Carrots, Avocados and Rice Oh My!

She's eating...

Well she has been eating quite well for 6 months but now she's eating more like the rest of us do. Esther enjoys the brown rice cereal mixed with breast milk and the avocado mixed with breast milk (be careful eating guacomole at our house... haha). She is less sure about the carrots, and as of now pretty much refuses to eat them, though we are going to continue to try little bits at a time.

Esther is 6 monthes and about 2 weeks old now and is doing great! At her 6-month check-up she weighed 16 lbs and was 26.5 inches long. I was very excited about her weight because she has doubled her birth weight in 4-6 months (recommended by most pediatricians), overall she is in the 50th percentile for weight and the 75th for height/length.

Developmentally she is holding her own... toys, books, spoon (not eating just holding). She is also grabbing... this is fun!! (I am trying to convince myself of this) She reaches for everything, my cup of coffee or tea, my sandwich, my glasses, necklace, hair (why did I decide to grow it out?), earrings, pretty much everything that looks remotely interesting. Thankfully she has not succeeded in reaching some of those things, like the coffee and tea. She is sitting quite well, and has begun scooching on her hands and knees. She can't quite crawl but kind of backs up a little and we are holding the crawling vigil because she is at the point where we are saying "A month from now she'll be crawling, but it could happen any day!"

Esther is laughing and cracks herself up from time to time, she babbles a lot and seems to understand some of what we say. We've witnessed some of her mischevious side when we say "no" and she looks at us as if to say "really...". She expereinced her first cold and is on the tail end of clearing out some congestion from her lungs but is well past the worst. And she is one of the most expressive babies I have seen, this is shared by some of my pedi-nurse friends who have seen their fair share of babies.

Here are is a little video of Esther's first food experience... Enjoy!

2 months of Esther

Well the past 2 months have been a blur! Partially because I keep forgetting to put my glasses on; partially because when I am lacking sleep my brain has a hard time focusing but mostly because we have had so much fun getting to know our beautiful little girl!

Esther has been doing wonderfully, she is about 24 inches long and weighs around 11 lbs. She is a good eater and get pretty upset when she is not fed regularly.

We are starting to see glimpses of her personality and she is definitely interacting a lot more with us. She talks quite a bit when she is awake, if only we could understand her. She also likes to watch the lights and everthing going on around her. She has a beautiful smile that creeps out every so often, more and more each day.

Gotta run for now but enjoy the pictures!!