Time Flies

OH MY GOLLY GOSH!!!
I can't believe how fast time has gone by... Our baby girl is now 7.5 months old! WHAT THE HELL??!?? We have been super busy chasing Ellie around. We decided to do things our own way and go by what we feel she is "telling" us. We started feeding her rice cereal and baby oatmeal at about 3 months and fruits and veggies at around 4. Ellie is very advanced and her Dr. wasn't concerned in the least about our decisions! He confirmed that if/when she starts trying to pull food off of my plate or taking the spoon out of our hand when we're feeding her...she's ready for finger foods! We then discovered that baby food is really just a waste of money so we just made our own and shortly after starting that we increased her variety of foods and she now eats EVERYTHING except citrus fruits, peanut butter, and raw honey. With her 2 bottom teeth present and accounted for and the next two coming in as we speak (one on each side of her existing 2), her favorite foods include scrambie eggs, chocolate chip waffles, toast with her Nana's homemade strawberry jam and peaches! She also thoroughly enjoys cottage cheese, chicken noodle and chicken with rice soup, ravioli, spaghetti, green beans, smashed potatoes, carrots, pears, and yogurt! Definitely a healthy eater!
She was scooting herself around the living room floor at about 6 weeks, started bear crawling [or what we call "Mowgli" (from the Jungle Book)] at 3.5 months, then officially started crawling at 6 months. Immediately following she decided that crawling was a bore and started pulling herself up was more adventurous! She taught herself to walk behind a push walker all by herself as soon as she started crawling and walks along whatever it is that she's pulled herself up on as well.
She is truly an amazing baby! I've never seen a happier child! Sometimes I worry that i just think that because she is mine and I'm biased... but all the comments I get in public confirm what I already know! She IS the happiest baby ever! She is very low-maintenance and easy to care for! She goes to sleep at night with no problems [as long as she has her "me me" (Binky) and her baby] and stays asleep for 11-12 hours every night (which she's been doing since she was 2 weeks old)!!!
At her last appt., three days ago, she was 17.14 pounds and 27 1/4 inches tall. This puts her between the 25th and 50th percentile for weight and 50th and 75th percentile for height!
As for Cory and I. Cory took 3 weeks off when Ellie was born (I can't remember if I said that before) and I was diagnosed with Anxiety and medicated. Since then things have straightened out, thank God! Cory has gone back to working nights at the Penitentiary and I continued watching Kristen once CC started Fall Quarter in September. That pretty much brings us up to speed I think! One of my New Year's Resolutions is to make sure I keep up with our blog! Not only so you all can stay informed, but so that I can print all my entries off and Ellie will have them to look at when she's older! So, although it's a little late (it's January 5th) ......

HAPPY NEW YEAR! MAY 2009 BE FULL OF WONDERFUL MEMORIES!

stayed tuned...

6 month checkup: Thursday, January 22, 2009.