Isabelle continues to amaze us. This past week Isabelle turned 7 months and all the wonderful things I’ve said about her every month past, continue to apply this month.
Although she unfortunately spent the weeks on her way to her 7 months sick, she continued to be a happy baby. I think with the start of school, her lovely brothers, aka walking germ monsters, brought home a variety of nice infection causing pathogens that made their way to, well Isabelle. First it was a runny nose followed by a stuffy nose, a cough here and there and then the wheezing started. Next thing we knew we had made 6 trips to the pediatricians office in less than 3 weeks. Yep, you name it, she pretty much had it this past month. Ear infection, eye infection, respiratory infection, and the latest… reactive airway disease, which just happened to include a frightening pre-diagnosis of infant pneumonia. Thankfully the chest x-ray showed there was no pneumonia, but with all the scary whispering between the doctor and nurses, the stat instructions to “get a chest x-ray now”, followed by the x-ray tech, holding up Isabelle’s x-ray and saying, “They sent you here to see if she has pneumonia right?”, I’ve decided I’d prefer never to experience that situation again. Thankfully she is doing much better and this past weekend finally made the turn and is back to acting like her old self.
Some of the things Isabelle has enjoyed most this month is talking to her “friends”. Tigger, Bee, and Puppy Dog are her favorite stuffed friends and by talking to them, I mean she usually forcefully grabs them with both hands, screams a piercing, room silencing happy scream, and finally shoves her friend into her mouth to be chewed on and covered in drool. She loves it and repeats this happy tradition over and over with each “friend.” Isabelle has also decided this past month that she’s rather spend most of her time sitting up rather than lying down, however she’s still trying to figure out what to do when she reaches too far to get one of her toys, topples over and ends up like a cockroach on her back. She can roll over and over and over but she still hasn’t figured out how to get back to the sitting position. Well, I take that back, she has figured out how to get back to sitting position… it goes something like this. Face plant onto the carpet, regain bearings, roll to the left, roll to the right, realize your back in the same place you first started and begin to scream. Wait for mom to appear and sit you back up. Success, you’re back in business.
Another area where we are in business is in her eating. The girl, is just like her mom and LOVES to eat! If only her mom would eat so healthily. Isabelle happily stuffs down squash, sweet potatoes, peas, green beans and carrots. That, along with her oatmeal make her one happy baby. She smiles from ear to ear and then shoves her fingers in her mouth only to come out wiping the vegetable of the night across her face. She's a very good eater and I look forward to introducing fruits to her soon. She currently weighs 15 lbs 1 ounce and is just over 28 inches long.
Isabelle also continues to love her exersaucer, or super-loud-bouncer as we affectionately call it. The girl is actually pretty strong and has figured out how to "bounce" her bouncer across the house. I don't think it is technically made to actually move anywhere but up and down, but some how our baby girl has figured out how to make the thing mobile. And even more enjoyable the "bouncer" is not a quiet toy. It is actually the opposite. Anyone causally passing by our front sidewalk while Isabelle exersaucers can easily hear it from the front yard. It perhaps, sounds like someone is pounding a 2x4 through our wall or beating a steak with a mallet over and over and over. I've learned she can't be in it while the boys attempt to do homework because the boys have told me and I quote, "MOM, she's so loud I can't even think." But she loves it and celebrates with huge wide mouth gum smiles as she makes her way across the house and back.
And with all those calories burned throughout the day we are starting to see her sleeping longer and longer at night. In fact, I hesitate to say it but will anyway, there have been several nights when she's slept from 7 p.m. until 5:30 a.m. Those days are glorious, now if I could only retrain my body to sleep through the night. I for some reason still decide to wake up several times during the night just to check on her and make sure she's still sleeping. Even though I still wake up, it is wonderful to still see her sleeping and helps me get right back to sleep. We hope this trend of sleeping longer continues.
Isabelle has been such a wonderful blessing to us from the moment we met her, but I find with each passing day, we love and enjoy her more than the day before. In the last few weeks she has become so engaged with us and with others around us. She smiles so easily, with her wide mouth, toothless grin and loves to be talked to. She responds now when called by her name, and as she sees who called her name she responds with a slight tilt of her head and a smirk. In those moments, my heart melts. And just tonight she got try her own sippy cup and LOVED it. Even though she spilled more water on the carpet and on her, it was clear to see that she was so excited about the possibility of holding her own cup. She is growing up so quickly and I most days, wish I could stop time and put ever moment in a bottle to relive over and over. As we all know life doesn't work like that, so I try to savor ever moment possible, tuck the feelings into my heart forever, and look forward to tomorrow and what new adventure with her may come.
There's one thing for sure, that little baby girl has brought us a lot of love. And we thank God every moment for her.
Until next time,
angie
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