5 Months and Counting!!!

Wow, where to begin?? The last time I blogged was about a month and a half ago. Ugh. I wish I had the time to do it more often, but I am still working on balance as I navigate through Motherhood! All is well with us!! I am back in the grove with work and business is a lot better so that's been great. Sydney is 5 months and just cut her first tooth yesterday!! She's been drooling and chewing on her hands for 2 months so we weren't sure when she would actually start to teeth, but yesterday I said to Seth let's look and see if any teeth are ready to come out and sure enough there was a little nub of a tooth already broken through the skin! I was beyond excited and proud of our little baby for hitting this milestone of babyhood! Today there is another one coming up and Sydney has had enough! Today was hard, she was upset most of the day. I feel so bad for her since she doesn't understand what's happening and why she hurts. I am hoping this won't last long, poor baby. Other exciting news, we have started Sydney on some solids in the past week or so. She was solely on breast milk until about 3 weeks ago, when we had to start supplementing with formula because I couldn't keep up with her demand. She took to the formula just fine and has 2 bottles of formula a day usually. Just this past week or so we started trying some solids. We got a Babycook which is a great all in one baby food machine that makes it really easy to prep her food from scratch. I started with some carrots and she wasn't really fond of them. Then we tried sweet potatoes which she ate half of and spit the other half out. Then a couple days ago I gave her peas and she seems to really like them (See first pic below)!! Lastly, we have hired a new nanny who Sydney loves and she loves back! Her name is Ute and she is from Germany. She's been in the US for 3 years and previously was a au pair for a family with 3 children, including a new born, for three years. She's about my age (ok a few years younger) and is just really kind, warm and loving. She comes to our house and is able to give Sydney all the attention and care she needs. Today when Sydney was having a rough time, she just held her all day even while she napped, because she just knew that was what she needed. She's great! Below are some pictures taken since the last blog.

This is the most recent pic of Sydney taken a few days ago.

She can't decide if she wants to eat her peas or suck her thumb!

She's a full fledged thumb sucker! This was a little over a month ago.

I love this sweet picture! Daddy took this when I was out of town and sent it to me

on my phone. This was after bath time which around here we call "naked baby time"!!

This was a few weeks ago and is after a bottle of formula which ended up half on her chin!

2 weeks ago our dear friends, Jacquie and Randy, from Indy came to stay with us for a few days and the following pictures are from their visit. Above is their 4 year old son Gavin cuddling with Pedie!

This was on the beach in Santa Monica.

I love this sweet pic!!

Jacquie, Randy and Gavin

The kiddos!!

Gavin had a blast with our dog door

(which my awesome husband installed himself I might add)!

Our friend Kevin with Sydney. This was the first time he saw her awake, as she was always asleep when he had been over in the past. Kevin is the one who married Seth and I in Mexico.

Sydney and her Auntie Jacquie!!

She looks so small in Randy's arms!! Except for the belly of course! :-)

Sydney with some bunny rabbits she got for Easter from our sweet friends Helene, Shannon, London and Glen. The below pictures are from dinner with them a few weeks ago.

This is after London got jealous of her mom, Shannon, holding the baby and we tried to smooth things over and get her to give the baby a kiss. It didn't go so well as you can see!

After this picture she did finally give Sydney a kiss and was really happy when I took her back and her Mommy was all hers again! :)

Daddy is so funny!

This is about a month ago. She's a happy girl!

She's all about her feet!!