My Name Is Now Mom

Oma and Opa have been traveling for a while and they just got back home.  The same day they arrived home, Oma told Opa they needed to come down to see TerraDactyl.  Opa managed to convince her they should wait at least a few days before leaving town again.  So they came down to visit Tuesday and Wednesday.  TerraDactyl tried some smashed carrots and was not super impressed.  She didn't throw a fit or anything, but she did make a face.  She was willing to open up for another bite, but then she just pushed it back out of her mouth.  I'm not sure that we're making much progress on the whole introducing food front.  An apple a day keeps the doctor away We got a lot of walks with Oma and Opa.  And while we were on a walk we decided to try out a playground.  I don't think TerraDactyl can quite handle the baby swings yet, they seem a bit too big for her, and she's not awesome about sitting up yet.  So instead, we tried tandem swingi...

On Saturday we hosted DH's hometown homies' annual Halloween Party.  We've been working pretty hard on our costumes, but even though I KNEW they'd take longer this year (with TerraDactyl taking most of my time), I still underestimated just how much more time I'd need to work on them.  I stayed up late on Friday night and still had more work to do on Saturday.  I actually finished up after people had arrived.  Fortunately, they're pretty forgiving.  Mario, Princess Peach, and a squirming Toad We went with a Mario themed family.  DH was Mario, I was Princess Peach, TerraDactyl was Toad, and Riley was a Koopa (those turtle thingies).  And yes, that's totally DH's actual mustache.  He shaved off his beard just for this.  We're quite committed to our costumes.  A happier Toad We had the worst time finding overalls.  So we had to improvise.  I honestly didn't think we'd completely strike out on the overall front.  ...

TerraDactyl is now six months old!  She's 26.5 inches long and 17.1 lbs.  Both of which are about the 70th percentile.  The doctor says she's right on track with developmental milestones.  So that's good.  Our main concern is that she's got some patches of classic eczema that we're trying to keep under control.  It's harder to get good pictures now that she flips to her belly so readily... Halloween is coming up, so DH and I have been working on our Halloween costumes.  We went to Goodwill the other day and while I was in the dressing room trying on options, DH was supposed to be out looking for his own costume options.  I finished up and went looking for DH and found him holding three board games.  He'd seen the kid that was stocking the shelves with these games in the cart and he'd just followed the kid around until he finally unloaded the board games and DH snatched them up immediately.  I'm not sure why he didn't ask the kid i...

TerraDactyl continues to work on her strength exercises.  She's progressed to holding her planks for quite some time.  And she's even lifting her butt up into the air.  Sometimes I think it almost looks like she wants to do a forwards roll.  Just tuck that head under and you can roll right over it! TerraDactyl is also getting better at playing with her toys.  She can use all the toys on her jumper.  She's really good at pushing the buttons (and making the songs play), and she even rotated herself to face different toys all on her own.  That was the first time that's happened.  Oh yeah!  Who's got skills? TerraDactyl definitely is enjoying tummy time these days.  She's reaching for things and trying to move towards them (she only succeeds if she's only required to rotate, she's still scooting backwards instead of forwards).  It makes me wish we had some bigger rooms in our house so she could have more space to scoot aro...

This weekend DH, TerraDactyl, Riley, and I took a long walk.  During the course of our walk, the ball of my foot starting hurting - A LOT.  A lot , a lot.  When we got home, I took a look at my foot and saw the ball of my foot was swollen.  It's been bothering me for a while (many months), but I just sort of assumed that I'd jammed it at some point and it was just taking a while to heal.  This weekend it hurt too much to ignore and pawn off on a previous (and un-remembered) injury.  In fact, it looks like a bunion.  TerraDactyl holding her plank To be honest, I was a bit more than annoyed to discover I'd developed a bunion.  I mean, I NEVER wear heels, and I NEVER wear pointy toed shoes.  I literally only wear sandals and tennis shoes.  How the heck did I develop a bunion?  And most annoying is that according to my internet research, I can't get rid of it without surgery.  Hopefully they mean I can't get rid of the swell...

TerraDactyl just learned to do knee push ups and now she's working on real push ups!  It's crazy how fast she progressed through that.  She's still scooting backwards, but now that she's in a full push up position, I think she scoots backwards a wee bit faster.  Pretty good form for her first day! We're still working on our sleeping.  Since TerraDactyl seems to sleep so well when she's next to me in bed, I'm experimenting with recreating that environment in her bassinet.  I've got a heavier (weight and warmth) blanket to put on her.  I think she like snuggling with body heat, so I actually end up putting two blankets on her.  I think it helps.  But maybe it's just wishful thinking.  She's much more of a morning person than me We're also trying to keep her bed time routine stable.  But it's hard.  I'm terrible at keeping track of time, I've always determined when I'd go to bed based on when I was tired, or wheneve...

TerraDactyl has been adding to her bag of tricks pretty quickly.  She can now eat her toes.  She worked up to this trick.  TerraDactyl started out reaching for her toes with her hands, then grabbing them, then pulling them toward her mouth, but just yesterday was the first successful foot-in-mouth that I've observed.  TerraDactyl's first documented foot-in-mouth TerraDactyl is also continuing to work on her crawling motions.  They're getting better, but still no forward progress.  In fact, when she practices, she actually ends up moving backwards.  They're just small little scoots, but if she spends 15 minutes on her belly, she'll end up scooting backwards a foot or so.  Get that knee up there!  Higher! Yesterday while I was watching TerraDactyl during her tummy time (and taking photos), she was going through a pattern.  Push into a knee push up position, lower herself down to a Superman position, push up into a knee push u...