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!!

Keeping up with the Goldsteins!

Well here we are, Sydney is 3 months old now. It's so hard to believe...time really does fly by as everyone says. We are doing well and adjusting to my back at work schedule. The first week back Seth stayed home while I worked which was great and made the transition go better. Last week he went back to work on Wed so this was Sydney's first day at the nanny's (Aja's) house. Wednesday was rough for me and I am pretty sure Sydney could pick up on my energy as it was a rough day for her as well. I cried in the morning just thinking about her and how she would feel in a new place without her mommy and daddy around. I wondered if she would be scared and wonder why we left her. After talking myself off the ledge, I realized she knows we love her and she will be fine. We will all adjust with time and get in our groove. When I picked Sydney up that evening, she was happy as a clam in Aja's arms but the second she handed her to me she had a meltdown. I read this is very normal and is a result of the baby saving up all their emotions from the day for when they are with their mommy again who they feel the safest with. We came home and had a little cry together and that was it. The next day she was fine and I was much better also. Aja said she was a little fussy again. Then on Friday Aja sent me a text that said "happy baby today :-)" which made my day. Sydney seems to love Aja's little girl, Bella, who is 1 and a half. When I brought her home she was in a great mood all night! Yes, we are going to be just fine! We also remind ourselves that we are lucky that Sydney only needs to be in childcare 20 hours a week on average since Seth works nights and I work days, we are able to watch her more between our two schedules than most parents. Work is going good and I am shaking off the mommy brain I have had for the past 3 months!!! Actually I feel like I have picked right up where I left off and my business is going much better so that has been great! That's about all I know for now. We are hoping to come home sometime before July so Sydney can meet her family and have fun with all of her cousins!! We really miss everyone more now than ever! Hopefully this blog helps bridge the gap just a little!!
Enjoy the below pictures from the past month.

We call this "passie mouth" and it's one of my absolute favorite things!!!

Sydney sucks her passie so hard it leaves a red ring around her mouth like a clown's mouth. When I was young I loved clowns and had a collection of them. She had just spit out her passie which is laying beside her and has a look on her face like "what?", and with the shirt....I can't even handle it!

Today we went to the Purim Carnival at our temple and for those who don't know this is a Jewish holiday where to celebrate you dress up in costumes and have a party. We dressed Syd up as a ballerina. This little tutu was irresistible! Daddy actually picked it out.

Sydney at 3 months

This is her Bumbo chair that lets her sit up right. She couldn't do that on her own yet. She seems to like it. Daddy put all her babies on her lap and she loved it!

She looks like the marshmallow man in this picture!!

This was right after Daddy feed her a little too much in her bottle and she looked like she might pop!!

This is a hike up the mountain near our house. This Becco carrier is great and can be worn on the back as well. It was a birthday present from my dear friends Farrah, Eric and Kevin.

I had to take this picture before she gets big! I just love how little she looks in her crib still. We are still using the sleep positioner as it keeps her in place so she doesn't move around too much.

These pictures are from a Valentine's Day party we were invited to, which was hosted by Sydney's nanny Aja. She said her husband was coming and some other dads. We got there and it was 20 women and their babies, no men in sight! It was a Mommy and Me group. Seth was a good sport though. For the record Aja's husband did show up later so Seth wasn't the only guy there!! :-)

I love this picture of Daddy and his girl!

The nursery is finally done! We had the bench built into the wall under the window. It really makes the room. We spend most of our time in here playing with the baby. Her room is nicer than ours!

This was a few weeks ago at The Grove, a really beautiful outdoor mall in Los Angeles.

Sydney and Farrah!

The hat finally fits her! If you look at my last post you can see such a difference from when she got this on Christmas Eve. This was Superbowl Sunday. We went to our neighbors across the street who have a daughter my age who also just had a baby 2 months before Sydney. They live on the same street down a block. Our neighbors, Sharron and Joe also have a son who lives in Indiana, so they were cheering on the Colts too. Oh well, there's always next year. Next time we'll get Sydney a Colt's cheerleader uniform!

One of my best friends, Becca, came to visit from Orlando. She was in town for a horse race and spent the day with us. Hopefully she will be able to come back and stay with us soon!

Mommy and baby girl taking a snooze!