Our baby girl is 5 months old. Although she's not progressing as quickly as Cohen with the physical milestones, she's blowing him out of the water on the social milestones. It must be a girl thing! She loves to "talk"...actually, she never stops! My favorite thing in the world right now is to hear her cute little cackle. I'll have to get it on video and post it soon.
Well, Channing is almost 5 months old, so we decided it was about time to start her on some cereal. You can click here to see the blog post from Cohen's first cereal experience and compare. It's funny when I looked back, I have them both sitting in the exact same seat in the exact same spot in the kitchen! This must be where I instinctly feel like it's the best place to have a messy activity in our house because I did not do that on purpose.
Overall, it wasn't too bad of an experience. I never expect them to actually ingest anything on these first tries with solid food. We call it "spoon practice" around here!
Wow... what a whirlwind of a weekend! Easter is always obviously a busy week at work, but thankfully we were able to fit lots of family time in as well.
I opened up the door to my office on Thursday morning to this...
My staff had found these big lawn blow-ups and put them in my office. This one was in my chair...
Sheila (known as "Lale" by Cohen and Channing) bought these furry boots for Channing when she was born. They finally fit her and we put them on her with this weekend's cold snap!
My baby is growing up!
This week I used a gift card I got from my Dad and bought a special new surprise for my kitchen. Can you guess what it is?
Let me zoom out just a little...
If you have any great recipes for cookies, breads, etc that I can try out with my new mixer, please leave them in my comments. I'm dying to try some new recipes!
Love this picture! Like father, like son...
Mom Barr (Chad's grandmother) and Nana came and stayed with the kids on Tuesday night so that I could go to Chad's playoff game. Side note: They lost the game... bummer! But secretly (which, I guess it's not secretly since I'm putting it on my blog) I've never been so happy for basketball season to be over! Channing was born on the night of the first game of the season. We're ready to have daddy home. Ok, back from my side note... Here is Mom Barr with the kiddos.
Little Chan-Chan (that's her newest nickname) turned 3 months over a week ago, but unfortunately for her 3 month birthday gift she got RSV (and then gave it to her mommy). So, getting a 3 month picture has not been at the top of our priority list.
When we brought her home from the NICU we knew that we were going to have to be very careful with her. We tried to keep her out of the "elements" during cold and flu season, but the virus seemed to find it's way to her anyway. We've been doing a lot of breathing treatments and just trying to keep her out of the hospital. She's been a trooper. We've had a lot of help from my cousin Paige (thanks Paiger!) She's been a lifesaver.
Please ignore her outfit in this picture. Changing her clothes is not something I like to try and conquer right now. It's hard for her to breathe when she lays flat on her back so we try and only change her diaper when we absolutely have to and just leave her in her nightgown all day. We also have her sleep sitting up in her carseat so she can breathe. It's funny that she looks so chunky in this picture. She's still a little peanut and doesn't even weigh as much as her daddy did when he was born yet!
Look at that smile!
