Piper laughs hysterically!

Piper laughs often but today she really went crazy with laughter! Of course, her doggie was at the heart of it.

daddy luv.

Piper and Daddy spend mornings together without me. I sleep. Its the only way I can function! And they love their time together.
Here is some Daddy love from this week...

her favorite past time...


mornings...

babbler

Yesterday Piper spoke up. And she has only quieted down to go to sleep.

She is saying "ba ba ba ba ba ba ba" "da da da da da dada" "ma ma ma ma ma ma ma" and tyler swears she said "doggy" this morning.

She has said this stuff before here and there but never this loud, clear and constant! Here she is this morning...

look at the baby, not at the scale.

I will be bringing this up to my pedi if she is still unhappy with Pipers weight.

Look at the baby, not at the scale

first tooth, first food, first beach.

Big day today!!!

First Piper woke up with her front bottom right tooth finally though the gum (just a wee bit!). She seemed happy about this and wanted to celebrate by sleeping.

Have I mentioned how much my daughter loves/needs to sleep. I too would rather she want to play and go do "stuff" all day but no, she needs her sleep. You don't want to see her if she doesn't get it... but perhaps another blog about this sometime...

Anyway- hooray the tooth is here! Its so cute and little and white! I cant believe she already has a tooth!

After a couple naps Ty and I decided to let her have a go at eating (playing with) avocado. I am passionate about waiting to give babies food. Piper has been exclusively breastfeed since 5 mins after being born. I wanted to waited as long as possible so why did we decide to do it now???:

She is sitting up.
She got a tooth.
She is swallowing and digesting. (remember the posts about her unfortunately eating paper and dirt?)
She is reaching, grabbing and putting everything in her mouth.
She is hungry! Nursing OFTEN.
She is doing chewing movements.
She no longer has the reflex of spitting stuff out (whatever that is called)
By 6 months her gut is "closed".

However, I am not counting on her actually eating enough for any nutrition. This is just fun, practice, learning new sensations. And if she swallows some, ok. No rush. Breastmilk should be the primary source of nutrition until the age of 1.

I decided that organic avocado should be her first food. Why?

Rice cereal came along at the same time and same reasons as formula.
It is starch and added iron. Not much iron, if any will be absorbed. Therefore, no nutritional value.
It is a processed food... ie- not a WHOLE NATURAL FOOD which is what real FOOD is.
Rice cereal is a high glycemic food. Think sugar high. Think diabetes. Think BAD HABITS.

Avocado is whole and natural from the Earth.
It is easily digested.
It is packed with nutrition and GOOD FATS.
It is not sweet and sugary.
Its green. (this is just my opinion, not research. pi has seemed to like the color green. and no harm in kids liking green foods!)

So if this info can remind me for the next kid- cool. If it can help other parents... even better!

Here are the videos. Sorry they arent cut up in clips but... I HATE video editing but I know how much better they would be with some slow, serious flamenco music. (is flamenco ever slow?)









and the snap shots...


always analyzing...


squish!


feels funny..


weeeeee



Also, we went to the beach to try to get cute shots of Piper in heritsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini. We had been to the beach many times but it was only to walk (its been wintertime) and she was snuggled in her Ergo. This time she wasn't thrilled with the beach. The people, sun, wind, sand and waves seemed to be a bit much for our red head. She wanted to go home and sleep. Those pics are still on my Canon. I know... turns out being a mom is a really busy job.

btw:

tall, teeth, twin.

Yesterday we had Pi's 6 month check up. She is in the 103% for height at 28 inches. She is off the charts tall!
Unfortunately she is almost off the charts skinny at 15# 2 oz.
Dont worry I am not starving her. She nurses like crazy. Especially now that she is cutting her first tooth- I cant even seem to keep up! We have switched back to block feeding to ensure she gets plenty of fatty hind-milk. I was skinny too as a baby and so was her uncle. She is thriving and I am not too worried about it. My pediatrician however is using this to push me to feed her as if her playing with food is going to give her more calories. Anywho-

Pipers bottom right tooth is ALMOST through the gum! Last night she didnt sleep much. I hope tomorrow is better. Soon we will have a toothy grin. Looks like the top tooth might be next... here is my angry teething baby this morning taking out her frustrations on Sophie the giraffe.



Today Piper and I spent the afternoon with our fellow Bradley Method mama Stephanie and her son Dallas. Stephanie and I were in Bradley class together and we both ended up having at home water births on the same day! 16 mins apart!
Steph is a nanny and so Piper helped herself to lots of toys and lots of flirting...

pre-crawling!

The only commitment I made today was to do a beach, bikini baby photo shoot. I have been trying to do it for days! My dad (and photography buddy) came over to help me. We took some pics of Piper May in the dress that daddy got her for xmas. Here are some iphone shots of her in her dress. The other shots are still on my Rebel.

her favorite being in the entire world...








After this we got all our beach stuff and camera stuff and baby stuff and got in the car and wouldnt ya know... SEAFOG rolled in. We decided to check out the beach anyway. It was dark, cold, and smokey. The fog was litterally rolling down the street! ACK! People were leaving the beach in droves.
So we left. I was too tired to handle entertaining Piper by myself to I went back to my parents house. My mom layed down a blanket on the floor and told Piper it is about time to start learning to crawl. Apparently Pi took her very seriously because she immediately got up on her hands and toes in a plank! This was a first ever!



She is so strong! I then showed her how to crawl and how to scoot on her butt. Yes I scooted. I hope she doesn't scoot because I will be laughing all the time and will feel bad.

So then she really worked hard at it:


She was so tired she kept laying her head down. I figured she was done but as I was getting ready to go she pushed up on both of her knees! WOW! I tried to get it on camera but didnt... after this she was definitely pooped and could barely stay awake til 6. Actually she was asleep by 550...

Oh and I am pretty sure she said "Jackie" this morning.