It's been so long..

since I blogged! I have to get started again. There is so much going on with my little sweet pea and I want to remember all of it. So maybe I'm using this more like a journal, is that bad?

SP is 10 months old. We are really amazed at all the things she is doing, and more specifically, saying. She talks a lot and I don't want to forget any of it.

She started at 3 months old saying Mama. I know that sounds crazy, but now, in retrospect, I really believe she knew what she was saying. She started at 9 months saying baby and book, within two days of each other. Shoe was next I believe. She was also working on bye-bye around that time with a little wave.

Now at 10 months, it's off the hook. She says "walk" as she is walking around (holding our hands), or more accurately, "walk, walk, walk". Then if I say "Let's go" she says "go,go,go". She looks at herself in the mirror and with a big smile says "hi baby". If I say "give the baby a kiss" she kisses herself in the mirror". As she is walking around the house she stops when she sees a picture of herself and says "baby!".

She also kicks a ball while she is walking and says "kick it, kick it". Maybe a little soccer star? Who knows! She sees a duck now and says "quack quack". She loves cats and says "cat" whenever she sees one. She also says "hi Daddy" but calls me "May" for some reason I cannot figure out. She also loved Avocado and says "Ca! Ca!" as soon as she sees it. Similarly "Chee" is cheese. Definitely takes after her parents!

Today I was reading her a book called 'What does baby say?'. It is a lift the flap book and one of the pages is "what does the hungry baby say?" and under the flap it shows the baby drinking a bottle and says "Ba-Ba". As I read "What does the hungry baby say?" she said "Ba-Ba". More than once! Before I even lifted the flap!

And one more before she wakes up from this nap. another book she has has a page that says "Bang your drum" so I always bang on the page. She now bangs on the book when we get to that page!

I don't want to give her the kabash or anything so I will say "poo poo poo" as my mother taught me, but I also like to make notes so I can keep track of her development. It's going in leaps and bounds. Ok, time to rescue SP from her crib.

Hasta Luego,

Dr. A

Exersaucer!!!

OK, so I know she shouldn't spend too much time in this thing, but she LOVES it!!!! Finally vertical, and can see the whole world.

And, she's back!

Wow, it's been awhile. I feel bloggy again, so here I am, back in the saddle. My beautiful baby is four and a half months old. It's been a roller coaster ride and I finally feel more settled with caring for her. I have not blogged anything since she was born, so will start from the beginning and make a 'long story short'. Or not. It's my blog anyways.

My Lele was born via Cesarean Section at 8:28am on 9.9.09. The ninth hour of the ninth day of the ninth month of the ninth year. Sheesh! That's gotta mean something, right? I was two weeks late, and induced due to low amniotic fluid levels. The induction failed and to summarize 48 hours of my life, I had to face my worst fears. But I did it of course,and could not have been happier to finally meet my gorgeous baby girl.

The most amazing moment of my life was when they put her in my arms in the recovery room, and she immediately recognized my voice.She was crying and I started talking to her and she calmed down right away. My mother and father were in town from NY for the birth and I think the experience was transcendent for my mother.

Sweetpea was fantastic, since I was incapacitated initially he took over right away and did all the baby care.
What a daddy.

The first three weeks were tough because I was in pain and had an infection. So I had multiple dr. appts, and the baby did too, because she had a tiny heart murmur. After three weeks, I felt better but baby got super fussy. that was tough too, I never could get out with her, since she needed a lot of comforting and was just generally uncomfortable. We finally figured out that she had reflux, aka heartburn and started treating her for it. She got a lot less fussy at about 8 weeks. Now she is just an angel. Here are some pics:

At six weeks

At 13 weeks

At Halloween

At Thanksgiving

At Christmas

Visit with Grandma and Grandpa and Uncle (Daddy's family)

at four months

More to come

Hasta Luego,

Dr. A