Month 6

Time needs to stop. Seriously. She is growing way too fast. She's sitting up all by herself and has started the army crawl this month. She''ll be chasing Adrian around in no time. She's also found her tongue recently, holy cow it's long!

Unless she's hungry or tired, she's a very happy baby. It's really not hard to get a smile out of her. She still won't have anything to do with a bottle or formula so weaning her should be quite the ordeal. She's still sleeping in her bassinet in our bedroom and I found her sitting up in it yesterday. She's growing out of it but I don't know what else to do with her since we only have one other bedroom. I can just see Adrian and Carly waking eachother up every hour. Moving her crib to the walk-in closet is the best idea we've got so far. Not a good sign.

Hooter Hider

These things are genius. My sister in law, Camille let me borrow hers when I had Carly and it makes it so nice. I found a tutorial online to make my own and since I have an entire closet full of fabric, I decided to try it out.

This is the link, her instructions made it so easy. http://makeitandloveit.blogspot.com/2008/12/nursing-cover.html

And this is the one I finished. It probably took a total of 45 minutes of actual sewing. 4 hours if you count each time I got interrupted :)

I wanted it big, but right now it's a little too long. Hopefully I can get it to shrink down a bit. I already had everything you need to make it so I'm not sure what it would cost, but I would guess somewhere between $16 and $20. Not bad when they sell for $40.

Month 5...Oops

Carly is five months old, I can't believe it. I'm about 2 weeks late posting this, and I completely missed month 4, but that month was insane and stressful to say the least! Carly started rolling over about 2 days before she officially passed the 5 month mark, and she seems like she'll start sitting up on her own any time now. She's still got her cute chubby legs and arms, and the cheeks are still very pinch-able! She loves eating real food, even the green ones. She also started sucking in her bottom lip when she is concentrating on something. Adrian loves her baby "Cardy". If she's crying and I don't get to her quick enough, she'll run over and tell her "it's okay, mommy's here". I think because I've been nursing her this long, Carly's a lot more of a mommy's girl. She gets pretty offended when I'm not holding her 24/7.

By the way...the last picture isn't Carly. It's Adrian when she was about 6 months. They could be twins!

Potty Training Stinks...Literally.

We started potty training Adrian about 2 weeks ago, cold turkey. We just let her go completely naked and stuck her on the toilet when she needed to go. She has done really well, except when she has an accident, it's almost always #2. On Friday, Shawn went to let her out of her bedroom after her nap and noticed she was acting really defensive like she had done something she knew was bad. The heater vent was off and she's been known to put toys down it before so Shawn told her to put it back on. Then he noticed that it wasn't toys she was stashing, it was her poop.

Sunday we decided to let her go without a pull up since she had done so well on the day before, we didn't want to reverse all that progress. About 20 minutes into Sacrament meeting she said that she needed to go pee, so I took her, she went, and we sat back down. Probably no more than 5 minutes after that, I notice she's pulling a face...and then I got a whiff. I picked her up and ran to the bathroom, but it was too late.

We might just have a kindergartner in diapers.

Cereal!

It's crazy how different babies can be! Adrian wanted absolutely nothing with baby food, so I was expecting the same with Carly. Since Carly refuses to take a bottle, we decided to try rice cereal with her this week. She LOVES it! Hardly any of it gets spit back out and she cries for more in between spoon-fulls.