Here is the video I described in my last post. It makes me smile every time, but then again, so does anything with Sonia's little face.
Friday, October 22, 2010
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Laughter
Oh my dear blog readers...I really thought I could do an entry once a week, but here I have gone almost a month without a post. So much happens that I wish I could report daily, so I feel bad when those of you who live out of town have to go a long time without an update. She is almost 6 months!
Sunny has started laughing a lot more. Alan and Tammy and Jeff and I are all coming up with new ways to make her laugh because what works one day rarely works next. It is so much fun watching her crack up! I got the video below this morning while she was playing and did not know I had the camera. You will see in the video that she tend to stop playing and smiling once she knows the camera is on her...well, you would see but I cannot get the video to upload. Maybe I can put it on YouTube or something...stay tuned.
Food continues to be great fun for her. She really loves butternut squash and avocado, but has also tried peaches, oatmeal, and beans since the last post as well as little tastes of lo mien and pho. The last two came because Alan and I are not able to develop as quickly as Sonia and we forgot to bring food for her when we went out to eat. We will remember next time (I hope) because she reminds us throughout the meal what she wants and generally feels we should attend to her more. She has a point. I cannot wait for her to be old enough to eat what we are eating.
While Sonia has been a lot of fun for the four of us, she is getting pretty nervous around people she does not see as often. Alan and I have started telling her "I'll be back" when we go to a different room in the house because she often starts crying when she notices. Separation anxiety, though in her case it is more, I-have-seen-you-before-but-you-are-not-Mom/Dad/GrandmaTammy/GrandpaJeff anxiety. This causes her to stick out her lower lip and break out in hysterical crying that only returning to one of us can cure. There is actually a word for the lower lip action in Spanish, "Pucheros". It makes me both laugh and cry when I see her little pucheros. I hope this stage improves before Thanksgiving.
As the picture shows below, tummy time is no longer as tortuous. She is starting to reach for things on her side, so I think she will be rolling over in the next few weeks. After that, I will be chasing her around and have even less time to blog, but I really want to keep it up. Partly to keep everyone involved in her life, but also for selfish reasons as it is so fun to look back on these posts.
Sunny has started laughing a lot more. Alan and Tammy and Jeff and I are all coming up with new ways to make her laugh because what works one day rarely works next. It is so much fun watching her crack up! I got the video below this morning while she was playing and did not know I had the camera. You will see in the video that she tend to stop playing and smiling once she knows the camera is on her...well, you would see but I cannot get the video to upload. Maybe I can put it on YouTube or something...stay tuned.
Food continues to be great fun for her. She really loves butternut squash and avocado, but has also tried peaches, oatmeal, and beans since the last post as well as little tastes of lo mien and pho. The last two came because Alan and I are not able to develop as quickly as Sonia and we forgot to bring food for her when we went out to eat. We will remember next time (I hope) because she reminds us throughout the meal what she wants and generally feels we should attend to her more. She has a point. I cannot wait for her to be old enough to eat what we are eating.
While Sonia has been a lot of fun for the four of us, she is getting pretty nervous around people she does not see as often. Alan and I have started telling her "I'll be back" when we go to a different room in the house because she often starts crying when she notices. Separation anxiety, though in her case it is more, I-have-seen-you-before-but-you-are-not-Mom/Dad/GrandmaTammy/GrandpaJeff anxiety. This causes her to stick out her lower lip and break out in hysterical crying that only returning to one of us can cure. There is actually a word for the lower lip action in Spanish, "Pucheros". It makes me both laugh and cry when I see her little pucheros. I hope this stage improves before Thanksgiving.
As the picture shows below, tummy time is no longer as tortuous. She is starting to reach for things on her side, so I think she will be rolling over in the next few weeks. After that, I will be chasing her around and have even less time to blog, but I really want to keep it up. Partly to keep everyone involved in her life, but also for selfish reasons as it is so fun to look back on these posts.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Toys
Sunny is shining through! She is starting to show us her personality which is great fun. She is also growling. Seriously. Just this morning, she was laying on her changing table, "grrahhh, grrrrr, grrkkkk, grrrrr". You sort of have to be there, but it is so cute. She sounds kind of intense and frustrated when she makes the sound. More than anything, she likes the way it feels in her throat. That and the reaction she gets from grown-ups. It totally cracked me up this morning.
Below is a great picture of Sunny that Lesley's daughter, Holly, took while we were visiting a month ago:
Sonia is not just playing with her voice. Toys have become more and more interesting, although she is still pretty happy with faces and hands. For her, variety is a top priority. We are trying to avoid a mountain of unnecessary toys, but lucky for us, she is content with the ten or so we have on rotation.
It has been really fun introducing her to veggies and fruits. So far she has tried carrots, bananas, green beans, apples, yams, spinach, and squash. All of them except the spinach either I or Tammy just cooked and pureed. Mostly, I think the pure stuff just tastes better but I also want her to have a taste for real food. Not that I am a purist about it. We often add the rice ceral flakes and I do not hesitate to give her a jar when it is what we have. She always makes crazy faces when she is trying something for the first time so it is difficult to know what she really loves, but we tried apples and spinach enough to know she would rather avoid those two.
Of course, there is no toy like an edible toy.
Below is a great picture of Sunny that Lesley's daughter, Holly, took while we were visiting a month ago:
Sonia is not just playing with her voice. Toys have become more and more interesting, although she is still pretty happy with faces and hands. For her, variety is a top priority. We are trying to avoid a mountain of unnecessary toys, but lucky for us, she is content with the ten or so we have on rotation.
It has been really fun introducing her to veggies and fruits. So far she has tried carrots, bananas, green beans, apples, yams, spinach, and squash. All of them except the spinach either I or Tammy just cooked and pureed. Mostly, I think the pure stuff just tastes better but I also want her to have a taste for real food. Not that I am a purist about it. We often add the rice ceral flakes and I do not hesitate to give her a jar when it is what we have. She always makes crazy faces when she is trying something for the first time so it is difficult to know what she really loves, but we tried apples and spinach enough to know she would rather avoid those two.
Of course, there is no toy like an edible toy.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
First Bites
Sonia has been looking at our food almost as much as our faces when we eat, so we decided to give her some. We started with rice cereal, though from her faces you would have thought we gave her chopped liver (apologies to all you liver fans). I think she was just getting used to it because at the next meal she smiled as she ate. She tried some bananas at Grandma Tammy and Grandpa Jeff's house. Those were also met with surprise, then acceptance. She remembers to chew and swallow with about every fifth bite so most of what we give her ends up on her rather than in her. It's lots of fun!
We are trying to just boil and mush her food rather than use the jars. In that spirit, I put three carrots to boil for her. I forgot about them until I wondered where that smell was coming from. Luckily, I could scape off the bottom and they just had a slight grilled flavor. Then I tried to puree them with my immersion blender, which gave me a bunch of chunks. So out came the strainer...two hours after I put them to boil I ended up a couple tablespoons of pureed carrot. I then went to Amazon and ordered a food mill. Sonia appreciated my efforts though.
She also laughed for the first time! Alan went to pick her up at Jeff and Tammy's and she just got so overjoyed to see him, she laughed out loud. She smiles at us most mornings these days. It is such a treat to come in and see her start smiling at me in the dark when she sees me. Even though she is slow to wake up, she is happiest in the mornings. I am enjoying being back at work, but it is awfully hard to leave her when she is being so adorable.
We are trying to just boil and mush her food rather than use the jars. In that spirit, I put three carrots to boil for her. I forgot about them until I wondered where that smell was coming from. Luckily, I could scape off the bottom and they just had a slight grilled flavor. Then I tried to puree them with my immersion blender, which gave me a bunch of chunks. So out came the strainer...two hours after I put them to boil I ended up a couple tablespoons of pureed carrot. I then went to Amazon and ordered a food mill. Sonia appreciated my efforts though.
She also laughed for the first time! Alan went to pick her up at Jeff and Tammy's and she just got so overjoyed to see him, she laughed out loud. She smiles at us most mornings these days. It is such a treat to come in and see her start smiling at me in the dark when she sees me. Even though she is slow to wake up, she is happiest in the mornings. I am enjoying being back at work, but it is awfully hard to leave her when she is being so adorable.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Grass
If Sonia is cranky inside, she often relaxes and wakes up out in the sunshine. The intense light used to make her cringe and hide her face. Now she still closes her eyes but she takes little peeks to see if she can open them fully. We have been spending more time sitting in the yard. She pulls on the blades of grass. She tastes them. One day the chickens got out of the coop and were prancing around the yard but she hardly noticed that. On the other hand, she kept craning her neck to get a better view of the ruckus that the hummingbirds were making in the pine tree.
As you can tell from this photo, she is oh-so-close to laughing out loud. She gets so smilely and full of joy sometimes she can hardly make a sound. Eventually a little squeak gets out that is so close to a laugh, but just not quite.
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