Tag: eliza

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Here’s how we know Eliza is teething:

• she’s drooling like a rabid dog
• she’s gnawing on everything she can get her hands on, including her own hands and ours
• random fussiness and crying, very unusual for her
• when offered a cold or frozen washcloth, she sucks on it like it’s the best thing she’s ever tasted
• excessive saliva = more spit-up than normal
• excessive drool, especially at night = little pimples on her face
• excessive saliva = a weird little cough like an engine sputtering

Overall, our verdict is that this teething thing sucks (pun intended). I understand that it’s necessary, but it’s hard on poor little babies who have no idea why this is happening to them. Can’t wait to see a little tooth pop up, though. Problem is…it could be a month or two of this before we see any results!

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Eliza is outgrowing all her baby seats. As you can see, she’s trying desperately to sit up. So…even though she is strapped into this cushy, soft, vibrating seat , she is trying to get out of it. She has several little “chairs” but they all recline, so she isn’t fond of them anymore. She wants to sit straight up and see the world. No chilling out for little Eliza! Are you kidding? There’s too much to see and do!

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Everyone always comments on Ellie’s eyes…how clear, how attentive they are, how pretty. She’s always had great eyes, even from birth. She wasn’t out in the world 5 seconds before she popped her eyes open and was looking around. Heck, we’ve even got a 3D Ultrasound of her with her eyes open In Utero.

We’ll see about the color, though…both Betsy and I have greenish eyes, while Ellie is still deep blue. She’s still got time for them to change, though.

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We gave Eliza avocado for the first time yesterday. She was skeptical but ate quite a bit, despite the look of confusion on her face. We’ll try again today.

In other news, we’re having some tough sleep issues. The little monkey has learned to roll over onto her belly, which means the swaddle is no longer effective or safe. Yet it is hard for her to settle down without being swaddled. She is also rolling onto her tummy and waking herself up in the middle of the night. She doesn’t know how to roll onto her back yet, so she either screams for one of us to help or sometimes will eventually settle down and stay on her belly to sleep. Not the safest thing in the world, we realize. So…”sleeping through the night” is a distant memory. But hopefully we’ll get there again.

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Eliza just learned how to roll over all by herself, from back to front. It’s the culmination of weeks of serious effort, but now she’s doing it like it’s no big deal. I caught her doing it in the crib this morning while she was supposed to be taking a nap. Now that she can, it’s literally all she wants to do. You put her on her back to play and in three seconds she’s over on her front. Over and over again. Ten or so rounds of this and she gets exhausted and cries because she needs to rest. Poor thing doesn’t know her limits yet. But she knows rolling is a lot of fun!!!

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Eliza took her first bite of food today! Mushy rice cereal, mixed with formula…yum! We weren’t sure if she’d know what to do, but she saw the spoon coming, opened her mouth wide, rolled it around, and swallowed. Turns out she is great at eating (just like mom and dad!). She seemed to really dig it.

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Seems like only yesterday I was typing that she was four WEEKS old. Good grief, where is the time going?

She’s working on rolling over (can’t quite do it yet), started babbling a week or so ago, and is still laughing/giggling up a storm. She has also grown a lot of hair this week, believe it or not. Her new favorite thing is sitting up with help. She likes that angle on the world much better than lying down. She is amazing with her hands now and her head is quite steady. Our little girl is growing up!