fully mobile

Alexandra is fully mobile. She got the crawling thing down to a science now and everything above her head is something to grab on to and pull herself up. The funniest thing is... She screams while she tries something new. Out of frustration for not getting it as easily as she probably imagined it would be. I can't help it. I have to laugh. She's hysterical. I hope I'm not spoiling her by laughing instead of correcting her. But it's just too funny. Everything she does is funny. Am I a bad parent? I'm afraid I'm raising a little monster just because I'm amused by her quirkiness.  

first 2 teeth

On April 20 we found her first tooth. Bottom right. On May 13 we found the second. Bottom left. 

Since Mother's Day she's been doing a lot of standing up and moving from side to side as long as she can grab on to things. 

She's busy all right. And very proud of herself.

She's also been very fussy. I wonder whether it's her teeth or that cold that she has going on.

I'm glad we put the gate up in our bedroom.

up in crib

Today mom put Alexandra down for a nap in her crib and the little freak stood up. Trouble. 

I'm not sure if I wrote this here, but on May 1 she opened my supplies drawer. We bought drawer locks. 

The funniest thing wasn't the opening and exploration of the drawer, but her realization that she couldn't close it. And now her legs were stuck under it. Her face of "help me, mom" was priceless. What did I do? Help my baby? No. Took a picture of it!

I'm evil... 

stand up, baby

On Sunday she pulled herself up by holding on to the bed. 

Now she's crawling. slowly, but still crawling.

I put my butt up in the air sometimes

Since last Sunday, Alexandra has been sitting up, and sticking her butt up in the air, as if trying to stand up. He's done it faster and faster. Which means she's very mobile around the room. It's time for us to put up baby gates. Is also time for us to start proofing the house. This morning, she managed to open a low drawer, and start pulling things out of it.

comidinhas e dentinhos

O abacate não fez sucesso na quinta-feira. Na sexta-feira de banana macho cadinho e ela amou. Ontem, sábado, ela fez seis meses. Dei uma sopinha de verdura batida em forma de papinha. Sucesso absoluto. E eu fiquei com medo que ela não gostasse porque não tinha sal. 

Infelizmente o cocô também já começou a mudar. Agora vai dar muito mais trabalho lavar as fraldas. O meu medo é que ela tenha prisão de ventre. Agora também estou dando suquinho de ameixa seca para evitar prisão de ventre. Ela gosta de suco de ameixa. Ela também ainda pede muito pelo leite materno.

 Estou preocupada que a produção de leite está muito menor. Acho que é por causa da gravidez. Mas a pediatra dela acha que é porque eu não estou conseguindo líquidos. Vou tentar consumir mais líquidos. Infelizmente suprimento que tem no freezer está quase acabando. Vamos ter que economizar com eles. E vou tirar o máximo que eu puder.

Outra coisa que ela tem feito nas últimas semanas, descer da cama engatinhando de costas. Logo se vê que essa criança não tem noção do perigo. Se não tiver alguém pra pegar, ela vai levar um tombaço. Mas ela não está nem aí.

Na quarta-feira Dean descobriu um Dentinho nascendo na parte de baixo da boca. Foi quando eu levei ela no trabalho dele pra os colegas do trabalho conhecerem. Graças a Deus, até agora ela não chorou nem teve febre. O Dentinho está nascendo é o da frente a parte de baixo do lado direito.

É meio nostálgico pensar que em breve não teremos mais aquele sorriso banguela.

hold her

Poor baby can only move backwards. It must be so frustrating. She tries to reach something and only gets farther from it. She ends up under couches and cribs and beds. Yesterday she tried to squirm her way out from under the couch and things went awry. Mom had to come to the rescue - with grandma watching everything on FaceTime. 

Two days ago she tried to go from sitting to crawling and couldn't unstuck her front leg. I wasn't planning on helping, bc I want to see her getting out of her troubles and working out her issues on her own. But the desperate little face looking at me was what did it. She had had it with trying. She just needed mom for a few minutes. I figured "you know what - she won't want me for too many years. I better enjoy it while I can."