Ten Months and Yes, a Few Weeks

Baby Wonder is 10 months old. She is crawling all over, standing on her own for a few seconds, and into pretty much everything. She also

has gotten her first tooth (and after only 4 short months of teething?!) is waving, and heaven help us-talking. She says Mommmmmmaaaa, Dadddddaaaaa, hi baby, peekaboo, and some have even heard Grandpa.

She loves playing with Boy Wonder and laughing at him! The other day she even crawled over to where he was laying on the floor and threw herself on top of him an a bodyslamesque manner. She loves to dance and play with the toy guitars and signing into the microphone, and playing peekaboo.

At dinner you LOVE to run your food caked hands through your hair and have figured out how to use a cup which isn't surprising since you are so smart (genius really but I don't want to brag).

Mama I'm a Big Girl Now

And now she sits up...

6 Months

Can it already be a half a year since Baby Wonder came into our family? She is rolling and scouching all over the place. She watches Boy Wonder with sheer awe, and follows his every move, and laughs at everything he does.

The baby who slept all the time for the first three months is now the same baby who is starting to wake up during the night and wanting to play. The other night she was smiling and rocking up on her hands and knees. When do babies learn to tell time and recognize that it is 2am?!

She has started eating veggies and can't get enough of them. At her well baby visit last week she weighed 17 lbs (75% percentile) and is 26.75 inches (85% percentile).

The past six months have been so much fun watching her. I know that she is going to change even more in the next six months, and while I am excited for that, I hope that changes of the crawling/walking/running kind don't happen for a while.

Baby Wonder Likes It, She Really Likes It!

Baby Wonder enjoyed her first bite of baby cereal. Today rice cereal, tomorrow pureed green beans. Yum.

5 Months

Baby Wonder is five months old. She is growing and changing everyday. She has been rolling over from her back to her tummy for months now, but has accidentally starting rolling from her back to her tummy. She looks surprised every time she does it.

She is reaching for her toys and putting everything in her mouth. She has been drooling like crazy and we suspect that she may be working on some teeth. The past few weeks she has continued her diva training. She defiantly knows what she wants, when she wants it, and if we don't oblige her she lets us know. If she is eating and she decides she is not hungry she will arch her back, and cry until she gets her nuk. Then she looks at you and like "Finally. I am surrounded by incompetence."

Baby Wonder likes playing in her exersauser, hanging out in the Baby Bjorn. She thinks everything Boy Wonder does is hilarious. She likes to sleep on her tummy and no matter how often I roll her onto her back, she rolls right over onto her stomach.

She is starting to laugh when you tickle her on her belly and under her chin. It continues to be music to our ears.

Four Months Old

Baby Wonder was four months old last week. Can you believe it?! To celebrate she had her well baby check up. Baby Wonder now weighs 15lbs 8oz (90th percentile) and is 25 inches long (75th percentile). That means she has gained almost 8 pounds and has grown 5 1/2 inches since she was born.

She is getting so big! She is rolling from her back to her tummy, holding her head up while she is laying on her tummy, "talking" to us, laughing, grasping at toys and then putting them in her mouth. She turns her head to see who is talking, especially when she hears Boy Wonder. When she sits in her bouncy chair she tries to sit up. She is so strong and the traces of the tiny baby we brought home from the hospital are almost gone. In their place there are the makings of a beautiful little baby who, according to her brother "tastes like sugar."

And We Are Off...

There is no question about it, babies grow so fast. Before your eyes they move from one stage to the next, and with each stage a new chapter begins. For me each stage comes with mixed emotions of excitement and sadness. Excitement as they grow and learn new things, and a bit of sadness as they move farther from the little baby we brought home.

Yesterday Baby Wonder moved forward, and frankly, it terrifies me. She did something that I knew that one day she would, and I have been dreading it since she came home. She rolled over and became a baby on the move.

Boy Wonder was about the same age when he made the leap to being a baby on the move. I have been hoping that Baby Wonder would not follow in her brother's footsteps when it came to this chapter. But as with everything else, she has decided to do things her way. So baby girl, congratulations on your this big milestone! Mom and Dad are so proud of you, but if you wouldn't mind not crawling for awhile we would appreciate it.

The Great Debate

The big question these days is does Baby Wonder look like Boy Wonder when he was a baby?

Comments are now working so you let us know what you think.

We have been to the mountain top

Earlier this week Baby Wonder slept from 10pm to 3am. Five hours of sleep made me pretty excited. Then it happened...

On Tuesday night she slept from 11pm to 6am. That's right. She slept through the night. Knowing that it can take babies awhile before they consistently sleep through the night, I was not very optimistic that she would do it again last night. Well, she almost did it again. Last night she slept from 11pm to 1:30am, was awake for 30 minutes then slept until 6am.

The most amazing thing about her sleeping so much at night is that she sleeps most of the day. I am not exaggerating. When you add it up she is awake for about 4-5 hours all day. Wether she is asleep or awake she is so darn cute!