Have finally gone private

Hi lovely readers :)

I've officially gone private, as you can see. I was waiting a while to make sure anyone who wanted to sign up has done so. My decision to go private was just something I felt like doing. I didn't feel comfortable with pictures of Gabriella potentially floating around in cyberspace. So, here we are...

Updates with us: Gabriella is much better. Actually, I didn't blog it, but most of you know that her congestion pushed up into her ears and she got an ear infection. We're almost done with our antibiotics and Gabriella is back to her usual adorable self. There will be plenty of pictures taken this weekend as we celebrate Christmas with my in-laws (joy of all joys). Despite hating them with the fire of a thousand suns, I will grin and bear this visit b/c we leave to see my family in CA next Wednesday, for 11 glorious days. I can't wait!!

I am in the process of pump weaning. I was pumping 5 times a day, at about 35-40oz, and I am down to 2 a day. Today is my 1st attempt at only 2 pumpings. I've been dropping a pumping every 3 days, but I want to try and only do 2 days of 2x pumping and see if I can go to just 1 quickly and then stop. I really want to avoid taking my pump with me on vacation, but certainly will if I can't finish things up by then.

Going Private

Just feel the need to make the blog private. Send me your email address if you'd like to be added at mana82@sbcglobal.net. I know there are plenty of peeps out there who connect to my blog via someone else's and I do the same all the time. So, please feel free to email me :)

Ringing in the half year with a virus :(

My dear, sweet girl was sick for the 1st time this weekend. It was pretty much a cold. She was running a fever and congested when I picked her up from daycare on Friday night. Yesterday she slept most of the day, was congested, and had a fever in the morning and evening. She hasn't had a fever in 24 hours (nothing over a rectal temp of 100.5). Today she is much less congested. Her congestion sounds like its more in between her nose and throat now; its just rattling back there where I can't suck it out. Gabriella was in better spirits today and pretty much back to normal minus being a little on the tired side. I'm guessing she'll be good as new tomorrow morning. Oh and she officially HATES the bulb syringe!

It was so unbelievably hard to see her be uncomfortable. All I wanted to do was just hold her 24/7.

Hopefully she'll completely kick this out of her system really soon and we'll be back to happy-pappy baby.

My sweetheart even smiled for me so I could get a pic to commemorate 6 months :)

Half a year...my oh my!

I cannot believe that my baby is 6 months old! Well, she will be on Monday at least. Today we had her 6 month check up and everything looks great. Gabriella is 18 lbs 3 oz (90th percentile) and 26.25 in (75th percentile). She's been on those same growth paths since the 2 month mark. Her pedi is very pleased with her progress. She's got a few new tricks up her sleeve. One being actually crying for the 1st time when someone took her out of my arms. I gladly handed her over to her pedi for the exam today and she immediately gave us the pouty lip and proceeded to start wailing....through the entire exam. Now, I'm going to blame that on crankiness from only sleeping ONE HOUR TOTAL today...she used to 2 at the very least. Usually its 3! Miss Crankypants took a while to calm down, but then came the shots....and queue the screaming again. She got her 2 regular vaccines and then got the regular flu and H1N1 vaccine as well.

I told the pedi about how great she eats and we got the green light to proceed with level 2 foods and meats (weird, huh Car?). We still have 3 fruits left to finish in the level 1 foods, then I'll move onto level 2. We'll probably go to those towards the end of the month. I doubt we'll venture into meats until well into January. But of course, I'll watch how she does and we'll follow her lead as always. On an unrelated note, Gabriella's eyes are still grayish blue and while I know that's normal, her pedi did say that based on what her eyes look like now, they'll likely be green or grayish green. She no longer thinks they'll be brown. We're definitely looking at something lighter.

Developmentally our gal is rolling both ways, grabbing her feet (and eating them), teething, and working on sitting up on her own. She loves to sing in the car and babble in her crib. She has a delightful personality and her smile just lights up my whole world. Its the best thing ever to be greeted with that as soon as I walk in her room. Love you baby girl!