Happy Halloween!!!!

I hope everyone is having a ghoulishly good day. We had a great week; Meals got to spend lots of time with her grandparents. On Wednesday we had a surprise dinner guest, my dad ended up being in town for work and came over for dinner and a little visit with Meals. So good to see him, I wish he had more business out this way.

Oh Thursday night Jeff and I took Meals for a walk in the carrier and we went to the park and pushed Meals of the swings. Check out the face!!

On Friday Jeff had his poker night with the boys at our place so Meals and I vacated and went and hung out at my parents with Mom and Daryl. Meals is very fascinated with Jasper and vise versa, it is so cute to watch them.

On Saturday morning Meals was playing in bed with us and she and Jeff started playing Peek-A-Boo with the sheet. So cute!!! On Saturday, Jeff and John worked on the basement and I ran around putting together my Halloween costume. Saturday afternoon Meals was all packed up and went for a sleepover at John and Denise’s. This isn’t the first time she has stayed over there but this is the first time since she has started eating solids. By all reports everything went very well, she was a little out of sorts after first but then seemed to settle in quite nicely. Well I hear Pake and Meals continued playing Peek-A-Boo on Saturday with much excitement and laughter from Denise.

Saturday night Jeff and I went out Halloweening and partying, enjoying the fact that we knew we could sleep in as late as we wanted the next morning!!! For Halloween this year we dressed up as the cast of Gilligan’s Island with a few friends. Jeff was the Professor complete with coconut man-purse and coconut headphones, I was Mrs. Howel with my life-ring. I don’t have pictures at the moment but I have requested some. First we went to a house party then off to the bar, much fun and drinks were had by all. Jeff and I got home around 2:30am, sooo tired.

Sunday was a BEAUTIFUL day here and we enjoyed a leisurely morning, grabbed some greasy breakie then did some groceries and then headed out to Mississauga to see our baby and relax with Jeff’s parents. What a nice relaxing afternoon, Jeff had a nap and Meals, John, Denise and I went for a walk. We put Meals in her Halloween costume and packed her into the wagon and went for a tour of the neighbourhood. Meals flaked out about half way through the walk and kinda looked like a drunk’n bear, very funny. After our walk Meals had a play then another nap and Jeff and I carved a pumpkin. My parents arrived later and we all had a fabulous dinner.

This week Meals started on bananas, sweet potatoes, avocado, green beans and baby crackers. The avocado and green beans were met with some confusion and faces but after we mixed it with some banana or rice cereal they went down no prob. Meals is now fully exploring the living room, it is totally futile trying to keep her on her quilt, her favourite is to go on the hardwood floors. It is abit funny though cause she hasn’t figured out how to got forward just backwards. This week I am off to get a couple baby gates, let the baby proofing begin, ugh!! She has also found her giggle and if you laugh at her she will usually giggle back. We has also found that big loud laughs scare her and she usually starts crying till you give her a cuddle.

Peek-A-Boo

Videeooo Videeeooo

Check it out, I can now post videos thanks for my friend Jen who is my website HERO!!! Here is one from the day Dexter and Meals were playing in her crib.

Breaking News!!!

Another big first for Meals….she had her first grown up poo, ha ha ha!!! Oh god I am a loser but this was rather exciting cause it means she is actually eating. Actually Friday, Saturday and Sunday morning she gobbled it all up. I made pears again but this time added rice cereal and abit of breast milk but kept it pretty thick and she seemed to really like it, she would open her mouth for more and whenever I brought the spoon up she would turn away from whatever she was looking at to eat (big change from Thursday). I think this week I might try bananas or avocados but the trick seems to be adding the rice cereal.

Oh the other exciting news according to Jeff is that Meals enjoyed her first Simpsons episode. I wasn’t there to see this but Jeff tells me she and Jeff sat on the couch together both transfixed by Homers latest antics for a good 15mins (I think she was just waking up still .

This weekend Jeff and John made a lot of progress on the basement and I went shopping and to a cooking demo downtown with some friends on Saturday and Sunday did chores and we had a couple friends from university over for brunch. Jeff has been doing a great job on the basement, the framing is almost done, yipeee. It is so exciting to see the walls taking shape.

Last night we had Sunday dinner at my parents and Meals took a big interest in Jasper (my parents dog). She was giggling and squealing when Jasper came close, it was so cute. Daryl took some pictures and I’ll post them when I get them.

Today we are off to the doctors for her 6 month check up, ick another needle or two. This time I am not going to forget the baby advil.

Sorry no pics today, I’ll post some soon.

6 Months

Ah another month gone by, she’s a half a year, CRAZINESS!!!! What a month, new food, haircuts and loss of ear hair!!!!

Meals has continued to be a happy baby that is quite content playing with her toys on her own or climbing all over Jeff and I. This month we got a jolly jumper for her which was big excitement for her, it taught her about jumping which she now has translated over to her excersaucer, she jumps up and down looking very pleased with herself. Her favourite toys this month have been her chew toys, I think those teeth are on their way. I bought her a squeaky toy that looks more like a dog toy than a baby toy but she seems to love it. That and she loves books, nope I am not thinking my baby is some genius, she loves chewing on them, hmmm, so special. Oh and she thinks the best part of any toy or baby paraphernalia she gets her hands on is the tag, hours of chew time fun.

This month she has started talking alittle more, not really in quantity but more different voices and noises. This month we have seen a lot more facial expressions from the SUPER grin to the lips curled in and the tongue out.

This month she has had her first real cold, and in the last week it has become worse, lots of chesty coughs and running noses. Poor Meals, she seems alittle slower than usually and quieter at times but she isn’t that fussed about it (except when I am trying to wipe her nose and she is doing something)

She has become more mobile recently, she hasn’t started crawling forward but she goes backwards but only a few shuffles. Her new trick is to get up on her hands and knees and rock back and forth then launch herself forward. It is abit disconcerting for a parent and there have been some loud clunks but she doesn’t seem bothered by it. She is abit of a rough and tumble baby, she loves horseplay time with Jeff and will lie on his chest then try to climb off his side to get upside down (one of her favourite games). She has also discovered the hard wood floors and that she can move around on her belly a lot easier on them, she also seems to like licking them, I don’t even know what to say about that. I have found in the last few weeks she actually is going places with a purpose, while I write this she seems to be on a mission to get to her exersaucer and chew the base, I have had to move her back 4 times now, ahhh!!!

Now for the hair update, oh the excitement!!! First two hair cuts done and the ear hair is gone!!! I cut her little wispy mullet a couple weeks ago then yesterday she got her first real haircut. Jeff’s mom has been going to this one place for many years, Jeff’s sister goes there, Jeff went when her was little and now my mom and I have started going, so Tuesday night the moms and I decided to take Meals and get her haircut there too. It has been growing down over her eyes but even so Jeff and I have resisted cutting it because it looks so cute but we have finally caved. So on Meals half birthday the grandmoms, Meals and I headed to out to Georgia’s in Streetsville for Meals first trip to the salon and Mom, Meals and I all got our hair done. So cute I can’t believe how different and how much older she looks, it is abit monkish but still very cute. Now the ear hair, when she was born she had lushes locks not only on her head but also all around the outside of her ear, it was quite dark and about a centimetre long. Jeff was very concerned about it and was pulling on it regularly. Everyone was telling up not to worry because all her hair would fall out but as the hair on her head stayed and continued to grow we were not so sure and we were envisioning some necessary electrolysis in her teenage years but low and behold it disappeared!!! We don’t really know when it happened but all of a sudden it was all gone!!

Food, so far Meals has had rice cereal, squash, potato and most recently pear. I don’t know about all of you but I figured pears would be the biggest hit but I was so wrong, talk about faces!!! Yesterday was the first day of the pears and there was a lot of thumb sucking and looking away, bah!!! Oh well. I think rice cereal seems to be the favourite so far, followed by rice cereal and squash.

Sleeping has been about the same, she sleeps from about 7:30pm to 7am then three naps during the day. I have found that the naps have been getting shorter though but recently with this cold there has been an extra nap in the evening some days.

6 Month Pics

Amelia Helen Reitsma – 6 Months (Boggers and all) 

6 Month Pics

Amelia Helen Reitsma – 6 Months 

6 Month Pics

Playing with Dad, yeah!!! 

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Hee hee hee!!! 

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Okay so this morning I was about to have a shower and meals woke up from her nap so I opened her door but left her in her crib. When I got out of the shower this is what I found….

I am probably bad for not throwing Dexter out right away but they were so cute and having so much fun. Dexter is so funny, I swear her is part dog he just loves attention of any kind. After this picture was taken Amelia steamrolled him and he continued to purrr and didn’t move.