That site meter thing I talked about? The one that tells me how many visits this poor neglected site gets each day? It told me that, indeed, a faithful few are still checking in. Bless you, and I am sorry! I have lots of catching up to do, and the journal-y posterity stuff has to come first.
I've had the unshakable desire lately to freeze my kids at the ages they are right now. As this is impossible short of the proverbial brick-on-the-head, I've decided instead to write down everything I know about each of the little ones in their respective stages so I can at least look back one day and remember what this summer looked like in our house.
First is Selah, though I am risking Derek's accusations of favortism in picking her to start out. (He was joking just this morning that the other kids are going to get jealous with all my kissing on Selah.) It's too difficult not to love on her with bravado, though, and I will harbor no guilt in doing so. Selah is everything delightful in a baby: easy-going, round, quick-to-smile and a great eater and sleeper. She is over 20 pounds at 6 months old, and dines exclusively on momma's milk and a few spoonfuls of rice cereal every other day or so... when we remember to give her a little more practice with it. Selah grabs at objects she wants with sticky starfish hands, and manipulates them in the general direction of her little pink mouth. She loves to watch her brother and sister play around her, and is beginning to get somewhat frustrated that she's not tumbling around with them. Eden and Judah seem to understand this, and will take a break from tearing around the place to baby talk to their little sister and give her jumper a bounce.
Selah is the first babe up in the morning, waking up to nurse anywhere between 5 and 7am. Often, she'll go back to sleep after this early morning feeding, though she sometimes hangs out with me while I sip coffee and get on the computer before the rest of the house wakes up. She is a master roller when laid upon the carpet, and makes up for the fact that she doesn't yet crawl with a surprising ability to maneuver her round little body into positions only a baby ninja could achieve. Perhaps her combination roll/scoot/pivot/roll again will make her my earliest crawler; all Selah seems to care about is that it gets her from here to there (or somewhere else) by her own movements. As we speak, she has managed to get herself jammed under a chair in the den.
She is soft.
She is round.
She has rolls and creases in abundance.
She has blue eyes that sparkle when she smiles.
She is off the pediatrician's percentile charts, and has outgrown nearly all of her 9-month clothes. She and Judah are both in a size 4 diaper.
She is not easily shaken, and rarely fusses for reasons apart from hunger or tiredness (or being jammed underneath a chair.)
At six months old, Selah Joelle has yet to defy her "easiest baby" status. Talk to me once she's really on the move. :)
I've had the unshakable desire lately to freeze my kids at the ages they are right now. As this is impossible short of the proverbial brick-on-the-head, I've decided instead to write down everything I know about each of the little ones in their respective stages so I can at least look back one day and remember what this summer looked like in our house.
First is Selah, though I am risking Derek's accusations of favortism in picking her to start out. (He was joking just this morning that the other kids are going to get jealous with all my kissing on Selah.) It's too difficult not to love on her with bravado, though, and I will harbor no guilt in doing so. Selah is everything delightful in a baby: easy-going, round, quick-to-smile and a great eater and sleeper. She is over 20 pounds at 6 months old, and dines exclusively on momma's milk and a few spoonfuls of rice cereal every other day or so... when we remember to give her a little more practice with it. Selah grabs at objects she wants with sticky starfish hands, and manipulates them in the general direction of her little pink mouth. She loves to watch her brother and sister play around her, and is beginning to get somewhat frustrated that she's not tumbling around with them. Eden and Judah seem to understand this, and will take a break from tearing around the place to baby talk to their little sister and give her jumper a bounce.
Selah is the first babe up in the morning, waking up to nurse anywhere between 5 and 7am. Often, she'll go back to sleep after this early morning feeding, though she sometimes hangs out with me while I sip coffee and get on the computer before the rest of the house wakes up. She is a master roller when laid upon the carpet, and makes up for the fact that she doesn't yet crawl with a surprising ability to maneuver her round little body into positions only a baby ninja could achieve. Perhaps her combination roll/scoot/pivot/roll again will make her my earliest crawler; all Selah seems to care about is that it gets her from here to there (or somewhere else) by her own movements. As we speak, she has managed to get herself jammed under a chair in the den.
She is soft.
She is round.
She has rolls and creases in abundance.
She has blue eyes that sparkle when she smiles.
She is off the pediatrician's percentile charts, and has outgrown nearly all of her 9-month clothes. She and Judah are both in a size 4 diaper.
She is not easily shaken, and rarely fusses for reasons apart from hunger or tiredness (or being jammed underneath a chair.)
At six months old, Selah Joelle has yet to defy her "easiest baby" status. Talk to me once she's really on the move. :)
5 comments:
I check in daily. Thanks for the new post! The photos are beautiful, as is your round little babe! See you at SCHOOL this week!
I have been waiting patiently. Selah looks so easygoing and I just want to squeeze her!
She is just precious!
My goodness that child looks like her mother. I know. I was there. :)
Selah is so gorgeous!!! Those cheeks and that little chin and those eyes!
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