Rough night

Smiling during tummy time

Ceilidh is pretty good about her night time sleeping. Last night though she kept waking up quite frequently 12 am, 2, 3 and 4. Needless to say I was very tired by morning and looking forward to a relatively quiet day. The culprit I believe is her first tooth. I can see a little nuby sticking out of her bottom jaw on her gum line. She must not be comfortable and kept waking up to be soothed. While I can tell she is fussier during the day at least she has teething toys which she can stick in her mouth. At night she doesn't have this distraction so she must wake up more frequently due to the pain. I am glad they don't remember this later on. Ouch.

My Ceilidh Bear with her daddy

On other notes Ceilidh is hovering around 14 lbs. We are still trying to introduce her to the world of food not expecting her to eat anything but wanting her to get the feel of trying to put food in her mouth. So far she has managed to gum watermelon, peaches, and carrots. We are trying the approach of letting her have whole foods and feed herself and not puree everything. She isn't six months yet so we don't really expect too much. If nothing else she sits in her high chair and plays (sometimes with food) while we have supper. Her favourtie game is throwing her rings on the floor (that's what we give her to play with). She gums each one, and then they end up on the floor. She has enough to last her through supper so we don't have to collect them till the end. Image when she gets food, to bad the cat only likes cat food it would be helpful in cleaning up the mess.

Trying watermelon

Trying carrots

5 months

Everything in her mouth except for food

Today Ceilidh is 5 months and I don't know where the time went. She now weighs 13 lbs 13 oz so she has doubled her birth weight of 6 lbs 11 oz. She has come so far from the little wee thing and is on her way to learning new skills each day. Currently, she is mastering the art of sitting by herself and I notice each day she gets better at it, which means not tipping over as often and correcting her balance.

This morning I tried so see what she would do with some cereal as I had some extra milk left over. She clearly had no interest in food. This is what we have been seeing since we do offer her some food every so often and while she puts almost everything in her mouth when it comes to food she is not interested. She is still young to be eating solids, most start at 6 months so we won't push it. For now we make sure she is there to see us eat and give her a baby spoon to play with.

Playing with spoon and bowl

Not impressed with the cereal

For the fall we have her signed up for swimming lessons with her cousin Cameron, library time with Library Sue and we hope to do some singing classes (rhyme time). I also hope to spend more time at the park as now she has experienced the swing and loves it. Yeah my child can play at the park.
Looking forward to the fall.