to sleep and sometimes she will go to sleep early like 7 or 8. Guess it just depends on her mood...lol. We've been trying to keep her up past 7 so she will sleep early and its been helping sometimes...She's using her tongue more when she talks you can see her trying to use it...Still loves sticking her tongue out and chewing on Gil's fingers...She's been a pain to change her diaper since she's moving all around and doesn't sit still, she even tries pulling her diaper up to eat it when we are wiping her butt...By the way, I Forgot to mention last month that we moved her up to a size 2 diaper...She still likes to stand up so we are gonna go buy her an excer saucer so she can stand up. She's not a big fan of her pacis lately...Getting more vocal every day. There has been a couple of times she was crabby and didn't want anything so I laid her in her crib and turned her Lions (mobile) on, she will just lay there and watch them go around and around...She loves them...but when they stopped then she would cry, so i'd pick her up and she'd be all calm. She started kinda holding her bottle at least for a little while. Loves to scream when she talks. I am going to be joining a MOPS group the last meeting was canceled due to the Church was hosting some evacuees from all the flooding that was going on. There are some play dates scheduled so I might take Elycia to those. Still working a few hours a week it's been going ok. other then that nothing is really new with me. Gil is working, doing some online classes and been playing and singing for Elycia she loves it. She will just lay there and listen or move around. Still trying to decided what Elycia should be for Halloween and what Gil and I should dress up as...I thought it would be cool if we could find a theme that we could all dress up as...