Keeping up

So I seem to be lagging behind in posts, like a day behind on updating events, what not...it's sorta hard keeping up recently especially with all that's been going on.

We celebrated daddy's b-day early on Sunday and had some friends over. We had cake, cookies, & ice cream. The adults had fun chatting while all 3 little infant girls had fun rolling, sitting, and playing. Alas, I didn't get a picture cuz I was too busy hostessing. There was the friend that's 8 days older than Hannah and the other friend that's a month younger than Hannah. The other kids went outside on the playground and had fun too.

So she's been getting to bed later...partly due to mommy's fault. And she's not napping well during the day. What's new? But Sunday night, she did totally and completely just conck out while nursing at night. She just fell asleep and into a deep sleep. She hasn't done that in awhile.

So I feel a bit stressed about getting ready for this trip. It's 3 weeks overseas, and I've never travelled overseas with an infant before. Plus Hannah & I have never left daddy for this long - ever. My energies have been pulled ever which way b/c Hannah's been rather needy recently and all the other stuff going on in my life (which I won't delve into since this is Hannah's blog). She doesn't like to be left alone and needs to be able to see me at all times. I would wear her in the baby carrier to get stuff done, but she's heavy and hurts my back. Plus her legs/thighs are getting too big for the openings. She's rather plump in the legs.

Tonight she ate a ton of solids (relatively~1.5oz? - probably b/c she was really hungry too). She actually even opened up her mouth wide and moved her head forward to take the spoon into her mouth. AND she swallowed the food, rather than pushing them out with her tongue. yay! I think she likes squash b/c she's been eating it willingly recently without spitting it out. She's been much more interested in solids since eating those little puff things (so probably it's not just the squash - but more developmental). I forgot to add on the last post that she ate a ton of little puffs on Saturday and Sunday. They've helped her to learn to chew/mash with her tongue before swallowing, which she quickly learned after gagging a few times. The puffs help her work on her fine motor skills and finger dexterity. Though she hasn't completely figured out to let go of the puff each time after she's gotten it into her mouth. So sometimes they come out stuck between her index finger and thumb. She does have a mean grip. It's much stronger than one would expect.

This morning, after hearing her fussy cries, I found that she had did pulled herself up into standing position after I'd just barely left her crawling and rolling around in her playroom. She was holding onto the diaper box in her playroom, but didn't know what else to do or where to go, so was whining. It was amusing.

Here's a pic of her from the shrimp boil on Saturday doing her "squinty smile" that's been her trend recently. And a pic of her with daddy.