October Updates and Milestones

Well, over the past few DAYS things have changed. Sheesh, when folks tell you that your kids grow fast you don't belive them until your baby gets about 4.5 months old and she hits milestone, after milestone, and you realize you cannot keep up with her. Mostly because sleep hsa become a thing of the past, but no need for a pity party, we have a lot going on!!

Over the past few weeks we have graduated to solid foods, started LOVING the jumperoo (even though her feet don't touch the ground), rolling over, and now sitting up almost completely on her own. I mean really? These things are supposed to happen months or in the very least weeks apart right? Not in the Airhart house, I should have know she was like me........she gets ready do something, watch out because she's gonna make it happen.

So to catch y'all up, first we started solids. My last post was ALL about solids, I promise this is just a short paragraph. When we started solids I was kinda worried about them backing her up a bit since she is just four months old, however, I KNOW she's ready so we proceeded with zero caution. Wednesday when I woke up, I sent a note to the sitter:

"Susan,

Please bicycle her legs today for her "exercise" she has not pooped since Sunday."

If I had not pooped since Sunday, I would be a cranky pants, but not Sadie Marie, yes we have had serious bouts with gas over the past few days but all that gas has resulted in zero poop and it was not for trying. I wish I had a video of her as we were walking home from the sitter the other day. She grunted, bucked, tucked, and did everything that looked as if she was bout to poop out a toyota prius, but alas nada. Tuesday more of the same, the FINALLY as I send my love note to daycare I get a text from Susan at about 10AM:

"April, I can't belive I'm saying this but YAY! She pooped"

Whew, it was the best text of the week. They she proceeded to poop three more times that day and once yesterday morning! Even though with the introduction of solids, that makes her squishes be stank, we were very excited a pooping baby is a happy baby! I was also very excited as the baby daddy is currently enrolled in an EMT course and now thinks he knows all about babies. He comes home and tries to take the baby's pulse under in her bicep. He asked me if we have a rectal thermometer......WTF. I asked him if he wanted to take her temperature? He's just trying to show me he knows what's up. Roger that Airhart, now ease up. I'm glad he learned baby CPR, but I do not need to hear all the horror stories as if I don't already have enough to worry about!

On to Jumperoo fun!
She LOVES it and would probably love it even more if she could touch the floor! The one she has at daycare is shorter and, even with it set on the lowest level, the one I have at home is about 2 inches too high so Uncle John Robert donated some of his old school books to the Sadie Marie Jump foundation and presto! She has a duct taped platform that allows her to play like the big kids! Just another example of how duct tape can fix anything! I'm glad she likes it too, it give the baby daddy and I a little break and I mean sometimes I'm kinda jealous. I wish I had a seat to sit in that held me up with fun shit 360 degrees around me. I think I need to invent a bouncy seat for adults that includes a wine/beer dispenser, a place to hold your cell phone, IPAD, some chips, and maybe even a stationary bike underneath just so we don't get lazy. I'm a genius I know. Just let me know if you want one too.

Please notice the red books on the floor....she's a munchkin like her mama!

Moving on.......

Yeseterday morning before work we were playing in the bed and FINALLY she rolled over twice, then I grab my phone to video tape it for the baby daddy and NADA. I swear she is totally like him when it comes to being in the spotlight! Does not love it. She freezes as soon as she sees the phone or camera pointed at her, it's so funny! I picked her up off her tummy and sat her up.  BOOM, she sat there all by herself looking at the little dog trying to grab him, after about 30 seconds she kinda slumped to the side and thought it was hilarious!

I can't believe that one minute she is my tiny little baby, the next minute she weighs 16 lbs, is rolling, sitting, and grabbing for everything she can get, especially my plate at the dinner table!! She knocked the food bowl, along with all the squash in it, out of my hands last night, it did a 360 and landed all over her, me, her food tray, and the counter. Awesome. She's getting so big and exactly one week from now we will be taking our first plane ride.....ALONE.

I hope she sleeps like this on the plane!

That's right folks, I'm going to attempt a trip to Alabama all on my own on a plane with a 4.5 month old baby. The baby daddy is going to drop me off at BWI and I will be in charge of getting myself and Sadie Marie through security, to the gate, on the plane, and to BHM in one piece. Thank goodness they don't want me to fly the plane......I'm going to have my hands full. I have been reading the TSA website so I know all the rules but I have a feeling this is going to be an adventure. I mean what the hell am I supposed to do with miss priss when I have to pee? I'll figure it out I know, but I'm most worried about other folks in the airport. My biggest fear is to take my eyes off her for one second and have some crazy person touch her or take her. OMG, makes me sick to my stomach. Auntie JuJu has mentioned putting her in a bubble on more than one occassion, I want a bubble with a pad lock please. We will make it and I know it will be fine, it just the anticipation that is way worse than the actual event! I'm so excited about going to Alabama I will get over the worry, oh and I'm going to strap Sadie Marie to me after we get through security and dead bolt the lock!

After we arrive in AL we have a fun week with the family and friends as Reagan and Matt get married and Baby's First Halloween!!! AND I'm so stinking excited we are going to the pumpkin patch THIS weekend with some friends and Auntie JuJu, and then we have trunk or treat at Elkdale while in Alabama. Sadie Marie is going to be a duck and she has the cutest little duckie outfit I cannot wait. I will be sure to update on those two outtings ASAP.

**On a side note, the baby daddy came homes from said EMT course daily and tells me what he has learned about babies. Sheesh, I don't want to hear most of it (it's sad and scary) but yesterday and told he could now deliver a baby......he knew all about child birth. OK.......I guess that is what they covered in class yesterday and he comes home talking to me about eclampsia, breech position, C-sections, and so on and so on. Sheesh......if only he had taken this course BEFORE I spent 12 hours in labor. I think he wants to deliver our next baby. Yikes, not gonna happen. Could you imagine!?! I've already decided he's going to be a doctor for Halloween and I know he secretly wants me to buy him a stethscope.

Love y'all!

A

Finally! Solid Foods!

So it's been a while since I last posted and that is simply because we have been BUSY! I went back to work, the baby daddy started traveling for work again, and Sadie Marie has gotten BIG. She looks like the michelin man and the stay puff marshmellow had a baby. We just had her four month appointment and WOW she has gone up to 16lbs and is 24.5 inches long. Thank goodness she grew four inches.......we moved up to the 60th percentile in height (up from 20th) and also up to the 95th in weight. I can handle moving up a weight class as long as height follows. She's still a munchkin though!

So as you can see from the title we have graduated to solid foods. I'm so glad to because my little nugget is HUNGRY! I'm still breastfeeding, but she has been really interested in what we are doing at the table every night. The baby daddy, myself, Uncle John Rob, and Auntie JuJu sit at the table and Sadie Marie sits in her counter top swing and watches.......well now she wants to sit in my lap and put her hands on the table or in my food. She is SO nosy and SO interested I started rice cereal a week before her 4 month appointment. It was hilarious. If you want to see the video go to my facebook page and enjoy. She was flapping her little arms and SO excited to get some real food. She is still the milk monster but now we can add veggie monster to the resume.

My mom came to visit last weekend and I waited until then to start with sweet potatoes. I'm making my own baby food and so I wanted to let Cunnie feed her those first. Most children make huge messes on their own during their first feedings. They are not sure exactly how to swallow, the food and spoon are foreign objects, and they have a reflex that makes them spit it out. NOT Sadie Marie. She made a small mess, which was egged on by the feeder but this child swallows, she will guide the spoon to her mouth, she does not want to waste anything, AND is unhappy when it's gone. SHEESH child, at least give your tummy some time to get used to it before I increase the intake!! You know she my child though.....I have a cast iron stomach and clearly she does too. We added carrots to the menu on Wednesday and again HUGE success. She loves them. I'm going add something new this weekend I think. Butternut squash perhaps..... I love butternut squash. It looks funny and has a great name. Even Uncle John Rob will eat butternut squash fries........
I have read a lot over the past weeks about making your own baby food and how you can really just mush or process whatever you are eating and feed to them. I don't know how I feel about processing up chicken and I know that will come later after we have done veggies and fruits, but still kinda grosses me out to think about processing up chicken, adding some breastmilk, and feeding it to my baby. Think about red meat........processed. YUCK. However, in the spirit of making my own I'm going to suck it up, find some good recipes, and grind away as soon as we get there. OF course I'm going to add Lea and Perrin's worchestershire sauce to my red meat and some southern flavor....gotta start her off right. Plus I already  know she likes it.....mom stuck a piece of steak slathered in it to her nose last weekend at Outback and if she could have gummed it up she would have, she opened wide!!

I will say that starting solids has solidified her poop. She still squishes but yesterday after her main course of carrots with a side of milk, she has a perfectly smooshed carrot in her diaper. It was hilarious and I also have to say I'm not longer a tub poop virgin. She totally got me the other night. Carrots = poop. I'm reading "Elmo Loves Opposites" and SQUISH. SO funny. It was like we were in the pits changing tires at the Talladega 500 trying to get her wrapped up and back to her room for a diaper before the second squish arrived. (there is always a second squish!)

It's so funny........I NEVER thought in a million years I would be this kind of mom. One who WANTS to breastfeed for a year and WANTS to make her own babyfood. It used to be all about April, but now it's all about Sadie Marie and sometimes it's about me. I also try to work in a little time for the baby daddy too. He deserves it and when I see how some of my friend's husbands act....WOW does he deserve it! LOVE YOU AIRHART. We both want to give her the best we can and the best of us. She's a little terror sometimes, but when she farts, smiles, and laughs who can remember she was up at 3 AM screaming?

So, over the coming months I get to come to AL in October AND December. I'm so excited. We will be home for Halloween! Sadie Marie's duckie outfit has been ordered! John Rob and Jules are getting married in December. Reagan and Matt in October. I LOVE a good wedding and Cunnie with get some good quality time with the little nugget while the baby daddy and I have some quality alone time :)

Below are some new pictures and eating experiences. HILARIOUS!

Her first trip to church.

She has just gotten big enough (well almost) for a boucy seat! She LOVES them.

YUM, Carrots!! Can I please lick the spoon clean?

Her newest hat! She's real excited as you can see. :)

Love y'all,

A