- ate peas for the first time and thought they were disgusting. When Chris was a little boy, he'd put his peas in a napkin in the window sill to hide them and he told his little brother Shawn "we don't eat peas". Chris eats peas now, but Shawn still says "we don't eat peas." Kalia agrees with her Uncle Shawn.
- broke her fever on Thursday...yay!
- got a rash on Friday, boo. I stopped giving her the peas because I thought maybe that was it. One of my girlfriends told me though that after her daughter has a virus, when the fever is gone and she's completely better, she breaks out in a rash. Kalia's into everything these days, so who knows what it is. Regardless, she didn't mind us cutting out the peas in her diet!
- slept pretty well Thursday, Friday, and Saturday night. Not amazing, but 6+ hours in a stretch, which felt pretty amazing after being up and down all night with her being sick. Technically 6 hours is considered sleeping through the night (whomever deemed that didn't have an infant that went to bed at 6 p.m. and woke up at midnight...doesn't seem like sleeping through the night to this tired Momma!!).
- started pretend teething again on Sunday. She's shoving everything into her mouth and chomping, chomping, chomping again, is soaking through her clothes again, and has been up repeatidly throughout the night chomping on her hands and screaming crying. We give her Tylenol, which takes a bit to kick in, and she's awake and hollering (if you leave her in her crib) until it does kick in, and then she repeats the whole process 4 hours after waking up again. Which means I'm getting anywhere from 2.5 - 3.5 hours in a stretch, then I'm up for an hour or so, and then repeating. I think Kalia and her cousin Maddie are confused. Kalia's acting like a newborn, and Maddie is doing pretty well with sleeping! In 18 years or so those chompers will come in...sigh.
- thinks getting her diaper changed is torture. The magic changing pad has turned into the torture chamber. We have to do the hokey pokey and a circus act to get her to let us change her diaper without her screaming. She has places to go and people to see, she doesn't have time for a stinkin' diaper change!! Although, if she's pooped...she will not sit in it for any amount of time at all. That stuff has to come off now, but she'll still be mad while you're doing it.
- beats herself up when she's tired and it's time for a nap or bedtime. She puts her little hand into a balled up fist and literally whacks herself upside the head repeatedly. Chris says she's saying "go to sleep, go to sleep, go to sleep" to herself. I think she's trying to tell her brain to turn off.
- is eating three times a day now. She eats at least 2 ounces for breakfast, and 2-4 ounces for lunch and dinner. She's eating off of me quite a bit less too during the day. I'd love to say the same is true at night, ha, but with the sickness / fake teething going on, that's not the case!
- still thinks Kodi is the greatest thing in the entire world. I agree! I can't tell you how many times she's throwing a fit and I call him in to calm her down. He's a great distraction!
- gave Kodi a treat for the first time on her 32 week birthday. He was really gentle with trying to take it from her, and she thought it was a great game of tug 'o war. They were both very pleased with themselves afterwards! I have video I'll upload of her giving him a treat for the 2nd time that night.
- loves to play 'explore' with Mommy. I put her down not in her safe zone and say "lets explore!!". I go wherever she goes, and she'll stop and look at me, giggle, and then keep going. It helps me figure out what we still need to baby proof, and also helps me teach her no. I find myself using the same commands I use on Kodi though. She's not going to know "no touch", she's going to know "leave it". Oops! Kodi's well trained though! Some of the times she does well with no and leave it, and some of the times she stops, smiles at me, and then goes ahead and does what she wanted to. I repeat myself and change directions with her or make a big deal out of her reaching for something else that she's allowed to have.
- is scared to death of the roomba. If she's not going to hurt herself with it, I let her see what things do, and the roomba was one of those things. She managed to turn it on, yelped, and crawled super speed to my lap.
- started this new thing where she 'bear crawls'. Instead of normal crawling, she puts her butt straight up into the air and crawls with her knees up. I thought initially it was because our hard wood floors hurt her knees or something, but she'll do it on her rug and our carpet. She's a goof!
- decided being a monkey was fun. Her naptimes are a bit of a challenge with all of her mobility. I was watching her on her monitor while she walked around the crib, and all of the sudden she took her first hand off of the crib and grabbed the top of her mobile, then took the second hand off and thought it was great that she was hanging from her mobile. She was so proud. I ran in and rescued her and took the little birdies off her mobile (the top part of the mobile came down later that day!). After that she decided that she didn't really like Mommy being able to watch what she's doing so she reached over outside of her crib and pulled on the wire that supplies the power for the camera. I moved her crib off from the wall some so she can't reach it. She's also managed to hold onto to both the top of her crib and the top of her prison yard gates and pull up hard enough to get both feet off of the ground. I'm praying that was a one time ordeal and she forgot she can do that!! Oiy!
- gets to sleep with a doll in her crib now. She's done this for a few weeks, but it helps her calm down and go to sleep. We actually introduced the doll last week and that's when she went 10-12 hours. I'd like the magic doll to work it's sleeping magic again.
- ate broccoli for the first time on her 32 week birthday. She doesn't love it, but it's not carrots or peas, so there's some improvement!
This new crawling thing makes pictures hard. She isn't interested in stopping and smiling for me at all, and for her weekly pictures, she kept flipping herself over and then trying to crawl off the chair. At one point she decided she's rather stand up on the chair. I'm definitely within an arms reach of her when she's on a high surface, and I keep one arm out ready to catch her. My other arm is going to get strong from holding up my camera one handed...and I have a feeling all of my pictures are going to be off centered for a little while!
She still loves loves loves her feet.
Here's a good action shot of her 'talking' to me and blowing rasberries. They're combined these days. Such a silly little girl!
Serious pose...
And this is Kalia's new way of saying "all done" with pictures.
First, we crawl off the pillow...
Then we stand ourselves up to get into position...
It cracks me up how she makes her bottom lip disappear when she's concentrating on something these days. She's like a little old man without any teeth!
...then we climb down!
Yeah, if that were me, my legs would break!! She was so proud of herself when she turned around. She's loving her mobility!
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