SIX MONTHS OLD!

SUPER POST!!

I can not believe she is HALF A YEAR OLD ALREADY!!!

Current Weight: 10200 grams

Current Length: 75cm

Current Size: 0 - 1

(Use the online converter if you would like to work it out in pounds and inches.)

OK... so this post is an extra special long one because I have finally borrowed Dad's camera and have taken a whole bunch of photos and videos that I have been dying to for so long! And what better time to do a super post than her 6 Month post?!!

There is a lot to get through, so feel free to be selective or come back later to check out the rest in small doses, but don't blame me for going nuts OK? Because I have gone SO long without a camera! hehe! (Thanks Dadda!! xx)

This month I have two words to describe Bubette... and they are - CHEEKY MONKEY!! She has sooo much personality now and I gotta tell ya - she's not even crawling yet and she is already a little handful! Nothing we can't handle but boy oh boy is she cheeky!!

She gets very hyperactive and bounces and kicks around, pulls our hair, lets out ear piercing squeals, tries to steal our food, throws her dummy across the room then demands us to go fetch it, fights to stay awake, grabs on tight to everything in sight and wont let go - and when we take something off her she throws a tantrum! She is extremely strong and can be quite the little bossy boots!!

I'm making her sound like quite the little terror eh? Haha well it's not really as bad as it sounds, just ya typical 6 month old TEETHING baby!! It's actually all quite cute really and she does it all with love! It can just get a little bit tiring when she is non stop all day! But Luckily for me - she has good naps during the day to help Mummy recover for the next round! *giggles* Dan gives me good breaks too and will take over when he is home and I am too exhausted. And Thank GOD I have Nanna and Granma helping out every week too! (Thanks guys! xx)

The teething has been a bit hard for her lately - the poor bugger is really feeling the pain! The screams she can belt out are blood curdling! It really is heart breaking when she is clearly in agony and there is not a whole lot we can do about it! Baby panadol doesn't seem to work for her at all, in fact we find it makes her agitated! I am the same - so I'm thinking she might have the same reaction to it as I do. We stopped using Bonjela because we heard that recent studies have shown that it is toxic and can cause brain damage in babies. I don't know how true that is - but we'd prefer to be safe than sorry, besides - it didn't seem to be helping much anyway.

The best thing we have found for her teething is simply to help keep her mind off it! We distract her and keep her entertained as much as we can when she is feeling the pain. I think this is why she can get silly and hyperactive, because she is trying to enjoy herself but the pain is annoying her. But she is such a beautiful happy, bubbly little thing - even when she is in agony and we are very proud of her for getting through it!

She's sitting up on her own now!! Well... she has a little topple every now and then, but she is clearly capable. Wont be long till she'll be crawling! We are going to have to child proof the house very soon I think!

She actually is smarter than I give her credit for! I don't think to try new things because I just expect that she is not ready - when she actually is. Like with the sitting - it was a surprise to me because I assumed she wouldn't be able to so I never really gave her the chance. But just by chance I propped her up on the floor one day when I was reaching for something and realized that she was actually sitting on her own! So I couldn't actually tell you when it started to be honest!

Last week after feeding her one night I left a jar of baby food with her spoon in it on her play table. I must have put it there without realizing because I was searching for it everywhere to clean up and put away. The next morning I put Kayla in the play table, still not realizing it was there. She was happy playing away, when the phone rang so I left her to answer it.

I noticed that she had gone quiet so I popped my head around to check on her and the first thing I saw was her face covered in slop!! I quickly ran over to her and here she was with a spoon full of food in her mouth! I kind of froze for a second wondering where the heck it had come from and while I was thinking about it - here was Kayla - dipping the spoon back into the jar FOR MORE!!

I couldn't believe it!! The clever little thing was feeding herself just like Mummy and Daddy do! I never ever would have thought that she would have been clever enough to do that - but she did! Anyways it clicked to me suddenly that it was her missing dinner from the night before so I grabbed it off her just in case it had gone bad. (Although the weather was really cold that night - so it was fine really.) But she was not a happy chappy for having it confiscated!

She is mimicking us a lot lately - it is very cute. I have noticed that when I have a drink from a cup - she will pick up a toy and pretend to drink it when ever I take a sip. When Dan and I eat our dinner she eyes off our food and wants to eat it too. She will reach out and grab food straight off our plates if she is close enough, or she will just sit there and beg.

I was eating a muffin last week and she was giving me the puppy dog look and reaching out because she wanted some. Dan is a total sucker for this look and he insisted that I give her a little taste of it. As soon as she tasted it - her little eyes lit up and next thing she has snatched the whole muffin off me and starts sucking away madly on it!! I was trying desperately to grab it off her quickly because there is a lot of sugar in it and I didn't want her to have a sugar rush or something (she is already hyper enough!!) But she was just way too strong for me and would not let go!! We actually had to pry her little hands off of it she was gripping on so tight!! When we finally got it back - she threw the biggest tantrum she has EVER had!! It was a nightmare trying to settle her down!.... Never again!

Actually it's funny, when I was pregnant with Kayla - Dan would often joke to me about how I will be the sucker parent and he would be the sensible one. I agreed with this because I have a big heart and give in easily - especially when it comes to cute things like babies and animals!!

But it has turned out to be the complete opposite to that! Dan is actually the sucker parent and I'm the worry wart! It is Dan who gives in to Kayla's demands and cuteness but it is I who puts the foot down to things that may not be best for Kayla! HAHA! Who would have thought!?

Either way I think together we make the perfect parents! :-) I just love our little family!

Here are the latest Photos and Videos of a typical day with Kayla...
(There are LOTS! - I did warn you ;-))...

Daddy's Girl!!

Got ya hair Daddy!...

Not lettin go Daddy...

Ok Cheeky Girl! ... Jokes over...

Daddy forgives you...

Cuddles now...

Ok Daddy... you can have ya hair back... but your nose is mine!...

Cheeky Monkeys!
3 mins 36 seconds long
Lots of fart sounds, giggles and nose biting...

She's getting taller...

Kayla Standing!

1 min 22 seconds long

Kayla is getting stronger and better at standing on her own (with a little help of course!)...

She sits by herself...

Sitting Up!
2 mins 53 seconds long
A little clip of Kayla sitting up all by herself...

She loves to be picked up by Daddy...

and she knows when she is about to go for a drive to Nanny and Poppy's...

Upsies!

7 seconds long
When Kayla wants to be picked up - she does this...

Playtime...

Her hernia has gone down a lot...

Jolly Jumpin!
1 min 28 seconds long
Kayla uses her jumping skills to make music...

Lil monkey...

Play Table Fun!

3 mins 33 seconds long
Kayla plays in her play table with much more ease and excitement now
(Even if it is at 2am on a Sunday morning!!!)...

Dinner Time...

Miss Piggy!
4 mins 14 seconds long
Kayla LOVES her food...

Bath Time...

Splish Splash!

43 seconds long
A little clip of Bub in the bath...

After her bath...

Mirror, Mirror on the wall!
53 seconds long
Kayla spots a prettiest girl of them all...

Nudie Rudie...

Roley Poly!

21 seconds long
Kayla rolling over...

Snuggle Bug on a Rug...

I don't usually like the cats going near Kayla, but while I was taking these photos - out of nowhere our cat Boodgie just parked his bum right next to her!! It was sooo weird because the cats usually stay well away from her! Kayla was really fascinated by it too... so I let him stay for some photos! hehe...

Here's a little clip of it...
58 seconds long

One last play before bedtime...

Toe Biter!

51 seconds long
Kayla is always trying to suck on my toes when ever I am sitting down with her. Here's a clip of her trying again (and don't worry - I moved just in time... but it was a very close call! lol!)...

Bed Time...

Mummy -Daughter Duet!

1 min 32 seconds long

Kayla sings "There's a little bird" with her Mummy!

She usually sings lead but she was a little camera shy this night so she sang back up this time. hehe

She's most gorgeous when she first wakes up in the morning - her face lights up because she is so happy to see us...

And then we do it all again! :-)

By the way... I've had a wee break from the weight loss - so I haven't quite made it to my final goal yet... BUT I haven't gained any more weight either! I've manged to maintain my weight without even dieting!! WOOOHOOO!

BONUS VIDEO

Giggle Guts!

30 seconds long

Here's a special bonus clip of Kayla having giggles at peekaboo after having dinner...

*giggles*

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Losing the baby weight...

FIVE MONTHS OLD!

Sorry it's late!! Bloody Blogger has been down!!

She's just about bigger than the bear now!!

Current Weight: 9590 grams

Current Length: 73cm

Current Size: 0

(Use the online converter if you would like to work it out in pounds and inches.)

I can not believe how much Kayla has grown!! Not just in size, but in maturity too! A lot has happened in her 5th month actually! It is probably the most eventful so far but it sux because I haven't been able to capture any of it on camera coz my videos no longer work! booo! I'll have to see if I can borrow Dad's camera for a week so I can try and capture this list of things...

*Kayla Rolling over.
*Kayla going crazy in the Jolly Jumper.
*Kayla's Hilarious Giggle,
*Kayla's non stop Babbling.
*Kayla grabbing everything in sight.
*Kayla Singing.
*Kayla's clever thinking.
*Kayla blowing raspberries.
*Kayla lifting her arms out to be picked up.
*Kayla's cheeky personality! ... and I'm sure there will be many more to come.

I'll make that my mission for my next post.

First of all - she got her first TOOTH!!! Well it isn't all the way through yet but a little tooth has cut through on her right side on the bottom! She's been a little grizzly through the teething but it actually hasn't been that bad. She's a tough little thing and can handle just about anything! She's quite the brave little girl!

She's a real wriggler now too and has had a few bumps to the head this month because she just wont keep still! A couple of times I'll be carrying her into a room and she has got so excited and thrown her head back causing it to smack on the door frame!! I'll expect her to start cracking up in pain - but the little boof head thinks it's so funny and lets out a big giggle! So now I have to guard her head when ever I'm walking into a room!

Changing her is a lot harder now coz she wriggles around on the change table and just wants to grab everything! She can grab hold of the side of the change table, and pull herself from her back to her belly in an instant and somehow Mummy has managed to put her nappy on back to front!! lol! She's a cheeky monkey!

She kind of said her first word a few weeks ago and it wasn't Mama or Dada!! She was at Nanny and Poppys at the time so I missed it - but apparently she was watching the TellyTubbies when the character LaLa said "LaLa dance" and then Kayla repeated the word "LaLa". SO BUMMED that I missed it!! But it wont be long before she will be yapping away! (She does that now - just not in English yet lol.)

She likes to sing too, she's been doing this for months but I keep forgetting to mention it in every post! Every night when I put her to bed - I sing her a lullaby, and she joins in by moaning and humming away! It's so cute! Sometimes she'll wake up in the middle of the night and start singing herself back to sleep. Dan has sometimes mistaken it for a meowing cat! LOL!

Her giggles are hilarious now and very contagious!! She use to be a little sensitive and would get scared easily like when Dan would playfully blow a raspberry on her belly she would totally FREAK out! The bottom lip would start quiverring - followed with a big cry and we could just not calm her down quickly enough! But now she's even cheekier than we are and loves to play rough and giggles her little head off at everything! I can just imagine her laughing her head off anytime she gets in trouble when she is older! lol.

She's even learnt to blow her own raspberries now! I never thought I would be so proud of my baby for making a fart sound lol! But a few weeks ago one morning she kept screwing up her face like she was constipated and sticking out her tongue like she had a horrid taste in her mouth! I couldn't figure it out all day and didn't know what was going on with her.

But then by the end of the day she did it again but this time she managed to blow a raspberry as she poked her tongue out! You should have seen the look on her face - she was so thrilled that she had finaly mastered it and I realized that she had been trying this whole time to blow a raspberry (just like we do to her!) It was hilarious!!

Her clever thinking is really showing through now, you can just about tell what she is thinking just by watching her. Nanny gave her her first rusk biccy (for teething) and as soon as she grabbed it she went to put it straight in her mouth but it went straight into the eye! But instead of continuing to poke it at her face and hope for the best, she stopped, looked hard at the biccy, thought hard about where her mouth is and then ever so slowly moved it towards her mouth and then hit bullseye! She has been doing it ever since... such a clever little cookie!

She's certainly proving to be a very fast learner!

She's almost sitting up by herself, but her heavy head weighs her down a little and she topples over in no time! She's such a chubba though - so I'm not suprised!!

But my favourite thing so far has been her learning to reach out for cuddles. It has been only a recent thing that I have never noticed before - but a few days ago I had her in the play table and she was getting a bit cranky, so I walked over to her. As soon as she saw me, she propped up gave me a big grin and lifted her arms up straight at me like she wanted to be picked up! It was such a heart melter and I couldn't resist! But now she does it all the time and Mummys back is getting sore!!! lol! I still can't say no though - it really is very adorable!

OK well I think I've covered everything for this month! If not I'll bring it up in the next post.

Oh! By the way... I reached my first goal weight of 56KGs the DAY that Kayla turned 5months! I was 56Kgs on my wedding day... so that's a big goal for me! But I wanted to lose another 2Kgs just so I have a few extra kilos to play with. (But I haven't weighed myself since then coz the scales need new batteries lol!) So YAY me!!

Recent Piccys...














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Losing the baby weight...

She's Still Cute...

Hey Guys...

Well as you can see I've cut back on the posting and that is because of a number of reasons...

1) Sometimes the website is down!! (I tried to get on to do a Mothers Day post but I couldn't even log on!)

2) My computer is playing up and sometimes it's hard to even turn it on! (Brand new computer too!!)

3) My camera is stuffed and I haven't been able to take photos anyway!! (I know... could I get any more unlucky?~!)

But most importantly - Kayla is finally in a better routine (for now) I go to bed with her at around 9pm and we both sleep through until about 7- 8am the next morning (with a few sleepy feeds in between.) She is napping less now - so most of my day is spent entertaining her, and I love it!! And when she does nap - I usually nap with her.

So I don't have a lot of time to post lately. I'll just leave it at the monthly posts for now (or 2 posts a month if I can) but we'll see how we go.

For those who don't like missing anything - I've actually got a notifications list that sends an email out to let you know when there is a new post. Let me know if you want me to put you on it - so that you don't have to keep checking back on the blog to find nothing new.

NOW!! What to catch up on...

SOLIDS! Yes! We started her on farex in the beginning and she absolutely loved it!! Silly me got Dan to record a video of it and it was absolutely priceless! But unfortunately - Dan didn't know what the heck he was doing and somehow forgot to push the record button! LOL!! SO I was a bit bummed out that we missed it!

The second time we tried her on a garden vegie mush... but she did not like that at all!! It was hilarious the faces she pulled, again we missed the best part but I did get this little clip which is really nowhere near as good as the first!

(I'm joking about the chocloate of course! But if she is anything like her Mummy - she wouldn't knock it back! :-P lol)

Unfortunately after that, she got turned off the spoon altogether - so when I tried her on the farex again another time - she refused to have any because she remembered the horrible taste of the last one! lol

But since then we have tried other flavours and she took a liking to it again, her favourite flavour so far is Apple Custard - she polished off half a jar the little piggy! :-)

SHe is such a massive cute head and is starting to babble her little head off. She loves having conversations with you - she seems to think she makes sence and that we can understand what she is saying - it is soooo cute!!! (I really must get a new camera when we can afford it - so that I can capture it!!)

She's starting to mimic us heaps more too now - so we are trying to teach her to say MaMa and DaDa. (So original! :-P) Me and Dan have got a little bet going -I want her first word to be MaMa but he wants it to be DaDa! So it will be inetersting to see who wins! hehe

Although I believe she has already said her first word which is 'Hello' because it has got to be the most said word to her and it sounds like she mimics it spot on somedays.

She can pick up objects and hold them with ease now like there is nothing to it - she pretty much grabs the bottle off me now like she wants to hold it herself. She even likes to rip the spoon off me and feed herself Apple custard because I just can't get it in her mouth quick enough she loves it that much! lol.

I had a lovely first Mothers Day, we went to Sizzler for breaskfast and although we stood in line for an hour - it was worth it and a very lovely morning. I hope the rest of you Mothers had a wonderful Day too!!

Here are some of the latest piccys (Thanks to other's who have taken photos for me!)

Waiting in line on Mothers Day...

We went to a friends BBQ to watch the footy - Australia vs NZ... Guess who Kayla was cheering for...

(Thanks for the shirt Aunty JMay!)

Where's Kayla?...

Giggle Guts...

Little Pink Riding hood...

And here are a couple of video clips that I couldn't upload before...

This was taken at Sizzler when John and Emily were here...
Small things...

Playing at Nanny and Poppys...

And here is a beautiful flower for all of you Mothers out there...

By the way... Happy Birthday to Daddy Dan for tomorrow!! xoxoxo

Thanks for stopping by! xx

Losing the baby weight...