Dadadada

Abi has been "talking" so much lately! She's been saying "dadada" and it's just the cutest thing! Of course we know she hasn't made the connection between what she's saying and her daddy yet, but she'll get there soon enough.

Another tooth?

Yes, tooth number two is poking through! I knew another one was coming with all the drool. lol!

Say what??

Abi put herself to sleep tonight. Yeah my jaw hit the floor too. Normally for bedtime we go in, read 2 books, turn off all the lights and turn up the white noise. Then she gets a bottle and I rock her to sleep. Well, tonight she was still wide awake after her bottle. So I put her in her crib and left to make 2 more oz (since she's been eating a TON lately I figured maybe she was still hungry and that was keeping her up..) well I was waiting for her to start to "rev" up a little but she was really just talking to herself and such for about 15-20 minutes. Then silence. I'm in shock. My baby does not put herself to sleep. Not like this anyway. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad and I hope it's not just a fluke. But I'm kind of sad too. My baby is growing up.

8 months

My baby is 8 months old today! Here's a rundown of what lil miss has been up to:
Sleep: Sleeping pretty much 12 hours from 7pm-6:30/7am. Unless she's sick then it's a guessing game. She's also going through a growth spurt and last night was the first night in a week that she didn't get up at 10:30pm to down a 5 oz bottle!
Eats: Drinking roughly 4-5oz at a time, every 2 hours or so. With this growth spurt however, she's been taking about 14oz in the first 3 or 4 hours of being awake for the day. That's over half of what she used to drink daily! Yesterday we let Abi chew/suck on some dark meat turkey! We put it in one of those nifty little mesh feeders and let her go to town. She LOVED it! Other than that, with her being sick a few weeks ago we are all out of whack with her solids schedule. We have finally gone back to peas and will probably either pick up bananas (remember she only tried them once back when she was sick) or try carrots again. Not sure which to be honest.
Play: She's a rolling machine these days! Abi also did try to scoot a little the other day, but I think that it will still be a while before she's actively scooting. She still loves to suck and chew anything she can get into her mouth. Now that she can sit up better, she's enjoying reaching for things and can even straighten her self back into a sitting position (as opposed to toppling over like before, lol) Abi love anything shiny and noisy (like mommy) and is totally captivated by an empty water bottle filled with Christmas ribbon that she can easily hold and chew. It makes a crinkle sound and she just loves the thing!
Other:We don't know how long she is but she was weighted last week and is 17lbs 11oz! Holy mole! She's got to be at least 29 inches because her feet are starting to dangle over the edge of her infant carseat. So today I scoured the deals online and found her a really nice looking convertible carseat with great reviews. I am so excited to get it, but at the same time I'm sad to see the infant carrier go. Especially since we just got a carseat canopy for it! LOL She's growing so fast I just can't believe it. Not two weeks ago she was fitting into her carseat just fine, then BOOM! Super length. Ha!

Abi's tree!

I can't wait to see what's in store for us this month with Abi's growth and new found abilities! I also can't wait to see what else she's going to start doing. Christmas is going to be so amazing this year!

Speaking of Christmas, I spoke with hubby about his "bah humbug" attitude and asked him to tone it down for Abi and my sake. I love the holidays and don't want them ruined for either of us. He was very understanding. Thank goodness!

Update

Abi is feeling better, she's back on her regular formula and went from constipation to poop explosions in 2 days. She's on an antibiotic (not too thrilled about that) and hopefully this darn cough will finally go away! Her tooth is poking through even more now and I think another one might be coming through soon. When she's home all day she'll take a really good nap in the late morning, but she still wont nap well at daycare. I cannot wait until Christmas break so that she gets a really good routine down (hopefully we'll have a nanny by the time I start classes again in January). Speaking of Christmas, I get to decorate this Friday! Woooohooooo! Abi will have her own tree (it's a mini tree that was once well loved by my grandma) and I bought some pink/purple garland and pink mini bulbs to add to the other ornaments we have for it. Just something to make it her own... and of course it's got to be pink! lol I'll post pics once it's up and decorated. It's going in her room but we won't be leaving it lit all night. Abi sleeps with very minimal light because otherwise she'd be up all night staring at it. My child is peculiar sometimes, lol.

What a week(end)

So this past week has been pretty bad. Abi was sick, and I mean icky sick. She was super mucousy and was coughing a lot.. then she lost her appetite and finally every night from last Thursday till Sunday she threw up. Only at night, and only in one session. Mostly mucus, but also some of her solids from that day too. We had still been on peas, but switched to bananas on Sunday.. not good. She hasn't thrown up since Sunday, but is still not eating well. She's constipated because the Dr. has me giving her a soy formula instead of her regular stuff. The reason for this is Abi had some suspicious poops (thought there might be blood in them, so she thought there might be an infection) and the soy is supposedly easier to digest. I'm beginning to wonder if this Dr. is nuts because I thought easily digestible foods didn't constipate you. Grr. So Abi still isn't eating and of course is slightly dehydrated from not drinking enough, which just makes the constipation worse! She's acting like she's feeling better tho, which is good. But I know her tummy has to be bothering her. I've tried giving her a little white grape juice with water, but she hates it and only drinks a few sips. The Dr.'s office said to try pedalyte but I want to get rid of the darn white grape juice first, lol. (we bought organic, with the least amount of ingredients we could find, don't want it to go to waste!) Hopefully we can take her off of the soy formula tomorrow and get everything back to normal again!

First tooth!

It popped through either last night or this morning, I had no idea she was teething! I mean I've been told that "oh she must be teething" for months! Her Dr said there weren't any signs of teeth coming in soon, that was 2 Weeks ago... So I didn't think anything of it. She's just been a little more drooly lately, not more fussy, no fever... No diaper rash our not more than normal.... Its such a surprise! Lol pics once I actually get one to post!

Tiz The Season

Halloween is officially over. Which means pretty soon we will be inundated with Christmas music, decorations and products at all our favorite stores. I love this time of year, and I am even more excited for this year because it will be Abi's first holiday season. That being said, my husband is being a total grinch for some reason. He's never been one for holidays, but this year is pretty bad. He's excited (or says he is) that we get to celebrate Abi's first holidays, but every time I say anything to the effect of "Oh, look at the pretty lights" or wrapping paper or anything holiday related he goes "bleh" or "blah" or something similar. REALLY?!?!? I'm all about if you don't have anything nice to say, keep your mouth shut. And he used to be too. But this is getting pretty sad. Hubby doesn't like people. Well, I don't generally like the "public" but that's because I worked customer service for many years. Anyway, he doesn't like getting together with family for the holidays (or any other time really)... My mom's side of the family is messed up, bad. And hubby doesn't want to have anything to do with them. At all. Which puts me in the middle. So I'll be going to that side's Christmas party with Abi and not hubby. Which will prompt the questions "where's your husband?" all night. Lovely. But I can handle that if it makes him happy. Then my dad's side of the family, whom my husband actually likes, will want to do something and he said he wasn't even looking forward to that. Why? Because it involves people outside of our little family unit, talking small talk and I guess keeping him away from his "free time". Yes friends, my husband has free time. When do I get a break? The 20 minute naps Abi has reverted to. Once or twice a day. No longer are we taking lovely long hour naps. Ugh. Ahhh, anyway I'm not getting into what else is going on right now... but I just feel like crap lately and part if it is my husbands poor attitude. And it's not just the holidays it's everything. He's not terribly helpful with Abi, and gets frustrated when asked to help. I don't know what's going on but I feel like some days he's not the man I married. Which makes me wonder if he was putting on a front until now. .. I don't know. Maybe it's just pms, maybe I'm over thinking things. I hope that's all there is to it.