Her latest moves...

I have figured out how to load up a video! But it took 8 years to do it, so these won't come too regularly.

6 month stats

That was Paige eating peas last night. You can see the disturbed look. Too bad our camera takes blurry shots in low light.

Took Paige to the doctor today for her 6 month appointment and shots. Once again, she did not enjoy herself. These are her stats:

Weight 17lbs

Height 25 inches

Not sure if I posted 25 inches last time by accident? Don't feel like going back to check, but at any rate, she grew 5cm. She is still growing along in the 75th percentile.

This is her new "jumperoo". She goes ballistic in it and jumps around like crazy.

Crawling..

Paige has started to crawl....

She doesn't crawl in the traditional sense, but she pulls her body along using her arms and elbows. If she sees something she wants (newspaper, magazine, or remote control), she will grunt and extend her arm way out and then start inching her way along. We have seen her go about 6 feet before we have had to stop her from getting into danger. ie...DVD's fell on her head, she got under the Christmas tree, etc.

We have the ability to put videos on our computer now, so I will try to post one tomorrow.

Paige tried peas this morning and liked them. She had a disturbed look and furrowed brow the entire time, but she kept opening her mouth for it. I think it will be difficult to incorporate more solid food into the day. It takes a lot longer than I would have thought, especially when I have to fit it inbetween her 3 naps and her bottles.

Santa and the Tooth Fairy

Well, Christmas is all over. We had a fantastic time here and in St. Albert. Santa brought Paige a few new toys and some outfits. For Christmas we went to Grandma and Grandpa's house for some lunch and presents and then over to Leslie's house for dinner with everyone.

Then it was off to St. Albert to stay with Auntie Jen and visit the rest of the family and friends. We had an 8:00 flight which got us into St. Albert at around midnight local time. Paige had a few naps along the way so she was able to make it till such a late hour without going completely ballistic. When we got there I was feeling a bit weird, but attributed it to being tired and having a long flight (not to mention a few hours of playing Nintendo DS on the plane). To make a long story short, I was sick all night and then fainted in the morning from dehydration. What a fabulous way to start a vacation! You know I was sick when I had THREE naps the next day! The illness put a bit of a damper in the plans, as I was sick for the turkey dinner at Grandma Val's on the 27th. I quickly got better though for the next day and was able to visit with Lisa and Cadence, and Andrea and Emmerson, and then The Barr's for dinner!

We had a couple of visits with Grandpa Jerry, saw Amanda and Angie, and had a visit with Janice, Lisa, Gordon, Sarah, Katie, Colin, and Lisa's mom. On the 28th Grandma Val babysat for a few hours while Mike and I went to a party at Janice's house.

All in all, the trip was fabulous and we had lots of visiting time with everyone. Paige was quite good natured considering she was cutting TWO TEETH!! She had a few bad sleeps and was sometimes a bit cranky, but we figure she could have been a lot worse. She also got a lot of practice with her crawling. She is not crawling yet, but she performed a precursor to crawling with doing a few bunny hops forward on her elbows and knees, as well as a few backward scoots.

Paige made a few new furry friends. She laughed hysterically at Abby (Beagle) when she jumped or barked. She also was semi-amused by Austin (tiny thing), but he was smaller than her so the jumping didn't make quite the same impact. Riley (golden retriever) was huge, so she didn't seem to quite understand what he was.

In terms of these teeth, sometime between this morning and about 2:00pm, her first tooth broke through. I know because I have been feeling around in there continuously. There is now a tiny little sharp point in the place of her bottom left incisor.

Oh--she also tried Oatmeal cereal today, and she didn't seem to notice anything different from the rice cereal. And, she is sleeping her face off after her week as a party girl.

I practice my moves in the night..

Not that it was at all funny, but Paige woke up at least 10 times last night. Why was she waking up? Well, she was sleeping on her stomach again, and she kept going onto her knees with her face still planted on the mattress!! She has figured out how to get onto all fours for a few seconds. In the evening, she would do it with her head up, but in the night, she was still trying to sleep while she was practicing her new move.

Even when I was getting up for the 800th time, I had to laugh because it was pretty ridiculous. Poor little girl also had a stuffy nose, so as a family, we changed her diaper, fed her, suctioned the nose, and got out ye old humidifier again.

Sleeping like a baby..

Katharine, Christy and I were discussing yesterday about how we would define "sleeping like a baby" as a night of screaming, crying, and no sleep. But, I think that I have discovered where the old expression comes from. It is from you parents who were able to lay their babies down on their stomachs for the night!

Paige has been rolling herself onto her stomach to sleep for the last 3 times she has slept...enough that I would assume it is her new "thing". And she has consequentially "Slept like a baby". She woke up once last night randomly at 1:45 so I gave her her soother. She woke up another time with a loud cry, and I thought, "no for the love of God, I'm too tired", but then she made some talking noises and then silence. I am pretty sure that she turned on to her stomach at that moment. It is now 8:30 am and she is still sound asleep.

Also, she has been wearing massive diapers at night to hold everything in! haha.

Fingers crossed--mike is sick and now I am sick..we DO NOT want Paige to get sick, especially before Christmas....

I'll post some pictures later when I figure out this computer.....

Snowed in....

What a mess out there! Mike shoveled 2 x yesterday and I shovelled once. This morning, he had to shovel again and help some neighbours unstick themselves from the snow, and I'm about to go shovel what the plow has left behind in the driveway!

Since we stayed home all weekend, we got a chance to spend a lot of time playing with Paige. Boy is she different than even last week! She really changed over the weekend! She now is randomly laughing all the time, squealing, and she is sitting up! She can't sit for very long yet before she keels over, but she has figured out how to sit up straight rather than hunched right over. I even have seen her get up the slightest bit on her hands and knees, but then she sort of scoots backwards.

She has also taken an interest in a variety of things that aren't toys, like the phone and the remote. She screams and lunges for them.

She really enjoys the highchair now too. We have to pile a ton of toys on the tray though because she just picks them up and chucks them off the side. We have been feeding her in the chair 2 x a day. She loves the rice cereal now. She opens up her mouth for it and everything! I have been making it with 1 slightly heaping tbsp of cereal and 3 tbsp of warmed formula. Eventually when she is used to that I can thicken it up. I just don't think she is hungry enough for anything more substantial. I also bought oatmeal and barley cereals to try in a few weeks.

OH! the greatest news of all! On Saturday night she slept uninterupted from 10:30 till 9:15. It was crazy!! And last night, she woke up twice, but never ate in the night. I am certain that the problem before was teething pain. Her cheeks were bright red last week when she wasn't sleeping. It seems to have settled down. Next time I see her cheeks like that, accompanied by gnawing on things and excessive drooling, I am certainly giving her tylenol before bed! My stupid problem, of course, is that when she slept through the night I only slept for about 4 hours...don't ask me why! It was really windy and scary sounding outside, which is probably part of it. But I really don't know what my problem is....story of my life.

I would post pictures but my laptop is on the fritz and I am on Mike's computer.

big girl time

On a better note, I was able to feed her a bit of cereal, and it was her first time in the high chair! She looks so small!

horrific sleep..

Last night she woke up at LEAST once an hour until 6:00am. Mike had even given her tyelenol before bed to see if that would help. I fed her at 1:30 even though I knew she wasn't that hungry just so I would know she was fed. That way when she continued to wake up after that, I could rule out hunger! Now it is 8:30am and she hasn't eaten since 1:30, so it is obvious she COULD make it through the night. So WHAT'S THE PROBLEM!!?? I think I am going to ask the doctor..

I was wrong..

....last night was a horrible sleep again. Too tired to write.