coming up orange
We can check another one off the list! Dylan was all over the acorn squash today and finished it in about 3 minutes flat. And since I had already put the rest to freeze I had to improv with more sweet potatoes and cereal, but that didn't seem to bug him as long as it was something to eat. And I'm happy he liked it BUT I meant to give him butternut squash. Why you ask? Well I wanted to follow the orange sweet potatoes with what-I-thought-was a yellow veggie. First cut in, surprise mama, it's orange too! Even Adam knew butternut squash was the yellow one. I have nothing to blame this on other than I'm an dope.
Other news...none. The kids are good, Dylan is rolling over but only when he feels like it and Samantha is a little feisty but I think she's cutting another molar. Adam is busy. I'm reading the Twilight Saga, again.
hello october
This weekend was ah.maz.ing. I wish they could all be like this! This will be a bullet point list of amazing since the bears are on and it's been a long one!
*Saturday we spent a good part of the day in IN at an apple orchard picking apples and kid farming and eating. Adam and I picked apples while Samantha would take them from us and put them in the bag. She wasn't really interested in picking them herself, even after Adam accidentally ripped off the entire branch and was able to hold it within her reach. She ran up to all the animals in the kids farm mooing or neighing or clucking and pointing them out to us. She experienced her first taste of a fall classic, hot apple cider. Dylan was great the whole day, in the stroller or in our arms he was chill. And happy. The pics from the day are awesome, we'll post them soon!
*Dylan had his first solid, rice cereal! He wasn't nearly as messy as I was expecting and by the end he wasn't spitting any back out. We're right on track for him to enjoy Grandpa Homey's mashed sweet potatoes at Thanksgiving!
*Tia's baby shower was today at Maggianos! She was adorable and happy and it was so great to be there for them!
*Dylan tried out the jumperoo before dinner, success! Poor guy may have been overstimulated between the video, pictures, us, Sammie, and Grandma Rita all asking if he was having fun, bouncing him, showing him all the fun parts of the jumper, but he had a good time
meal time
This can't be my child. She's turning her head at food. Gasp!! Actually, it's all things green and about an hour ago apples and rice cereal too. Nursing is play time now, eating with her butt straight in the air. Sheesh, so this is the self weaning I've heard so much about. I guess I should feel glad that she's giving me the signs she's ready to move on rather than the other way around.
I was excited to have Samantha's 9 month appointment today to confirm that she's still gaining weight like they want her to. But surprise! they never put our appointment into the computer. @#*@*&^$#& Luckily they got us in next Monday and it's not a vaccination appointment so even though I'm perturbed, no harm. I also scheduled her 12 month appointment while on the phone. I hung up and did a double take. Twelve month appointment?!? Not already. Not yet. Too fast. I know it's still three months away, but history will repeat itself: time will move forward in the blink of an eye.
my sweet string bean
I debated writing this because I really feel stupid and don't really want to talk about it. Then again I'm a new mom and allowed to make mistakes. I think. Anyhoo, here it goes.
In six weeks Samantha did not gain one ounce. Not a singe ounce. Her weight check was today and we had the same pedi we did for her 6 month appointment. I really really like this pedi and am a little sad she'll be on maternity leave soon but back to my point. Turns out I probably still haven't been feeding her enough and there are still questions about my supply. For the next three weeks I'm going to increase the amount of food per meal (solids that is) and introduce a third meal if she'll take it. I'll give her rice (or oatmeal) cereal with two of those meals, not just one anymore. I'm going to keep tabs on my supply, maybe it is that I'm not making enough to satisfy her. That makes me really sad so I'm hoping that the increasing the amount/frequency of solids will help. Also, the dr said we can introduce meats which I'm a little hesitant about because the thought of puree-ing them makes me want to gag but I'll do it for my baby of course.
If we get to our appointment in three weeks and she's still not gaining weight we will have to start supplementing with a little bit of formula and run a few tests to make sure there's nothing wrong. I got tears in my eyes just thinking about the last part of the sentence but I'm hopeful that we don't get to that point. The next three weeks things will turn around and she'll start gaining some weight. It's not like she's not growing, in the same six weeks she went from 25 3/4 inches long to 26 1/2. WOW. That put her in 9 month clothes length wise per the tags. I noticed her sleepers seeming a little bit snug in the feet/shoulder areas but not too bad. I'll wash her 9 month ones and phase those in. She's one long slim lady. Slim with rolls on her arms and legs, haha. Thank god she still has some chub to her : )
Bonkers for bananas
Alright, she's not bonkers yet but Samantha did gobble them up this morning. I love watching her explore the new food...the first bite was questionable but after that it was the standard mouth wide open face for more. And tonight we did rice cereal and carrots. I want to make some oatmeal cereal; the pedi reminded me there are other cereals to try last week. Ha, I was just so happy when she got the hang of rice cereal that I zoomed right to veggies.
Samantha is now taking a nap. The first real nap since she woke from her mid morning nap at 12:30 which only lasted 30 minutes. I don't know what's up with this girl. I wonder if it's her new trick. She loves to roll across the floor, belly to back, back to belly, belly to back and on and on. They say when they learn something new it's hard for them to sleep. In general they are just messed up. She napped from 3:30-5:30 yesterday. It was the longest nap in recorded 'nap' history for her (since about 3 months I'd say). I am so nervous because of that when I put her down at 6 but there was no way she was going to make it to her 8 o'clock bedtime. We'll see the outcome of this.
Aftershocks of shots
Samantha was not herself today. I thought she was going to be sleepy all day because her first nap ran past an hour and I think the only reason she woke up is because I banged something in the kitchen. But after that first nap she wouldn't sleep in her crib. She fell asleep twice while feeding and I let her take a nap on me the first time. Fearing I would screw her up for the night I tried to put her in the crib the second time she fell asleep on me after eating. Of course she woke up. Good news is that she went down for Adam great.
The first day of attempting two solids meals = fail. I tried giving her some carrots this morning and she wanted nothing to do with it. While I was at Target around dinner Adam gave her some peas. She ate some but he said she wasn't too eager for them. I'm making more rice cereal tomorrow so hopefully we'll do that in the morning with fruit (once we start fruit) and then a veggie at night. I'm excited to start sweet potatoes so I may just do it tomorrow for dinner.
Mom and Dad leave tomorrow for Colorado. We are totally bummed out that we aren't going. Totally bummed. I wish it was going to be Samantha's first vacation so bad, especially since I have so many good memories there and Adam had a blast last year. It's the perfect place for us to have an annual trip. It would have been fun to tell Samantha she went every single winter she was little. Ugh. I have to believe that we'll(I'll) find a way to get us there no matter what next winter.