July 23, 2008 at 11:29 am (Self-Discovery, Turning Into My Mother)
Tags: asthma, baby, cute, noises, sniff
Eva makes the cutest noises and expressions. She coos and screams and babbles and smiles and looks perplexed. One of her most notable and adorable expressions happens when she scrunches up her nose and sniffs. She does this when she is happy, and when I ask her to (seriously). When she first started doing it, we were convinced she had something up her nose. We even used the syringe bulb.
She also sharply inhales air when she is having a good time. It sounds like she is desperately gasping for air. When she first started making these sounds, I went to the doctor, convinced she had asthma or some horrible allergy. I have subsequently learned that lots of babies make this sound, but I am the only Mom I know who went to the doctor when it happened. I think my own mom personality is coming out, and it looks like I am neurotic.
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July 22, 2008 at 11:18 am (Pronouncements)
Tags: baby, cute, hair
This is one of the comments Eva’s appearance elicits most often. I’ve been meaning to write a post about her hair for a long time, I just didn’t have the right picture. Eva has amazing hair. Hair I could only dream of. It is this beautiful, wavy, soft, brown, blond, red combination that is tempting to try to get a hairdresser to recreate. The other day I walked in late to a Mom’s group and everybody just oohed and ahhed. Most babies at Eva’s age are bald or are staring to grow thin, sparse hair. But Eva has always had a full head of hair. And not just any hair, beautiful hair.
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July 20, 2008 at 11:21 pm (Firsts, water)
Tags: baby, cute, sippy cup, water
Giving Eva water for the first time was really scary. I was so worried she was going to choke. It doesn’t help that Eva’s Dad had recently read a frightening article on delayed drowning (don’t google it). However, after other moms gave me demonstrations of their babies drinking water, we tried it. We started with a real cup, which is really messy. Then we moved on (backwards?) to sippy cups. She has to close her gums (no teeth yet!) around the spout to make the water come out. I thought she wouldn’t get it, but she almost immediately did. Now we are working on getting her to hold the sippy cup and drink out of it by herself. She mostly just bangs it around and throws it on the floor. Oh, but most importantly, she loves water!
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July 9, 2008 at 10:28 am (Adventures)
Tags: baby, cute, Fort Ross, travel
Eva is so much fun to travel with. She is completely portable. We can take her wherever, lay out a blanket and don’t have to worry too much about everything being baby-proofed. The ideal trip is two hours away, so she gets a good nap in the car, and doesn’t get too bored in the car seat. A few weekends ago, we had planned to go to my parents house, but due to fires all over the state, anything not directly on the coast was filled with hazardous air. I could not subject my daughter’s new tiny lungs to this, so we went up the coast to Fort Ross. We saw some weird stuff. Do you think babies can get carsick?
Weird stuff after the jump…
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July 6, 2008 at 10:48 am (Loving It, Pronouncements)
Tags: 6 months, 7 months, baby, cute, personality
6 months of age is amazing (7 months too. I’ve been meaning to write this post forever!). Eva’s personality is beginning to show and she is this happy, smiley, loving, little person. She sits and moves a little bit in her immediate area, but I’m not having to chase her down (yet). She is so easygoing. If a toy gets out of her reach she doesn’t get upset, she just finds something else to play with. She loves games and is beginning to make up a few of her own. We are having such a good time!
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