I'm trying to resurrect the baby blog here, since I've been a terrible slacker on it lately. Life with a baby and a job and a host of other commitments keeps you busy - big surprise! Maggie is so much fun right now though, that I thought I'd take a minute to share some of her latest exploits. So here goes...ten new things about Maggie Jo!
1. She has two adorable middle teeth that are about halfway up right now. They broke through March 17th and 21st. Some minor sleep problems and lots of drool, but a fairly happy teether.
2. She's really vocal. All sorts of fun syllables come out of this child's mouth. We've been hearing dada for a couple months now, and I got a mama this week just in time for Mothers' Day. Music to my ears, even if she doesn't have a club what it means!
3. She army crawled for about a month and a half, pulling her entire upper boady along with her hands and elbows. Quite the set of biceps on this young lady! As of last Friday, it's real crawling, 0 to 60 in no time flat! She's also pulling up on everying. Nothing in our house is safe.
4. She loves Dora the Explorer. First noticed this as our sitter has it on in the mornings. We really don't let her watch much TV at all, but we'll cheat on this for a few minutes as her grins and excited shrieks are worth it :) Not sure if it's the images or the music, but whoever created that cartoon is an evil genius.
5. Maggie's slowly but surely acquiring a taste for people food. She loves sweet potatoes and bananas and really didn't like carrots. Hoping to start some finger foods soon.
6. For about the past month, she has been sleeping through the night pretty consistently, 8 to 6. Dad and I are appreciative. Hopefully I haven't jinxed it by putting it in print!
7. She really likes to "read" and play with her books. For some reason, her absolute favorite is a lift-the-flap book called Toes, Ears, and Noes.
8. She is enamored with doors right now, particularly closing and opening them. Her favorites are the glass doors on our entertainment center. Her fingers are small enough she just slips them in the gap, grabs the doors, and swings them away.
9. She can get her socks off in about five seconds flat. We're leaning towards letting her be barefoot most of the summer.
10. She may have a bit of separation anxiety, but this child has never heard of stranger anxiety. She has curiousity about and a gorgeous grin for everyone. She's everyone's best friend, and the light and joy in our lives!
BONUS: Maggie is excited that she has a new little cousin, her first on the Jacoby side. Check out Lucy Mae at littlerapp.blogspot.com.
Friday, May 8, 2009
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Five and a half months and counting
Since Maggie is taking an incredibly long nap (yay!), I thought I would throw a quick update out here on the blog. Time is just flying by these days. I meant to make a "five months" post, and here Maggie is five and half months old already and geting ready to go to her first Super Bowl party tonight!
We've been quite busy since Christmas, but I'd say our two main activities have been trying to stay healthy and trying to get some sleep! Maggie's cold in early December turned into bronchiolitis (RSV). She's quite well acquainted with our friend Bubbles the nebulizer mask now. Healthy for a few weeks around Christmas, we had a relapse in early January. We are just trying to be super careful with this, since Steve has allergy and asthma issues to which she could be pre-dispositioned.
A few hit or miss sleep issues started around that time. We'll have a few good days (waking up once to eat) and then a few bad days (waking up 4-5x a night and not going back to sleep for over an hour). Nothing we can't deal with, but mom and dad have been boning up on different sleep 'training' books and trying to make some adjustments to nap habits. We'll figure it out eventually -- hopefully we don't fall asleep at work in the meantime!
But otherwise, Maggie's had quite a fun month of holidays parties with family and helping her dad, granpda, and mom all celebrate their birthdays in December and January. And she is changing at lightning speed again. She's SO much more mobile all of the sudden. No crawling yet, but she has a bunch of the motions down. While she can't pull up into a sitting position yet, she can sit and balance on her own with an occasional topple. She's kicking like a maniac in the bathtub, and she's been thrilled to discover that she can get her toes into her mouth now.
Maggie's been getting really grabby with things on the dinner table, and she drops off her toys off the highchair repeatedly these days. Of course between that and her obsession with the TV remote, mom and dad think that she's figured out cause and effect already. :) Dad's been teaching her to buzz her lips, and she spends a lot of her day trying to do this with fairly good success. She's also getting really vocal -- lots of fun syllables and giggles these days. She's a wonderfully good-natured baby and still is full of smiles for everyone.
Our big milestone this week -- Maggie had her first cereal yesterday! We had dinner at Grandma and Grandpa Easter's in Peoria, and then we gave it a go. She seemed a bit confused, but she didn't seem to hate it. I'll have to update with some fun pictures soon. Stay tuned for the latest snapshots and eventually some six month pictures!
We've been quite busy since Christmas, but I'd say our two main activities have been trying to stay healthy and trying to get some sleep! Maggie's cold in early December turned into bronchiolitis (RSV). She's quite well acquainted with our friend Bubbles the nebulizer mask now. Healthy for a few weeks around Christmas, we had a relapse in early January. We are just trying to be super careful with this, since Steve has allergy and asthma issues to which she could be pre-dispositioned.
A few hit or miss sleep issues started around that time. We'll have a few good days (waking up once to eat) and then a few bad days (waking up 4-5x a night and not going back to sleep for over an hour). Nothing we can't deal with, but mom and dad have been boning up on different sleep 'training' books and trying to make some adjustments to nap habits. We'll figure it out eventually -- hopefully we don't fall asleep at work in the meantime!
But otherwise, Maggie's had quite a fun month of holidays parties with family and helping her dad, granpda, and mom all celebrate their birthdays in December and January. And she is changing at lightning speed again. She's SO much more mobile all of the sudden. No crawling yet, but she has a bunch of the motions down. While she can't pull up into a sitting position yet, she can sit and balance on her own with an occasional topple. She's kicking like a maniac in the bathtub, and she's been thrilled to discover that she can get her toes into her mouth now.
Maggie's been getting really grabby with things on the dinner table, and she drops off her toys off the highchair repeatedly these days. Of course between that and her obsession with the TV remote, mom and dad think that she's figured out cause and effect already. :) Dad's been teaching her to buzz her lips, and she spends a lot of her day trying to do this with fairly good success. She's also getting really vocal -- lots of fun syllables and giggles these days. She's a wonderfully good-natured baby and still is full of smiles for everyone.
Our big milestone this week -- Maggie had her first cereal yesterday! We had dinner at Grandma and Grandpa Easter's in Peoria, and then we gave it a go. She seemed a bit confused, but she didn't seem to hate it. I'll have to update with some fun pictures soon. Stay tuned for the latest snapshots and eventually some six month pictures!
Sunday, January 25, 2009
The Holidays
Okay, Maggie (and her mom and dad) realizes that she's been neglecting her blog-viewing public. What can we say - working full-time and life with a 5 month-old keeps you busy! Hope to have a real update soon, but I thought I'd at least get pictures from Maggie's holidays and her christening out there. Enjoy!
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