May 10th -
On May 7th our little Hadassah turned 7 months old and she is definitely growing. We had to go to the doctor yesterday and she weighed 16 lbs 6 oz. Haddie is now in the 50th percentile for weight. She has come a long way in the 2 months since I started staying home. At the beginning of March Haddie was below the 5th percentile in weight. Just even more confirmation that our decision for me to stay home now was the right one.
Also Haddie seems to be a little bow legged but just on her right leg so we are being referred to an Orthopedist. Our pediatrician suggested at first that we just watch it, but when I informed her of Keith's leg issues as a child she thought it would be better to go ahead and have someone else look at Haddie. I'll update when we have more information.
What's Haddie doing now? She is sitting up very well. Today Haddie has started catching herself with her arm as she falls back. She still ends up falling back completely, but she is able to hold herself up for a few more seconds.
Haddie is finally sleeping in her bed. Since she was about 6 weeks old she has been sleeping in her swing because of her reflux/spitting up. It was the only way I could get her to sleep for more than 3 hours at a time.
May 18th -
In the past week Haddie has started leaning to see Keith or I. Right now I'm sitting on the floor with the computer in my lap and Haddie is leaning from one side to the other so she can see Keith.
It's absolutely the best thing in the world to see your child develop. I think I have said it before, but - before Haddie was born I wondered how other parents kept up with the new developments - now I know. May 29th -
Life is always changing and it seems I have the best of intentions of blogging and even start one, but then never get it posted.
The newest event for Haddie is that she is finally rolling over! Yeahhhhh!!!!! Before this past Thursday she had only rolled over 5 times. Since then she rolls over every time I put her on her stomach - that is if I'm not watching. Thursday morning I was on the floor with her working on a few things the physical therapist suggested to help encourage Haddie to roll over. She wasn't interested at all so I left her in tummy time and went to the kitchen to get a little done. Next thing I know she is on her back. She rolled over 3 times and then I decided to sit and watch. Haddie got half way over and looked up at me, we made eye contact and then she went back to her stomach. WHAT? My daughter is already playing games with me. She did that again and then I decided to do something else but watch her out of the corner of my eye. Again Haddie got to her side, looked up at me and when I didn't make eye contact she rolled over completely. As my Dad said yesterday - I'm gonna be paying for my raising! I already knew I had it coming to me, but I figured I had a few years at least. Too funny.
We took in our first baseball game as a family earlier this month. The residents at Keith's building we going so we joined in. Some of our friends joined us also. We all had a great time.
Haddie's 1st boat ride. Appropriately enough on Papa and Nana's boat. She looks like she is enjoying it in this picture, but really she didn't. Mainly she didn't like the life jacket. As long as I kept her standing she was ok. We put her in the water a little and she loved it. Thank goodness! This mom is praying her kids love the water!
Haddie has started feeding herself. She actually got the spoon to her mouth without help from us. Keith is great at letting her try new things. Me not so much. :) I need to just strip her down to her diaper so I'm not so uptight about getting so messy. I'll learn one of these day.
Doesn't Haddie look so cute in the hospital gown. Yes we were at the hospital. Everything is fine, but we had a little scare. About a week ago Haddie started spitting up blood. At first I thought I knew the reason so I didn't worry about it until she continued. In the end we found out we needed to put her back on Zantac. We had gone off it about a week earlier. Apparently she had a tear or small ulcer in her stomach. When we went off the Zantac the acid irritated it just enough to start bleading. By the time we got to the ER she hadn't had bad spit up for a few hours and didn't have any after that. All is fine, but just enough to terrify me. Keith was absolutely wonderful!
Onto another note. Yesterday I got myself a new toy. I have started training for a 5k. http://www.c25k.com/ I'm really enjoying it. When Haddie was born we got a relatively inexpensive jogging stroller and I figured if I actually used it I would get a better one. Well I'm using it and found a great deal on a slightly used Bob Revolution - exactly what I wanted - the right color to. Here it is!
Did I say I love my new toy? :)
Well since I got my knew toy Keith decided he was getting a new toy for himself. He has been wanting to buy this for a while now, but I kept talking him out of it. Since I got my toy I had no room to try and continue talking him out of his toy and he knew it and took major advantage of it. We went and picked it up this morning and he is already making great use out of it. Doesn't he look so proud of himself.
That was a pretty good size tree he was able to get down with a good chain saw in less than 10 minutes. It didn't damage anything else either. The last tree Keith took down fell on the house. No damage, but I was quite nervous. I suppose by spending money on his toy we are actually saving money by not paying someone else to take these trees out. My toy is just that - a toy - I'm still going to enjoy it. :)
***Update on Haddie's leg. We went to the doctor about her bowed leg this week and she didn't see anything out of the ordinary for this age. She was slightly concerned about her hips so took a few xrays, but all looked good.
We are so richly blessed by Haddie's life! I really can't say that enough.
Until next time :)
