Rolling, rolling, rolling

This baby will not stop rolling. Now, Gabriella has been able to roll for quite a while now, but for the most part has always been content to be in one position if playing with something. This weekend marked a new chapter in Gabriella's mobility. We have entered into the world of log rolling. Its quite cute and she's so fast at it. If you look away from where she is on the floor for one second, you turn around and she's flipped the other way.

This is wreaking a little bit of havoc on our sleeping though. She pretty much immediately rolls onto her stomach as soon as I leave the room after laying her down. Most of the time she has trouble falling asleep on her tummy or she has trouble falling asleep once she's woken up from a sleep cycle. I know its just something she'll have to get used to, but man does she get worked up about it!

I think she might be getting close to crawling. She kinda scoots herself around a bit on her tummy, but yesterday she started trying to lift up her butt to get on all fours. She can prop herself all the way up on her hands easily and for a while, so its just picking up the back end! Sitting up wise - she can do it. She does it the best if she's got a toy in front of her, but she needs to be supervised or have the boppy around her b/c she often flops over (so that she can be on her tummy). Her tummy is seemingly her fave position to be in as of late. On the food front, we are well into our stage 2's and Gabriella has tried one meat: chicken. I made her sweet potatoes and chicken and she loved it. I plan on making squash, chicken, and sweet potatoes tonight as well.

Our next doc appt is at 9 months. Hurray for no shots! We just recently got Gabriella's bigger carseats. We decided on the Britax Boulevard CS. She's still fitting in her infant seat, and we plan to use that for the next couple weeks or so. She's pretty close to being done with it though.

Otherwise, I'm doing well. Getting loads of sleep which is glorious (minus our recent fussing on the tummy issues). Chris and I just bought a bedroom set and are looking forward to decorating our bedroom. I'll be starting working out again soon. I've really been slacking and I've got about 10 lbs I want to lose before summer and I definitely need to tone up. My flab is just icky!

Opening it back up....

After a month of being private, I have decided to open the blog back up again for now.

Gabriella updates to come soon! :)

There's nothing worse than...

Being in the car, during a snow storm, in gridlock, and needing to poop. That my friends, was how my day started. It took me 2 hours to go 15 miles! To say I was pissed would be an understatement. But enough about me (for now)...

Guess who's 7 months old today?! OMG, SEVEN months. I can't even wrap my brain around it. Since I last wrote, much has happened. Gabriella went on her 1st plane ride (screamed for half, slept for half) to the OC, had her first Christmas, got her 2 bottom teeth, started sitting up on her own, felt sand under her feet at the beach, and flew back to chilly Chicago first class, courtesy of F-ing American Airlines cancelling our initial flight.

In boob news, I officially stopped pumping 2.5 weeks ago. It was hard, I'm not gonna lie. The first 48 hours were the worst, after that it got better. Right as my boobs started going down, I became re-engorged in my left breast and developed...wait for it....wait for it....MASTITIS yet again!! I had to go to the doc while in CA and was started on antibiotics and prescription anti-inflammatory which saved my life. Now the boobs are back to their pre-pregnancy glory and size, except with some saggage. Gabriella has had no problems with the formula, other than pooping more frequently.

We had her flu booster shots on Tuesday and I insisted that they weigh and measure her b/c she looked like she had grown all of the sudden to me. She was 19 lbs 8.5 oz and 26.75 inches long. That's 1 lb, 5.5 oz and half and inch in a month. What a big girl!

Here's our lovely girl:

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!