Happy 4th of July, 2013! It's hard to believe the year is half over already! With two kids, two full time jobs and two hour long commutes every week, weekends seem to be going by quicker that we can keep track of! But there have been a few milestones I don't want to let pass without documenting, since I know we'll want to look back years from now and see what we were doing!
To celebrate the 4th, Stella tried her first bite of real food - sweet potatoes! I mixed a teaspoon in with a little rice cereal, and much like her reaction to rice cereal, she didn't seem to like it much! I think it will be something we ease her in to, which is why we're slowly introducing the rice cereal every couple days. She is eating fairly well the last few weeks, but is still pretty thin, so we thought maybe a little rice cereal would be good. So I guess we'll need to keep slowly trying, and maybe in the next couple months she'll start enjoying it!
She's still sleeping pretty well through the night, and is usually asleep by about 8, and sleeps until 5 or 6. Her naps are getting a little more predictable some days, but she is not an easy kid to put down for a nap! We know she likes her morning naps, and that's the easiest of the day. Her second nap seems to come around lunch time, depending on how long she slept the first time (this varies based on Hudson and his noise level). Then during the week she'll nap somewhere around dinner time, but only for about 30 minutes. She is VERY easy to smile, and has started spending a few minutes a day in her bouncy chair - which she loves! She is fitting in most of her 3-6 month clothes now (at 5 months old!), but they are still big around. Her shoe size is 1 in length, but they look silly because her feet are so narrow! Looks like she has her great grandma REEVES feet (hopefully without the bunions!). She is so alert and is getting better and better at grabbing and holding things. Her favorite activity is still watching big brother. No teeth still, but the drool is there, so who knows when those first ones will arrive.
Hudson is doing great as well - he's the smart kid in class (according to his teacher) still, and is now learning his days of the week and months of the year because he knows his letters, colors, shapes, and can count to 20! He loves being with his friends, but still cries
often when i say goodbye to him in the mornings. We're seeing his social skills change in different environments, which has been interesting to watch. He is very social around those he knows, and seems to be either silly/goofy or very uncomfortable around groups/strangers. Once he gets older we think he'll grow out of this more, but its been interesting to see him change in different settings. He is a total mama's boy, and i'm told starts talking about my arrival to pick him up at daycare at least an hour before i get there. He loves his cars and trains still, and his imagination and play time have become a regular part of each day. He plays by himself more often now, though still enjoys and requests mommy or daddy to join him. He cracks us up all the time, and sometimes says the darndest things! Yesterday in the car he said "mommy, my seatbelt is too tight, it's hurting my peepee." Yes, that is exactly what he said. Hilarious.
