Milestones!

We had Kiley's 6 month appointment in April and she was 18 pounds, 5 oz. She has changed SO much and I want to document it before I forget. I started interviewing nannies on April 13th and Kiley wasn't sitting on her own. I remember one of the nannies sat her down and I put my hand up because I knew she'd roll right over and she did. But, by her 6-month appointment, she was sitting - that was April 22nd, one week later. Then, she first crawled (yes, I said CRAWLED) on the 30th. In literally two weeks she went from not sitting to crawling. From there, she went to pulling up within about a week. One day the kids and I were on the couch and she was on the floor and then we saw her cute little face up over the edge of the coffee table, so pleased with herself and grinning ear to ear. Today she pulled up and then let go and stood on her own for just a second. She's not yet really cruising the furniture, but she has walked tentatively behind her little wagon walking toy.

On the food front, she still doesn't like any kind of food that we can tell. She makes the most hilarious faces when you put anything in her mouth, but she'll suck on a piece of paper all day long. She doesn't have any teeth yet but we think she's getting one on top so we'll see if those help on the path to weaning :) Right now I am still much in demand (or at least parts of me are) not quite around the clock. She did actually sleep through much of the night last night. From about 9 p.m. until 5 a.m. This is the longest stretch she has slept at one time. Martin finally got her sleeping in her crib upstairs, for which I was very grateful! I still don't feel caught up on my sleep, but at least I can see the light at the end of that tunnel... She's not much of a napper so far. She takes little cat naps - typically 2 or 3 ten to forty minute naps throughout the day depending on what we've got going on. She'll often sleep in the car if Jake & Sydney aren't back there with her. The rest of the time she mostly falls asleep nursing or in the stroller on a walk. I have to admit I haven't done the job of most first-time Moms to try to get her on a schedule, but with two older kids and their activities (soccer, scouts, football, guitar, piano, swimming, etc. - thankfully not ALL going on in the same seasons but many of them overlapping) - it's hard to keep her on her own separate schedule.

I'll add some pictures or do another entry soon with way fewer words and way more photos to balance this out, but I want to be able to look back and remember what she did when, so this was important for me to put on paper (so to speak).

I hope all of my friends and family had a wonderful Mother's Day and Happy (belated) Birthday to several who share May 12th as their special day - Emily Ortiz, Ryan Wilson, and Mona Yamasaki - hope your day was fabulous!