Forty Three Weeks!

Note: this was written on Thursday, March 13 -- five days prior to today's date.

Weight: I'm guessing right around 17 pounds, maybe a little more.  

Sleep: Doing well with sleep -- not up to our gold star naps we had over break at home with mommy now that we're back at daycare, but nighttime sleep is still quite good. A couple nights this week, girlfriend woke up and had to be rocked to sleep, but otherwise we've been sleeping from 7:30 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. or later this week.

Medical Issues: Feeling great :)

Clothes: We're in three to six month clothes and three to six month jammies!

Socialite!: As much as I like to think she doesn't like daycare at all and only likes hanging out with Mommy, it's pretty clear that she really enjoys being with and watching the other kids at daycare -- so lots of socializing at daycare this week! Both sets of Lizzie's grandparents were away on winter reprieves, so they both came to visit her when they arrived back in Minnesota :)

Diet: This week's favorite food seems to be pineapple. Girlfriend sees pineapple anywhere and she freaks out! So if I give her strawberries and blackberries with supper (a favorite of hers!), but she sees me eating pineapple with mine… she's instantly reaching as hard as she can for my fork and plate. She's also a huge fan of apples, which I think comes from the fact that she never gets them, for obvious reasons. I could, of course, bake apples for her, but I tried that once and wasn't a huge fan of the outcome. Otherwise, she loves roasted sweet potatoes, broccoli and kiwi lately as far as produce goes. She's also in love with peanut butter! I let her try a tiny bit of peanut butter a few weeks ago, just to test the waters in terms of allergies, but no negative outcome -- so I threw caution into the wind and gave her peanut butter toast and she couldn't get enough. Lizzie will eat pretty much anything with peanut butter on it… delish!

Baby Gear Love: Any open jar or cup, Lizzie girl loves. Her favorite pastimes with them are to pretend she's drinking out of them (which we will do simultaneously with another cup, and then she'll trade with us :)) and to talk loudly into them. I think she loves the magnified sound of her voice :) It is too funny.

Crying: Lizzie is such a happy babe. She only cries when she's hungry or tired.

Mommy News: Not much to share on the Mommy front, aside from the fact that being a momma is the best thing in the entire world!

Milestones: Giving more and more kisses on-demand all the time! So sweet… melts our hearts!

Girlfriend is now "cruising" (walking while holding on to furniture) -- she started to do this just last night. Actually, that's a lie: she's actually been doing this for a few weeks, but not with much confidence. Last night, however, was a different story. Lizzie walked around her B. Zany Zoo, reached across a six-to-twelve inch gap to grab hold of a chair, walked across that, and reached across another decent-sized gap to get to another toy to walk along that. We were amazed. These changes happen literally overnight! So crazy.