Quick update

I never find enough time to update the blog! As it is it's already past my bedtime. :)

Here are a few pictures from the past two weeks. Updates on Camila - loves sweet potatoes, grossed out by cereal. (See the picture above). She likes shaking her head back and forth - too cute! Just broke her first tooth, continues to sleep well, is getting over yet another cold from daycare, this one came with a bad cough that woke her up a few times this weekend. (Took her to the Pediatrician today - she's fine.) She likes to babble, her newest sound actually sounds like "blah, blah, blah" or "habla" which of course is cute considering that's "speak" in Spanish. :) She's pretty fussy with formula, and doesn't always take a full bottle.... At least it's just one bottle a day (I think I mentioned earlier that I have to supplement? Pumping at work just isn't the same as nursing exclusively, and it's affected my production.)

Oh, and in addition to giving us hugs, she seems to be giving us kisses (which is really just smearing us with her wet mouth.) It's so much fun, we just love spending time with her and can't imagine what our life was like without her. We feel so blessed to have her in our family. :)

6 month update

Sadly, I just can't find the time to update the blog more frequently! Below are pictures from the past few weeks. Camila smiling at herself in the mirror, her wacky hair - complete with baldspot and highlights, twisting back to see where that music was coming from (she seems to like Brandenburg Co. #3 - one of my favorite pieces!), enjoying her new favorite toys - tupperware!, our favorite activity on weekend mornings - laying with Camila in bed after she eats. Too bad it's usually 6:30am... Then there are pictures of her eating rice cereal for the first time. She did ok the first night, the second night was a disaster so we took a few days off. We started up again this weekend and she's doing much better. She'll open her mouth and stick her tongue out as if asking for more! Hmmm...what else can I update? She's rolled over a few more times (but not very often. We're not the best at doing tummy time, so I just have to rely on what they do at daycare.) She's sleeping through the night regularly, but doesn't nap very well at daycare unfortunately. She's still fighting a cold, but then again, Fabricio and I are also sick (allergies or a cold, we're not sure.) Her constipation is much better, but she tends to have poopy diapers quite frequently, and boy, are they stinky! Since we starting supplementing with 1 bottle of formula each day, she's a little smellier... In general, she's just a very happy baby. We can take her anywhere now, although we know that if it's too close to her naptime she'll get a little cranky. But we have no reservations anymore about taking her out to dinner. Well, it has to be a "family-friendly" place as sometimes when she's "talking" to us she can get quite loud! Oh, and my favorite story - she has a friend at daycare about the same age as her. They love to sit on the floor and talk to each other. Camila will talk, and Alex will laugh back. Then Alex will talk, and Camila will laugh back. I guess they do this for a long time. I wish I could see it; the care providers say the babies are hilarious!

5 1/2 months already?

I can't believe how quickly the time has gone! I have many updates, but not much time. I'll just post pictures now (since I know that's what everyone is really interested in. ;) But just to let everyone know, daycare is going exceptionally well, Camila is sleeping through the night again, and she is ALWAYS happy. That makes all of us at home happy! :) (Of course, I fully expect everything to go downhill now that I've said something!) ;)

Easter dress (we decided at the last minute it was too cold for her "official" Easter outfit!

Chewing on her fingers - a favorite pasttime of Camila's Playing with her feet - another favorite activity This is what she does when she's tired...poor girl!

Trying out her new Exersaucer

Enjoying playing in the sun

Success! We went out to a restaurant!

We finally had enough courage to take Camila out to a restaurant yesterday. It seemed fitting that our first venture to a sit-down restaurant was on her 5 month birthday. We were a little nervous, but we felt pretty good since there were 3 adults (Fabricio, Rita, and me.) Plus, Sunday was Rita's last day with us so we wanted to spend some time together since we really haven't been able to while she was here. Camila was really good - we didn't have any loud crying that would have embarassed us. :) She actually started laughing as she looked around the place. I think she really enjoys going on "trips" as there is so much she loves to look at. We went to the Tin Shed in Savage, on a recommendation from a co-worker. It's such a relief now that we have one successful trip under our belts. :) The last time we went to dinner with Camila was to Chipotle back in mid-December, and it was a disaster as she started screaming 10 minutes after we got there, and wouldn't stop. We had to throw our tacos into a bag and run out. So yes, Rita left early this morning (March 17) and Camila starts day care tomorrow. That's another reason I've been so edgy lately. Poor Fabricio, I've been so snappish at him lately (and that's putting it nicely.) It just makes me sad that Camila will be in day care for so many hours each day, but it's the right thing to do - and we don't have a choice anyway! It will be an adjustment for all of us, but there will be some good things that come out of it. We'll have a better routine, she'll get to interact with other babies, learn to sleep in other places, and Fabricio and I will be able to focus our weekends as a family. It was such a blessing to have Rita with us for so long, and we're happy that Camila and Rita got to know each other and spend so much time together. Oh, I keep meaning to take a picture of Camila when she first wakes up from her nap. She's always a happy baby, blowing raspberries and chatting away. She used to be pretty cranky when she woke up, but the past few weeks she's just a smiley baby!

5 months!

Guess who's 5 months old today! Here's a picture of the birthday girl. Who, by the way, has been sleeping terribly at night for the past 1 1/2 weeks. She's waking up every 3 hours, which has been really hard on all of us. The surprising thing is that she's always in a good mood though, so she's not sleep-deprived. She wakes up like clockwork every 3 hours, wants to eat, and then goes to sleep right away when she's done. It seems like she might be ready for solids, but her Pedi wants us to wait until she's closer to 6 months. This week has been really, really hard.... I got sick earlier in the week, so feeling bad plus not getting any sleep has made me pretty edgy, unfortunately. She's able to sit unassisted for 5-10 minutes now. It's great to see her reach for things, start to topple, but then correct herself. She really seems to enjoy this new perspective on things around her. Still no interest in rolling over, but we don't expect to see that consistently for another month or so.

Yesterday Camila and I visited Angie & Lily Quale. We took some great pictures of the Ole girls (past and future Oles?) Angie's laughing because Camila was starting to have enough of pictures by this time. Camila and I had a lot of fun visiting Angie & Lily, and Camila was surprisingly good the whole time, which was a relief to me! :)

Lily kissing Camila - cute!

Hanging out in her swing in the morning. You can tell she's so much bigger than when we had her in the swing at 1 month. Her feet hang off the end a little, and her head almost reaches the top. Camila and Abuelis Rita