I just thought Alyssa looked cute as a cowgirl today. I don’t think it was worth the 5 minutes of pictures to get her to stop watching TV, stand up straight, look at the camera, and smile. None the less, here it is.
5 months old
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First Tooth
After a few weeks of this, Megan’s first tooth finally popped through. Besides the constant hands in the mouth and the drooling she didn’t complain much. Alyssa got her bottom 2 before 5 months, so I have been watching to see if Megan’s were coming. I tried to take a picture of her tooth, but all you could see was 3 fingers shooved in her mouth. I will wait till it comes in a little more. While it is exciting, it is a little sad. She seems to be growing too fast.
She has done a little better with her so-called “reflux”. I took her off the acid medicine 2 weeks ago and she is only on Reglan. It is supposed to relax her involuntary muscles to make eating more comfortable. I saw a huge improvement the first 2 weeks, but she is slowly showing signs of discomfort again. We have a GI appointment in April, so I may just wait till then.
Overall, she is a happy baby. We can make her smile so easily, especially Alyssa. She giggles some, but not too often. She has rolled both directions, however chooses not to most of the time. She plays peekaboo with me when I hold her in my arms. She will bury her face then look up at me and smile. Sometimes I smile and laugh so much at what she is doing, that my face literally hurts. We are having fun!
Happy 30
Ethan turned 30 today. We celebrated this past weekend with family and friends, but tonight was just us. He had two candles on his cake – one for him and one for Alyssa.” It was a nice evening. At least until the 3 year old had a tantrum because her PJ bottoms were crooked, and the 4 month old began screaming because she had been awake for a whole 3 hours. Welcome to 30, honey. I love you.
Interaction
Playtime
I have a new video of the girls. Most of the time Alyssa does her own thing and just plays “around” Megan. But Megan is captivated by her big sister. Most mornings they share breakfast together. Alyssa in her chair at the table and Megan in her bouncy seat watching her sister. It is good for me, keeps them both entertained. I think they will have alot of fun together when Megan is old enough to play. For now, this is what playtime looks like. See video
Smiles, hands and drool
What is more fun than the constant drip of drool? Megan has found that she can blow bubbles recently, and that is her favorite thing to show you when she is happy. Her hands have been in her mouth most of her waking hours for the last week or so, but they are not blocking the drool. Alyssa’s first tooth came in at 4 months, so maybe Megan will be like her sister. Let’s hope all this drool is for a reason.
We will go for Megan’s 4 month appointment next week. And just in time, our doctor dropped our insurance. So I guess we will be seeing a new doctor, but she is in the same practice. I am interested to see if she has a different take on Megan’s “reflux”.
My cutie
As most of you know and have seen, Ethan has takes great pictures when he wants. I have many good photos of Alyssa in her last few years that I cherish. I have been nagging him to take some of Megan. It took him 5 minutes and now we have captured Megan at 3 months. She is doing a good job holding up her head, and pops her legs straight when I pull her up. She has the cutest smile that she shows off quite often when we play. We have struggled with acid-reflux in the last 2 months, but I think doping her up on Prevacid each morning is helping. I am still enjoying every moment of time with her and cannot wait to watch her grow up.
Christmas Time
What day of the week is it? I have been off since Christmas Eve. I think Ethan finally goes back to work tomorrow, and we should be back into our normal routine. Not to say that we have not enjoyed having Daddy around. But our world gets confusing when we have too many Saturdays in a row.
We enjoyed Christmas this year, and I finally put some of the photos up. The Whaleys celebrated around actual Christmas time and the Ellers celebrated Kwanza this year. Alyssa loved playing with both sets of cousins for the last few weeks, and I think she is going to find her mother very boring this week.
To move or not to move
Sometimes my clients like to wait until the last possible moment for me to help them. A client emailed me today as I am walking out the door to Hobby Lobby. (Sometimes, I just need a break and relieve some stress at Hobbly Lobby.) Basically the client needs to approve a project and get it to printer by end of day. Bear in mind, the project is only half way done, because I was waiting on him. Needless to say, Hobby Lobby had to wait, Alyssa had to be entertained by computer games, and poor Megan was just ignored on the floor. A little bit later, Alyssa in her room while I am waiting on a response from the client, I see Megan asleep on the floor. “Oh, how cute,” I think. Then I begin to wonder. She has 1.5 hours before time to eat again, can she sleep that long on the floor? She needs her nap, should I move her to her bed?
Well, now half an hour later and she is crying in her bed. Clearly, I made the wrong choice.