Mini Mani/Pedi

Cecelia's nails seem to need trimming quite often and one day I'm sure she'll appreciate her long lovely nails, but right now she just seems to attack herself (and us!) with them.  So keeping them in check is a bit of a chore.  When she was first born, a nail file was the most effective tool, but now her nails are ready for the clippers, but since she's strong and rather unpredictable in her erratic movement, I try to clip her nails when she's sleeping.  Getting her to that point and then remembering to do so is another story all together.  And when her nails are trimmed, they still seem sharp.  Any tips from the trade?

Giggly Girl

Our new favorite thing to do - giggle. Here is Cecelia at 19 weeks and then 20 weeks and her developing laugh. I'm sure there will be lots of this happening in our household in the future. Enjoy!

Our Eco-Holiday Greeting Card

We've been trying to do more of our holiday greetings via online sources such as Scrapblog or Hallmark's Smilebox and here's what we came up with for the Winter Holiday season.  Besides using less paper, both to print our greetings, and utilize an envelope, we also save on postage.  This greeting was...free and sent through email, facebook and this very blog.  So, enjoy your holiday greetings from our family to yours!

Age: 22 Weeks

This week - nothing is immune to getting chewed on...including Fred.  Poor Fred.  Mommy put him slightly behind me in order to get a picture where I wasn't trying to eat the monkey.

So, as you can see from above I'm developing a taste for chewing.  Two reasons - one a tooth is coming...well, it has been coming for quite some time, so who knows when it will actually cut through.  And teeth come two at a time, and mom doesn't see any others, so this could be quite the process.  Also, I am now 5 months old!  And I'm still exclusively breastfed.  Mom is waiting until I'm 6 months to test my taste buds with food...but I may be showing her I'm ready by putting everything in my mouth.

Tissue Paper - Coming Soon Under a Tree Near You

Since we're headed to the doctor's today for Cece's 5 month shots (she's 5 months TODAY!!) I thought I would post some video of one of our trips to CHOP and her fascination with tissue paper in general. So, enjoy.

The End of an Era

The spit up era...one that I will not miss one bit! Cecelia's been a spitter since very early on. In the hospital she had exactly no regurgitation. I know this because we had to mark it on a sheet. When she got home, she gradually decided that giving a little (or a lot) of each meal back to us would be her MO. We tried lots of things, keeping her upright, different feeding amounts...all to no avail. I thought it was something I was doing/eating (so egocentric). She was not so much fussing and spitting up as she was happily and go-luckily spitting up. I remember in the first three weeks or so, telling my sister about the spit up...she reported to my mom who promptly called me and told me not to worry (I wasn't THAT worried, but I digress). My mom told me I would eat and spit up everything and then eat again and it would help increase milk supply. The next day my mom was over and witnessed the projectile spit up and said, "Oh...you should talk to the pediatrician about that." Then I got upset with her and told her that she couldn't tell me not to worry and then tell me to worry - that simply was not allowed and I was not going to worry. It all turned out ok, obviously, we're all here and she gained her weight...somehow. Cece would projectile on the carpets, couches, shoulders...not picky. Jeff was holding her once with a burp cloth in one spot...she turned her head to get it all on his shoulder and down his back instead. Girl makes a statement when she does things like that. It got to a point where I was holding her over the sink after each feeding to avoid the mess. So we've acquired lots of bibs and burp cloths and they got some excellent use. Sometime last week, I realized that I was having to change her bib less often and most of the time I was changing it because of teething drooly mess instead of curdled milk. I'm also washing far fewer, if any, burp cloths. It's funny how things can change so quickly with very little fanfare. It's not as if she turned to me and said, I'm not going to spit up anymore. Now, this is not to say that Cecelia NEVER spits up, because that's just a statement I'm not ready to make yet. She still does on occasion - that occasion seems to happen most often right after I tell someone who's holding her that she really doesn't spit up anymore...and then she does. Murphy's law should really be re-named Ellen's law. That's just my opinion...maybe it'll catch on.

Video Catch Up

This is a video from when Cecelia was 16 weeks old playing on her play mat. I uploaded a bunch to You Tube yesterday so I'll get them on here one day at a time (or so). I'll try to get at least one activity on video a week from now forward.