first food?

I decided a while ago that I would not be rushing Piper beginning to eat "solid" foods. She reaches for food but she reaches for EVERYTHING so I am still in no hurry to feed her food. She is doing very well with exclusive breast milk.

Anywho-
Last week, Piper's Great Grandmother Edie gave Pi her first Valentines Day card. We all sat around while Ty held Piper as she inspected her Valentines Day card. Edie (who is German) spelled Pipers name "Peiper", which is SO CUTE and German. Piper liked it so much she decided this would be her first food...



I was so nervous that she ate this toxic red paper. However, she promptly pooped it out, fully intact the next day. I will not show you a picture of that.

I figured it was a one time thing, at least til she gets older.

We spend a lot of time outside gardening. Piper plays on her blanket while I water plants.


I learned the hard way that she knows how to pull the blanket towards her so she can get to the dirt and leaves. This is how I found her:






Since this she has helped herself to some more dirt and plants as well as the corner of a magazine. Perhaps it IS soon time to offer her big girl food...

first buggy ride.

Yesterday, Valentines Day, Piper and I went on a trip to Target to get a really awesome froggy humidifier which, by the way, works great and now I want one for my room too!

Anyway- as usual, Piper rode in her Ergo sling but was getting really squirmy and cranky. She wanted OUT! So I put her in the buggy for the first time. I didnt have our cool insert thing to protect her from the atrocities of a buggy(scroll down to "buggy" for a proper definition). I used what I had... a flannel jacket and the Ergo.

Immediately after placing her in the buggy she was so happy and completely forgot I existed. And so it begins, I could not even get her attention. I had to help hold her up sometimes because she is a bit small still for such a thing! She was so proud of herself being so grown up! I think she may have even head nodded to some of the other shoppers.





And the portrait of a teething baby...

Piper pees on v-day.

I will admit it. I have been putting this off. I got behind thanks to a long list of things. Most notably, Pipers seemingly sudden cesation of napping which caused me to go a little bit crazy and then spend about a month remedying the problem. We are mostly better now except for teething. But hopefully she will be sporting a brand new pair of pearly whites soon. I told myself I would update all the past blogs (thankgiving, xmas and so on) but everyday that goes by more and more things pile up. So why not start today... on Pipers first valentines day. I will get around to the rest if I can. If not, thats ok too.

So happy v-day from Piper. We had to change out of her "My first v-day outfit because she peed all over it."

I apologize the photos are blurry but she no longer sits still.





Here you can see her sporting her gorgeous amber/amethyst teething necklace that we got from Etsy.







By the way, Piper is 3 days shy of being 6 months old and moments away from crawling and saying her first word (I swear she has said "baby" 3 times already....) WOW!

first swing.

Today Daddy chopped all his hair. He walked into the salon a cranky-puss and came out shiny and new. After, we walked down to the park in Dunedin and Piper had her first experience in a swing. She was rather apathetic about it but I think this is because she was sleep deprived and freezing cold. It was SO cold and windy!!!

Piper peed in the potty!!!

Today Piper pee peed in her potty! We have been loosely doing Elimination Communication for a couple months now.
Right after she was born we started making the universal pee sound "pssss" every time we could tell that she peed or pood. I still have no idea if this association has done anything but we keep at it.
Also I put was putting her on her potty now and then when I thought of it.
Several days ago, while filling up her tub she peed all down my leg. Shortly after that we noticed she was peeing in the water. A couple days ago my mom had was holding her while I was filling up the tub and she aimed right for me and let it flow. I also realized that when I get her naked and let her wait while the tub fills, she always pees. So finally... the light went off. Took me long enough.
Today as I was filling up the tub I sat her potty next to the tub and sat her on it. Now, Piper hates the potty. She cries everytime I put her on it. HATES IT. But this time, I put her on it and made the psss noise and there it was. PEE! She even bent in half to examine what the heck was going on!

I dont think I have ever been so excited! Weird I know! So we will keep at this tub time pee time!

Here is shots of Piper today on our special day!!!!

Piper meets a really old tree.

On Saturday January 29 our little fam went to walk around Safety Harbor for a change of scenery.
While we were there we met Pinellas County's oldest tree! It is like 200 years old or something... maybe more!

She really liked her and knows exactly what to do with trees.

First shoulder ride.

Today Piper got to test drive on of her soon to be most common ways to travel: on Daddy-o's shoulders. I think its safe to say she enjoyed it.