Seven Months!

Here's Adelaide in daddy's Rock Band box (his birthday present).

Adelaide turns seven months tomorrow! I can't believe it. In the past couple of days, she's started the real babbling - with consonants and vowels. It sounds like "ba, da, and ga." She started creeping. She's up to about 2 inches now, but she really wants to go. This weekend we are taking our first plane ride to Omaha to see family. A nice, short plane ride (and Grandma Susan for an extra set of hands/extra lap). She likes the Ergo carrier now, so we don't have to bring the stroller, which should help. She is so happy to play and go places now.

Meeting Great-Grandparents!

Adelaide's baptism was last weekend over Mother's day! Four generations of Gienapp women. It was her first time meeting her great-grandparents! She was very good during church - she especially loved the music. My first mother's day, and Addie sent me flowers! She also made me a handprint with a picture and a frame. She now sits up for hours playing (as long as people play with her). She seems very close to creeping - we really need to baby-proof!

Six months and Sitting up!

Adelaide has been showing interest in sitting, sitting with support for awhile. Over Easter weekend, she was up to sitting for about six seconds before she fell over. At the same time, she didn't get a lot of chances to practice, because she was held the entire time! She went from arms to arms to arms.

Then, after work on Monday, April 13, she started sitting - really sitting - for several minutes! I knew she must have been practicing at daycare. Sure enough, they spent a long time on Monday practicing sitting with her, and now she can do it!

She is now sticking her tongue out at people (in a nice and funny way), and it's really cute. I'm trying to capture a picture. Please note: In real life she's really smiley! She makes cute faces all the time, but she is really curious about the camera, and so we have difficulties getting the really smiley faces.

I can't believe she's six months old tomorrow! She's about 17 pounds (we'll go to the doctor soon). She's growing out of her 3-6 month sleepers. She now loves peek-a-boo and "So big!" What a big girl!

Roly Poly Adelaide

Adelaide now is rolling over back to front and front to back. Around March 27, she was sleeping on her side, and in the morning rolled onto her belly and cried. She had forgotten how to roll back! Over the weekend and during our spring break she started rolling from back to front a lot! She remembered how to roll back (usually) and is now a roly poly Adelaide. This was really fun, because Addie and I went to Iowa March 30 - April 1 to see her grandparents just back from Florida. Her grandpa hadn't seen her since Thanksgiving! She now REALLY wants to crawl and get into stuff. You can just see her plotting. She's close to sitting up, and she started with her baby cereal. (Early according to some books, and late according to others - we split the difference). She loves sitting up (with help)!

I finally printed off photos (the first time to have hard copies ever). Over 200 pictures! Most of them had been uploaded to Picasa Web Albums, but not all. While her grandparents held her, I caught up and ordered photos! I'm putting them in albums little by little.

She loves walking outside. That's good, because so do we. She fell asleep bundled up in her stroller Thursday, even though it was only 40 degrees out. She's wearing the snowsuit her grandma Susan made. I think this summer, stroller naps may be the only way I get her to nap.

Five months!

Adelaide was five months old yesterday. She celebrated by going over to her grandma's condo for a visit. (Actually, we celebrated by having a grown-up date.) Unfortunately, she cried a lot. She may have been tired (notice a pattern in the posts about resisting naps?) or it may have been that she isn't used to the condo. She hadn't been there since Christmas, and she just kept looking around as if to say, "This isn't my home!" She's planning on visiting grandma's place more (instead of just the other way around).

Saturday, Addie and her friend Sydney had a playdate(along with my friend Kristin and I). We went for a long walk to and around Lake Como. That was three miles (with a quick snack break for all at the coffee shop on the lake). It was the first time Addie has made that trip on the OUTSIDE. I told her how she had made that same trip almost every day her whole life on the INSIDE. It was so warm and nice!!!! Addie also enjoys walks at her daycare. They put 6-8? babies on a special wagon equipped with baby seats. That is pretty precious. Daycare is going better - I mean, I'm getting more used to it anyway. We're tempted to buy the cool swing they have there, it is magic for her sleeping, but she'll grow out of it so soon.

She learned a new screeching sound - it's hard to explain. We think it means, "Look at me! Pay attention to moi!" because she screeches when she's happy and really mad. It is still kind of cute for now, but it could get old. She doens't roll over stomach to back very often - she rolls over back to side, and is really working on rolling back to stomach. She loves standing in her exer-saucer.

Four month rolling over!

Our little Adelaide started rolling over on Sunday! (Stomach to back). We are so excited! She is becoming such the little character: laughing at daddy, sucking (and gnawing) on her hands, and repeatedly slamming her legs down in the crib. We aren't sure why she slams her legs down in the crib, but by doing so, she can inch her way around and lay perpendicular to the way we left her. She will FINALLY spend longer amounts of time in her various baby carriers, so I can get a few things done. She especially likes facing outward so she can look at the world.

We are also exhausted, as Addie started waking frequently (every hour or so) ever since she started daycare. We are trying to get her back to four-hour periods of sleep. Of course daycare is very germy, so she just got over a bout with RSV, a potentially serious respiratory infection. Luckily, she got through her sickness without any problems. We were worried, though! Also, RSV in an adult is just a cold, so Matt and I only had to battle a run-of-the-mill cold. Today, we have her four month check-up (including, I'm sure, some vaccinations). Wish us luck!

Enjoy the following video of her rolling over (and me trying to encourage her). Notice she finally rolls over for her "people" all of you far away!

Daycare Day One

I dropped little Adelaide off at daycare this morning. She was kicking and smiling. She played with a toy, looked at the other babies, and looked at me as if to say, "It's ok mom! I'll be fine!" But it doesn't feel fine for the mom. It is so strange to be a mother, so far I just feel guilty any moment I'm not with her. Several co-workers and Facebook friends had words of encouragement that really got me through the day. One even checked on her when she dropped her own sons off at daycare (we go to the same one). I received a gift today from one co-worker - the cute lion hat that she made, thanks, Andrea! Look at how tired she is - daycare tired Addie out. She hasn't slept so much in ages! :)