Frustratingly Close

Natalie’s inching ever so closer to crawling, but has yet to put the final pieces together. She’ll get up on all fours and start to sway back and forth and she’ll even climb up my chest if I’m up holding her and she’s facing me, but she can’t seem to put that together on the floor.

Meanwhile, she’ll still try. After a few minutes of effort she’ll get pretty frustrated that she’s not going anywhere and begin to whine. Mind you, this doesn’t keep her from moving across the room. She’ll roll  and roll and slide and can cover ground pretty quickly. She’ll be next to the far wall in the office and a minute later be next to me at the desk, laying like she had been there the whole time. That’s probably 10-12 feet.

I’m looking forward to her beginning to crawl, but at the same time I’m sure she’ll just be motoring all over the house. Her knees are likely going to show some wear from the hardwood floors. 

On the eating front, she’s enjoying rice cereal and fruit twice a day now. We’re using the Gerber First Stage “meals”. So far Natalie is pretty partial to sweet potatoes with green beans and squash in second. She’ll eat almost any of the choices, but doesn’t like carrots at all and will be happy to tell you that if you try to give them to her. She doesn’t even complain about prunes, though we have found that giving her prunes is akin to setting a bomb off in her intestinal tract. It creates some extra special diapers the next day. 

We weighed her a few days ago and she was 16 pounds on the nose so that puts her right on track for 6 months. I believe a child is supposed to be close to twice their birth weight at 6 months or so I’ve heard. We’re 2 weeks away from that appointment, perhaps she’ll be crawling by then. 

Prunes, I knew I was in Trouble

Last night prunes made their debut on Natalie’s dinner menu. We were eating dinner and Tiffany asked me what I thought she was feeding her. It actually looked like chocolate pudding so that was my answer even though I knew we wouldn’t be giving her chocolate pudding . Tiffany started to laugh, barely able to say prunes out loud.

Immediately my mind wandered to when the last time Natalie pooped. It was overnight so not since the early morning. She rarely goes twice in a day now so I knew I would be in for a treat today. Sure enough I pick her up to put her on my lap this morning after eating breakfast and before my feet have even found a permanent spot on the ottoman, I heard a grunt and then felt a pop, a new record.

Turns out it was also a minor blowout so those jammies are heading straight to the wash. I was fortunate that Natalie was not just in a onesy because I surely would have been victimized if she was. I in fact had not intention of changing her out of her pajamas until after she did her deed. So in that respect I made out pretty good. 

Now that she’s eating solid food I work quite fast during a diaper change. The sooner that odor is down in the diaper genie the better so I don’t mess around. A couple diapers have put me on the brink of gagging, which I have never done before and I’ve been in houses that had dead dogs and cat urine all over the carpet so there you go. 

Natalie’s playing on the floor as I type. We put her on her activity mat but it’s not long until she’s rolled her way halfway across the room. She prefers sleeping on her stomach or side now and pretty much tries to flip right over anytime you put her down on her back. It will be interesting to see how far she gets when she starts crawling.

In other news, we removed the safety net from her bathtub as you can see here. She sits at one end while Tiffany washes her now and enjoys splashing around though she doesn’t enjoy getting water in her face when she does. The other picture was taken exactly at five months this past Saturday. She is growing, that’s for sure. Her current diapers say they are for 16-28 pounds, but I find that hard to believe as our friend’s child is almost 2 and still not 28 pounds. We had been told before that the weights on the diapers were pretty much useless, I would tend to agree.

Now it’s nearly time for a bottle and hopefully a nap, and one can only hope I’ve seen the last of the prunes today.