...at the speed of life, this post is about baby growing at the speed of sound!
And not just growing - really developing into a feisty little person who is smart, alert, and generally happy.
I think I've missed out - or perhaps, you've missed out - because a lot of what I post here is more on the topic of parenting than on Spoiled Baby growing up. After all, this blog grew out of my prior adventures in TTC-land over at How to Have a Baby, and trust me, that's an extremely personal blog with details on Spoiled Baby since she was Spoiled Bunny.
So in light of this Fabulous Friday, I thought I'd announce that I'm going to start writing more baby-centric posts...be prepared to be inundated with cute (at least, to me) stories about the cutest baby - and yes, pictures included.
To catch you up on the first 24 weeks of her life, I'm going to put up posts that each cover 4 weeks - a 6-post look at when she learned what and how she looked doing it. That'll take us to next Thursday, when she'll actually be 24 weeks old!
And yes, I'll admit that I'm OCD enough to be annoyed that 24 weeks doesn't actually equate to 6 months...whoever designed the calendar really ought to have made each month a perfect 28 days so my head didn't have to hurt.
Have a fabulous Friday, ya'll, and come back later today and for the next 5 days for "Dear Catherine," weeks 1-24.
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Definitely Sweet, Not a Pea
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Happy Friday, everyone!
It's a fabulous Friday in our world, and the baby is especially happen now that she's finished off today's new food adventure.
Isn't introducing solid foods fun? Yes, I know we're fast-forwarding a bit. Our pediatrician told us to go ahead with trying rice and oatmeal cereals when Spoiled Baby was just over 4 weeks old. According to the little handout she gave us, we were supposed to wait, then, until 6 months to start fruits and then 7 months to start vegetables.
And then Funny Daddy found baby food on sale at the grocery store. Despite the fact that we had planned on making our own baby food.
So he bought it...and she loved cereal...so we figured what the heck! Let's give it a try. If it upsets her tummy or makes her sick in any other way, we'd quit.
It's been a huge success, though! Baby LOVES LOVES LOVES bananas and apple sauce.
Prunes, however, were not quite a hit. In fact, the only good thing about trying that particular food was that it helped me to invent a new color: prune puke purple. Yeah, no go.
The last two foods we've tried have been the most adventurous, however.
With the first, every spoonful that goes in her mouth is followed by an awful gagging sound, a hideous face, and her tongue quickly poking the food back out.
With the second, she kept licking her lips and waited expectantly for each new spoonful to arrive. Unfortunately, she was having so much fun eating that she started blowing bubbles. Which then led to food being smeared all over her face and bib. But boy did she love it.
Spoiled baby is definitely a sweet potato fan...not a lover of peas!
What do your little ones like to eat best?
It's a fabulous Friday in our world, and the baby is especially happen now that she's finished off today's new food adventure.
Isn't introducing solid foods fun? Yes, I know we're fast-forwarding a bit. Our pediatrician told us to go ahead with trying rice and oatmeal cereals when Spoiled Baby was just over 4 weeks old. According to the little handout she gave us, we were supposed to wait, then, until 6 months to start fruits and then 7 months to start vegetables.
And then Funny Daddy found baby food on sale at the grocery store. Despite the fact that we had planned on making our own baby food.
So he bought it...and she loved cereal...so we figured what the heck! Let's give it a try. If it upsets her tummy or makes her sick in any other way, we'd quit.
It's been a huge success, though! Baby LOVES LOVES LOVES bananas and apple sauce.
Prunes, however, were not quite a hit. In fact, the only good thing about trying that particular food was that it helped me to invent a new color: prune puke purple. Yeah, no go.
The last two foods we've tried have been the most adventurous, however.
With the first, every spoonful that goes in her mouth is followed by an awful gagging sound, a hideous face, and her tongue quickly poking the food back out.
With the second, she kept licking her lips and waited expectantly for each new spoonful to arrive. Unfortunately, she was having so much fun eating that she started blowing bubbles. Which then led to food being smeared all over her face and bib. But boy did she love it.
Spoiled baby is definitely a sweet potato fan...not a lover of peas!
What do your little ones like to eat best?
What's In a Smile?
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For today's Fabulous Friday post, I just couldn't resist gushing about Spoiled Baby's smile.
Funny Daddy pointed out the other day that while he can get her laughing pretty hard sometimes, she saves all of her best smiles for moi. And those smiles are what make being a Frazzled Mommy so darn worthwhile.
Sometimes, Spoiled Baby will be in her swing, playing with a toy or watching Disney while I'm working on something else. And suddenly, she'll just look up in my direction and get a big grin on her face. Oh, what a beautiful child.
Mommies, tell me about your kiddo's smiles. When do they turn them on? How do they make you feel? To what (goofy) lengths will you go to, to coax a grin?
Funny Daddy pointed out the other day that while he can get her laughing pretty hard sometimes, she saves all of her best smiles for moi. And those smiles are what make being a Frazzled Mommy so darn worthwhile.
Sometimes, Spoiled Baby will be in her swing, playing with a toy or watching Disney while I'm working on something else. And suddenly, she'll just look up in my direction and get a big grin on her face. Oh, what a beautiful child.
Mommies, tell me about your kiddo's smiles. When do they turn them on? How do they make you feel? To what (goofy) lengths will you go to, to coax a grin?
First Fabulous Friday
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This is our First Fabulous Friday with our new little one, Catherine Elizabeth. I'm sitting here in my hospital room, where my baby is propped against my belly a la a pillow, my husband is passed out in the cot next to me, and I'm on the internet blogging...how full is my life? :-)
This has just been the best experience - minus the 1 hour and 40 minutes between when the doctor broke my water and my epidural set in! We've had a bunch of visitors, gotten flowers and baskets from both of our jobs as well as other friends, and Catherine's gotten wishes of welcome through the internet from all over the globe. Life is way good!
We get to head home tomorrow. Discharge is "no later than" 1 PM but I think we're going to plan to leave earlier. Have to wait to get one last check up for me (let's not even discuss my massive swelling around my "little" tear) and one last check up for baby (who is doing WONDERFULLY!) and then they'll check out the car seat (which is funny since as a state police officer, my husband is also a certified car seat technician so I'm *pretty* sure the dang thing is in there just fine) and we'll head off. We're expecting Chris' aunt and uncle as well as his brother and his brother's girlfriend to visit either tomorrow or Sunday and then we'll begin the job of setting up our new routines in life!
I will be heading into my office for a *short* while on Monday to drop off my work laptop (someone else might as well use it while I'm out) and my budget work (Catherine came 1 day too early for me to finish beforehand) and my leave/disability paperwork. Chris will be heading into work for a *short* while probably on Wednesday to finish clearing out his stuff from his office (he's transferring from the Dallas office to the Fort Worth office) and to turn in his state vehicle since he'll get a different one from his new office. In between, Little Miss has her first pediatrician appointment on Tuesday morning - yay! So we already have a busy week on the horizon!
Hope all is well with you, dear reader! I look forward to sharing our journey with Catherine with you as she grows and our family evolves!
This has just been the best experience - minus the 1 hour and 40 minutes between when the doctor broke my water and my epidural set in! We've had a bunch of visitors, gotten flowers and baskets from both of our jobs as well as other friends, and Catherine's gotten wishes of welcome through the internet from all over the globe. Life is way good!
We get to head home tomorrow. Discharge is "no later than" 1 PM but I think we're going to plan to leave earlier. Have to wait to get one last check up for me (let's not even discuss my massive swelling around my "little" tear) and one last check up for baby (who is doing WONDERFULLY!) and then they'll check out the car seat (which is funny since as a state police officer, my husband is also a certified car seat technician so I'm *pretty* sure the dang thing is in there just fine) and we'll head off. We're expecting Chris' aunt and uncle as well as his brother and his brother's girlfriend to visit either tomorrow or Sunday and then we'll begin the job of setting up our new routines in life!
I will be heading into my office for a *short* while on Monday to drop off my work laptop (someone else might as well use it while I'm out) and my budget work (Catherine came 1 day too early for me to finish beforehand) and my leave/disability paperwork. Chris will be heading into work for a *short* while probably on Wednesday to finish clearing out his stuff from his office (he's transferring from the Dallas office to the Fort Worth office) and to turn in his state vehicle since he'll get a different one from his new office. In between, Little Miss has her first pediatrician appointment on Tuesday morning - yay! So we already have a busy week on the horizon!
Hope all is well with you, dear reader! I look forward to sharing our journey with Catherine with you as she grows and our family evolves!
Another Fabulous Friday
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It occurred to me today that with Spoiled Baby making her own plans to enter the world (see the post on that over at How to Have a Baby), I won't have many more Fridays without her by my side! In fact...this could be my last. Wow!
It's incredible to look back and realize how much time has passed since we first found out she was coming. Absolutely incredible. And although it now seems that life is in fast forward and she'll be here before we know it...I can't wait!
Although, really, I can. First...she needs to grow, just a bit more. Second...I need Funny Daddy to get home before she gets here. (See the post on where he is over at Breakfast at Tiffany's.)
Question to all you mamas out there - in the last weeks of your pregnancies, what were you most looking forward to, other than the obvious fact that your baby would soon be a part of the world?
Have a great weekend, ya'll!
It's incredible to look back and realize how much time has passed since we first found out she was coming. Absolutely incredible. And although it now seems that life is in fast forward and she'll be here before we know it...I can't wait!
Although, really, I can. First...she needs to grow, just a bit more. Second...I need Funny Daddy to get home before she gets here. (See the post on where he is over at Breakfast at Tiffany's.)
Question to all you mamas out there - in the last weeks of your pregnancies, what were you most looking forward to, other than the obvious fact that your baby would soon be a part of the world?
Have a great weekend, ya'll!
Friday, Already?
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Goodness...with it being a shortened week for the Labor Day holiday, Friday certainly seemed to get here fast, didn't it?
What's your favorite part about looking forward to Friday? Or, if you're a stay at home mama, is Friday really much different than any other day?
I think that between school and the working world, we get so focused on Friday being the release at the end of the week that sometimes it builds up too much. And then...it's Friday. Kay. Now what?
Any interesting plans for the weekend? I'm working all day today and then heading to another local high school to judge a speech tournament tonight and tomorrow. No plans yet for Sunday - and for that, I'm grateful! My husband and I haven't had a quiet day around the house just to ourselves in about a month, so I'm looking forward to it. Those quiet "just the two of us days" will be ending so soon with Spoiled Baby's arrival!!! And then I think I'll forget what quiet means...
Have a great weekend ya'll!
What's your favorite part about looking forward to Friday? Or, if you're a stay at home mama, is Friday really much different than any other day?
I think that between school and the working world, we get so focused on Friday being the release at the end of the week that sometimes it builds up too much. And then...it's Friday. Kay. Now what?
Any interesting plans for the weekend? I'm working all day today and then heading to another local high school to judge a speech tournament tonight and tomorrow. No plans yet for Sunday - and for that, I'm grateful! My husband and I haven't had a quiet day around the house just to ourselves in about a month, so I'm looking forward to it. Those quiet "just the two of us days" will be ending so soon with Spoiled Baby's arrival!!! And then I think I'll forget what quiet means...
Have a great weekend ya'll!
Fabulous Friday
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Hi, Folks!
It's a Fabulous Friday in my world - how about all of you?
In addition to my full-time job, I take on a lot of freelance web content creation work. I am not a morning person, but I have found that my optimal time to work on some of my projects is early in the morning - like 6 AM - before I head out the door to my full-time job. (Where I'm at now, by the way, on my lunch break!)
This morning, I was working on a few little articles, in a house that was very quiet for the first hour. Then, at 7, the house woke up. The cat started whining, the dogs wanted to be let out, and Catherine woke up and started kicking the heck out of me.
And that made it a fabulous Friday because I can just picture, actually here and born in just over another month - going through the same routine! Mama will get up to write for a bit, baby may nap in her pack and play for awhile, but eventually she'll wake up and want my attention. I love looking forward to that!
Have a great weekend, ya'll!
Tiffany
It's a Fabulous Friday in my world - how about all of you?
In addition to my full-time job, I take on a lot of freelance web content creation work. I am not a morning person, but I have found that my optimal time to work on some of my projects is early in the morning - like 6 AM - before I head out the door to my full-time job. (Where I'm at now, by the way, on my lunch break!)
This morning, I was working on a few little articles, in a house that was very quiet for the first hour. Then, at 7, the house woke up. The cat started whining, the dogs wanted to be let out, and Catherine woke up and started kicking the heck out of me.
And that made it a fabulous Friday because I can just picture, actually here and born in just over another month - going through the same routine! Mama will get up to write for a bit, baby may nap in her pack and play for awhile, but eventually she'll wake up and want my attention. I love looking forward to that!
Have a great weekend, ya'll!
Tiffany
