Where is Henry?

My Sister-in-law Meredith posted a couple of videos on her blog of my super cute Nephew Henry. I showed the videos to Shelby. We watched each video twice. Afterwards, I put her on the other side of the room to play with her toys. Then I stepped into the kitchen to make her a bottle. This is what I came back to.

I guess she was looking for Henry!

Shelby at 6 months old

It's hard to believe that 1/2 of a year has passed by already. Shelby has grown and changed so much. Here is a little glimpse of Shelby at 6 months old.

* She weights 17 lbs 13.5 ounces (75th percentile)

* She is 26 3/4 inches long (90th percentile)

* She is a super sweet little girl with a very cheery disposition

* She is desperate to crawl and has found ways to get where she is going. She will either roll herself or pull herself. Baby proofing is definitely an on-going process right now.

* She can find the tiniest little thing and put it in her mouth. I'm going to have to buy a Roomba to keep up with the vacuuming! (of course, I'm not really- but it would be awesome)

* She likes sweet potatoes, green beans, green peas, carrots, squash, oatmeal, rice cereal, puffs, prunes, macaroni and cheese puree, mashed potatoes, and a variety of stage 2 combination meals.

* She has been given the green light to start on trying meats. We will also be reintroducing the fruits (more on that later).

* She is a self soother.

* She babbles non stop for many hours at the time. Her main sounds are "buhhh" and "byebyebye" and "ah-boo" and just a whole lot of what the books call "squeals with delight".

* She still enjoys her Daddy above everyone else

* Her favorite TV shows are Little Einsteins and Jungle Junction.

* She is a very confident sitter.

* She loves to stroll around in her stroller.

* She is only 2 little inches away from being over the length limit for her infant car seat. I would send out a big "I told you so" to all who doubted me and acted like I was crazy when I suggested that she was about to need new car seats....but I'm not that kind of girl.

* She has a true love for music.

* She has two bottom teeth. I think another tooth will be here soon.

* She hates for her face to be wiped but doesn't mind if you dab it.

* She is beginning to pull up on things, and can stand for long periods of time against things like the coffee table, or her leap frog table.

* She thinks Brady is super cool.

* Just this week she has discovered her ears, eyes and hair.

* She loves a bath and is sad when it's over.

* She is definitely a "people person".

* She has outgrown more clothes than most kids even own.

* She continues to be the most amazing thing that has ever happened in our lives!

Thursday 13: Thirteen faces of Sandy and Kate

As a teacher at a Montessori school, I trust the children in my class with my camera. The reason why is that they have been shown the proper way to use it and they not only take excellent care of it, but they take the best pictures. Today, the little girl with using the camera wanted to take pictures of me and Kate. So......... we made a list of different emotions/actions that she could photograph. Here are the zany and fun adventures of Sandy and Kate that you have been missing!!

The List

starving to death waiting for lunch

Hysteria

"cousin it"

fake laughing

shocked (me) and angry (Kate)

waiting for lunch

scared

fighting

nervous

annoyed

gossip girls

best of friends

3 recipes and 2 cute pictures

Here are three new recipes that I made this weekend.

Greek Pasta Salad

Feta Chicken Salad

and...

Too Much Chocolate Cake

Today, we took Shelby to the park and for ice cream. She was a fan of both!

P.S. Can you believe this is a 12 month outfit???

the bad bad bad bad bad diaper rash

For some reason, we thought we would try and save a few bucks and try a different, cheaper, store brand diaper for Shelby. This turned out to be a HORRIBLE mistake. Something in the diaper did not agree with her skin resulting in the most awful diaper rash. We have spent over a week trying to get this cleared up. It's almost gone and a million times better than it was. My friend Erica even came over with some lotions and potions and Maggie gave some solutions as well. One solution was to let Shelby go without a diaper to let things air out. Here was my idea for keeping the floors dry during this time. Doesn't it look like she's saying... "haha I'm not wearing any pants". She thought this set up was pretty funny. She enjoyed playing in it and watching TV. I was working in my guest room which we are about to convert into a play room (sorry guest). Huggies Little Movers will be the only diaper gracing her tushie from here on out! Hopefully in a few more treatments this rash will be history!

A Valentine Pictorial

Here is a pictorial of Shelby opening two Valentine's cards that she received Saturday. I blurred out our address for obvious reasons! Enjoy!

I crushed up a white conversation heart and let her try a little. She loved it!

Saturday night ramblings

It's been a LONG week in this house. Sunday we had a much scaled back version of our super bowl party. I will have to blog about that later. This week I had parent/teacher conferences. Lots of reports were typed and lots of meetings were held. Mr. D. was busy getting ready to go on a business trip. Here are a few quick tidbits on Shelby from this week. More blogging soon!!

Last weekend, Mr. D added the legs on to make Shelby's Leap Frog table.

She loves to stand. She can stand for a long time working at the table. Sometimes she falls, so we have to stay in the floor behind her. Sometimes she thinks it is funny to fall and land in our laps. On a side note, please excuse my stained carpet. It won't be long until the steam cleaner will get that up.

Shelby has moved up to "stage 2" foods, or foods for sitters. I have been making some of her food, but we used baby food as well. I made her some steamed zucchini that she LOVED just last week. The baby food brand that we are using the Earth's Best organic brand. At this point, we haven't given her any containing meat. Shelby has an aversion to fruits. I am not calling it an allergy at this point because we haven't had any testing. This is something we will discuss with her Dr. at the next appointment which is any day now a.k.a. as soon as we make the appointment. Today was the first day that I shopped for the Stage two foods. It seemed like most everything I saw had fruits in it. So far she has had a reaction to bananas, peaches, apples and pears. She did not have a reaction to prunes. Anyway, avoiding the fruits was very hard. I even had to get some other brands of food to have a variety of things to try. My store didn't carry all of the Earth's Best varieties. Looks like I need to go to Whole Foods. I was sad that she can't have the yogurt blends because they are all blended with fruit. I meant to see if there was any plain baby yogurt in the cold section, but I forgot. I did find one other kind of puffs without fruit so now she can have sweet potato puffs and the corn/cheddar puffs. I hope we can get this fruit thing figured out. Maybe she just needs to build up a tolerance...who knows. I will keep you posted as to what the Dr. tells us.

all puffed up

And so it begins.........................

Do you see what I see...........

Tooth number two... the one on the left

We also tried Puffs today. Shelby thought the sweet potato puffs were AWESOME!

Shelby is going to crawl just any day now.