Happy 5 month birthday to our baby girl!
We celebrated with SWEET POTATOES! I think she got a better deal than her sister, who celebrated with squash!
It got a little messy, but she ended up downing the ENTIRE jar of sweet potatoes… piggy, piggy! Apparently, she’s down with this whole baby food thing, here’s hoping she keeps the same appetite when it’s peas!
Hard to believe she’s growing up so fast!
I know, I know… I’m a slacker. But the last few weeks have been very busy for us, and last Thursday was the first day in a long time we were all home together. So I decided to not spend a good portion of the evening working on the computer.
Anyway, on to the update… Audrey is still growing like crazy. She is a rolling fiend now. We can’t lay her down at all without her flipping over. The funny thing is, she likes to roll from back to front, while most babies roll the other way first. But Audrey likes to be on her tummy, looking around at everything.
When she is on her back, though, she is typically doing this:
She’s been getting better at eating cereal, although she isn’t taking to it like Laney did. I seem to remember that Laney was ALL ABOUT eating when we started introducing her to cereal. By the second or third time she was a total baby bird with her mouth open. Audrey, well, Audrey could really take or leave the whole eating thing. She’d way rather nurse, and gets rather angry if we try to feed her cereal instead of nursing her when she’s really hungry. So, we’re going to have the daycare start giving her some cereal, too, and we’ll start introducing more foods in a couple of weeks, when she’s five months. Which is actually next week… eek! Not sure I’m ready for that!!
Speaking of daycare, it’s going pretty well. She’s the only little baby there most of the time, so she gets lots of attention! She’s had a cold since about her second week there, but that’s kind of to be expected. I’m sure it’ll pass and she’ll get all better! Overall, very happy with Cannery Row.
I think that’s about it as far as updates… Audrey is still a very mellow, VERY smiley baby. And she’s really starting to talk, too, which is always fun. She loves being tickled, even though laughing gives her the hiccups. And she loves “flying” in the air above my head. And she is a TOTAL blanket baby… loves to snuggle with her blankie… any of them!
So, now with a couple of random pictures…
She fits in Laney’s first Easter dress! It’s a little big on her, but it kind of confirms my thinking that she’s a little bigger than Laney- Laney didn’t wear it until she was 6 months old!
Funny story about that picture of her, it’s from church, and I didn’t take it. I have no idea who did. But it’s cute! :)
Last Saturday we actually had an entire day to ourselves with NOTHING planned (it was wonderful) so we took the girls swimming at the ARC. We’d been there for about an hour and a half when I looked down and poor Audrey’s lips were blue! So, we decided to get her out. I wrapped her all up in a towel and she stuck her thumb in her mouth and PASSED OUT! The picture isn’t great, but I was trying to hold her and take it… it was so cute! 
So there’s the update… not many pictures for a two week post, but we have just been so busy, I haven’t even had five minutes to take pictures of my beautiful family! When I do have five minutes, I’d rather be playing with them than behind the camera. Life with two kids is a little crazy! But we sure do love watching our beautiful little girls grow!
Week 19 was a big week for Miss Audrey! We had several firsts, and she’s just growing so fast!
She’s gotten much more interested in playing- looking at herself in the mirror, hanging out on the floor, just chillin and watching what’s going on around her. And with Elena around, there’s LOTS going on all the time! :) And, of course, it makes for good pictures…
Love the ornery look!
This weekend we headed to Windermere with the youth group for The Edge (I’m trying to get a post up about that on the other blog, but I probably have 300 pictures, so I just don’t see that happening very quickly). Laney stayed at home with Grandma & Grandpa, but Audrey tagged along (she’s a lot less distracting than Elena, and, of course, I’m the food source!).
One big first from the weekend: Audrey slept on the top bunk! :)
So tiny in the big bed! She slept good, though- I had to wake her up in the morning! I love having good sleepers!
For part of the afternoon we have some free time, and it was so blazing hot that we hit the pool! It was Audrey’s second time swimming (she went at the family reunion), but it was the first time Daddy got to go with her! They sure had fun…
She HATED floating on her back!
And, of course, there was lots of hanging out with Uncle Charlie! :)
The REALLY big first this week was eating cereal for the first time!! She’s four months now, so we started her on some rice cereal, which is always entertaining!
Ready to eat! All smiles…
Daddy… what is Mommy doing to me?!
And the difference with having a big sister- she always wants to help!
She’s still not too sure about the whole cereal thing, but she’s getting better at it! It’s hard to believe she’s already big enough to eat cereal!!
Other than that, it was Audrey’s second week at daycare, and it went pretty well. She has gotten a bit of a cold, which is pretty much expected after her first week at daycare! It doesn’t seem to bother her too much, but the cough has caused her to lose her voice some, and it is just the most pitiful thing to hear her try to cry when she doesn’t really have a voice!
Before she lost it, she had really started to discover her voice before the cough, though… check out this video:
She’s really started just randomly screaming and “talking” even when she’s not unhappy. It has certainly increased the noise level in our house (not that it needed it!).
She continues to grow and change… can’t believe how fast it is all going!
Well, week 18 was actually a pretty exciting week, considering the lack of pictures!
Audrey has gotten a lot better at rolling over. She can roll both directions, although she doesn’t do it often. I feel like once Laney learned to roll over, she was everywhere. Audrey seems like she’s a little calmer. She can roll over if she wants to (usually), but is pretty content to stay where she is and look around. She is always watching everything. Even when we lay her down with her mirror, she’s more interested in everything else, rather than looking at the toys.
Her eyes have already changed colors. They are a dark greenish color right now. I’m interested to see if they stay green or turn brown, like Laney’s did.
Sometimes rolling over is too hard!
Pretty much the only picture of Audrey that I took from our adventure to Louisville (read more about that on the other blog). Sitting up in her stroller at the zoo, just like a big girl! :)
So there’s the grand total of good pictures from this week! IT was a fun week, though. Over the weekend we went on a little Looten family adventure to Louisville, KY, where we toured the seminary campus, went to the zoo, and just explored Louisville some. More on that on the other blog…
This Monday marked my first day back at work full time, an Audrey’s first week of daycare. It wasn’t easy to leave her, but it was easier than with Laney. Probably because Laney was helping me take her to her room, so I had to hold it together for her! :) But Audrey has been fine this week, and has been well taken care of, so I guess I don’t have much to complain about!
We also had Audrey’s 4 month checkup this week. First off, the stats:
Height: 23 1/2 inches
Weight: 12lbs, 13 ounces
Head circumference: 16 1/4 inches
Percentage-wise, that’s 25%, 25%, and 60%… looks like we got another little girl with a big head! :) And she’s gained 2 lbs, 12 ounces in two months! She’s getting downright chunky! But at least the thigh rolls are cute! :)
The doctor also took a look at her torticollis and said that he didn’t think it would be a problem. He said to keep doing what we’re doing- putting toys on her left, encouraging her to look that way, and giving her lots of tummy time.
Anyway, they said she looked really good, and she even escaped shots because they were out of one of them… unfortunately for her, we’re headed back next week to get them!
She continues to be a very mellow, calm baby. She rarely cries unless she’s tired or hungry. And she is a total blanket baby… she can be fussing and whining, and if you toss a blanket over her she immediately calms down and starts snuggling!
Guess that’s about it from week 18… loving watching my littlest girl grow! :)
