Saturday, May 1, 2010

another first!

Ruby Belle officially has her first tooth today!!! it seems like she's been teething since she was 3 months old, but never was it bad. i'm not sure all teeth will be this easy, but there's always hope! ha!

and now that she's been crawling for a month she's gotten really good at pulling up on stuff! she's SUCH a busy girl these days! and SO many milestones lately!!

here's the run down of where we are:

- Laughs when tickled and when you make funny noises with her
-loves to babble...especially "dadadada" :) we're working on "mama"
-likes to sweetly scream when she wants you to watch her play
-still loves her exersaucer...wishes it would bounce, but doesn't love the jumper thing yet
-smiles all the time
-crawling with the best of them
-pulling up on waist high items and in the pack 'n play
-and SO proud of herself when she does all of this!!
-likes to go for walks (and i love my baby jogger!)
-SO intrigued with Keek (cat) and Maggie (dog), smiles and laughs when she sees them and wants to pet (grab) them...they aren't quite as interested in her. :(
-LOVES to stand up while holding onto our leather ottoman/"cubes" and chew on the leather (our dog doesn't chew, our daughter does!)
-we think she has allergies (like her mom and dad)
-wearing 6-9 month clothes
-still doing cloth diapers...but only at home (day care won't do them), so we do size 3 Pampers (Huggies don't cut it)
-eats 6 times a day, has cereal (rice/oatmeal) once a day along w/a bottle and has veggies once a day when she gets home from daycare (snack before dinner)
-loves green beans, green peas, squash.
-will eat sweet potatoes
-won't touch carrots or the peaches/banana/rice cereal mixture
-still thinking about making my own babyfood, but just haven't made it happen
-last bottle (breast milk - have been exclusively pumping and bottle feeding since about 3 months) is at 8pmish and then straight to bed
-she goes down almost always w/o a peep
-best baby ever!! (we're kinda partial!)

2 comments:

Sarah said...

Oh my goodness, Miss Ruby Belle is growing up! Teeth! Crawling! That's awesome. I know what you mean about the teething FOREVER! It's water works over here, too. And I swear Ashby didn't stop drooling until 2.

I didn't know you were exclusively pumping. That takes so much dedication. I don't think I could do it. Go you! I hang out with that dreaded thing 3x a day and that seems like more than enough!

One of these days we're going to have to get together!

Mandy S said...

:) i know, sarah...she's a little adult now!!
and yes, i HATE pumping, but it was taking SO long for her to eat that i just gave up and started pumping exclusively. and i'm still doing it. really, it works now because i do it before work, at work and after work, and justin can help feed. but the pump and i very much have a love/hate relationship!

yes, it's starting to get nice outside so we need to get together sometime this summer!