Happy Half a Year August 13, 2007

Wow. What a weekend. There were so many firsts I can’t believe we packed it all in just a couple of days! The first first….Fiona turned 6 months old on Friday. It is amazing that she is a whole half of a year old. We don’t have our Dr.’s appt. for another week so I can’t report stats just yet…but let’s just say she isn’t slacking in the growing the department so i have a feeling she will still be in that “90%” range.

Friday we tried solid foods for the first time. Organic Italian Sweet Potatoes. She REALLY enjoyed the spoon….what was on the end of the spoon? not so interested. She would screw up her face and stare at us like we were being cruel to her and then spit out the offending taste. But the spoon…the spoon is cool. Saturday I think she may have actually ate a little bit….and then on Sunday we tried something new. I know, I know, I’m supposed to wait 3 days….anyway…Sunday we tried Avocado and we LOVED it. Well we like it much better. This time instead of grabbing the spoon before it got near her mouth she opened wide and let me put the food in there. No icky face. And then asked for more. Next on the line up is peas and then I think we’ll venture to the banana. I figure it will be sometime before we’re really up and running in the food department..this is all about experimentation. I got to experiment with making my own baby food…which is honestly ridiculously easy…I’m not going to claim that I will always do it, but for now I already have a freezer full of food for her and it only took me a handful of minutes to do it!

Next on our firsts list: Fiona spent most of the day on saturday alone with daddy! AND IT WENT WELL! I’m so happy and relieved! Fiona is totally a momma’s girl…and if she can’t have momma then she prefers another woman…not real keen on the man scene yet….we’ll see how she feels about that in another 13 years…and though she sees daddy everyday she hasn’t spent much alone time with him…and when she has it’s involved a lot of screaming and crying…and fiona hasn’t been that happy either =) So we decided that since i was going to a baby shower on saturday it would be the perfect time to leave them alone together…and it went really well. Not that I didn’t think they could do it…i mean i know they could…but i was just praying that it would go well because i really want them to bond…people always ask me if it feels good that she always wants me….and honestly it doesn’t. it feels so much better when i see her and her dad together playing happily. now of course greg is leaving for europe for two weeks so there will be some adjusting when he gets back for sure….but we’re on the right path.

3rd First: Greg brought home a jogging stroller on Friday…yes, it is a perk to work at REI….=) He brought me a very nice B.O.B. running stroller…with suspension and everything…i love it! We put the super-cool bunting that Lori bought us for our baby shower in there and Fi is snug as a bug in a rug! I was able to go running with her twice this weekend and it felt so good. It’s just a great feeling to know now that I can go running whenever I want…i don’t need to wait till greg is home and it’s a good time for him….i just need to wait for a good time for fi and i and off we can go. It’s one more step to getting back to the old me…well the quasi-mom-me.

(i’ll post pictures later tonight so check back!)