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Archive for September, 2007

Falling off the chair

Bella is laying down on the desk stool in the kitchen between Paul’s legs. Before we caught this on video she was sitting there and then all of a sudden decided to test her legs out – she almost shot off of the stool before she was caught.

Trying her high chair out

This was the first time Bella sat in her high chair. We gave her a couple toys and she really seemed to enjoy being able to sit up and play with them.

3 Months have passed, what!?!

Okay, so the last post was at 10 weeks and I just posted it today and she’s 3 mths old already-so sue me:). Ever since I started back to work, it feels like every waking moment not at work or preparing to go to work is spent soaking up all the sweetness and love I can get from Bella once we pick her up from daycare. Work is getting back to normal, although I’m still catching up from all the stuff they left for me (they just didn’t do while I was gone).

Let’s see now, what’s happened over the last month? Bella’s started to sleep thru the night on a regular basis. The bathtime routine we started over a month ago has really helped her sleep at least 8 hours a night, if not 9 or 10. Most of the time when she goes to sleep around 8-9 and wakes up 8 hours later to eat, she’ll usually go right back to sleep until it’s time to go to daycare. Her schedule during the day is pretty consistent of the eat, wake, sleep routine. She’s eating 6 ounces at each feeding usually and is getting into the habit of eating from both breasts (which she rarely did until a week ago).

She did get thrush on her first day of daycare but the two incidents were not related. We went to the doctor and got some medicine drops which she didn’t really mind taking. I called it her ‘banana milkshake’ since we had to shake it really hard before giving it to her and it smelled fruity with a yellowish coloring. She never showed any side effects from the medicine except for some diarrhea when she had to go on a 3rd bottle of medicine. Bella still has some thrush marks in her mouth but the doctor said since it hasn’t effected her eating habits, we’ll stop the medicine and see if she can just get rid of it on her own. I’m still taking some topical ointment on the nipples to keep from giving it back to her.

Paul just walked in and started playing with Bella on the floor, she just woke up from her nap so I’ll have to make this last part short. Paul is such a great Daddy-he’s been taking her to daycare and picking her up sometimes also to help with my work schedule. (Bella just burped a really good one-she’s definitely part of the Thompson family. Her teachers are impressed with her burping abilities too-she can outburp anyone in the room:) Back to Paul, he’s great with Bella. He gives her great baths at night, letting her swim around when she wants and splashing water all over the place. It’s really cute when he blows the water out of her belly button right before he hands her to me to dry off. Right now, he’s holding her while playing a computer game and I can hear them talking back and forth-it’s so cute and sweet, I wish I could take a video of every moment to relish it forever.

Okay, one more sweet moment before I close out. She’s been sucking on her fingers for a few weeks now, then it converted to just the thumb and now we’re back to just whatever fingers she can find. We don’t use a pacifier so I’m hoping she gets out of this phase soon, which all the books say she will. Anyway, Paul and I were joking the other day that eventually it will convert from the thumb thing to the thumb in the mouth and the index finger in the nose thing-we had a good laugh. Then on Thursday night, Paul was letting her swim around relaxing in the pool (Bella’s bath) and he said I to look quick-sure enough, she had her middle finger in her mouth and the index finger in the nose. Boy, did we laugh hard over that. She’s done it once since then and it’s funny every time. When she’s 1 yr old, all this stuff won’t be so funny but right now, we can’t help but laugh and enjoy every minute of it.