We Begin In the Middle!

I'm starting Principessa Sophia's blog today, on the 9th day before her 6 month birthday. As is evidenced by the fact that we have birthed our first child in our 40's.... obviously, it takes me a little while to get things going!! Shout out to Uncle Doug for starting us on this blogging adventure. I'm going to try to do my best with it, but I apologize in advance for being a slug and not posting as often as I should.

Anyone who checks out this blog has probably gotten Sophia's updates until now. So, I'll start with her report as of today, the 9th day before her 6 month birthday.

She's awesome. What more can we say. She's very busy all of the time. Her current love is the Fisher Price Jumparoo.... where was this thing when I was babysitting in the 80's?? She just loves it, and it wears her out, so that's double good. She's eating more and more cereal and fruit and veges and we've tried some turkey and rice baby food and she's not that crazy about it. My all-knowing mom friends tell me not to give her the baby food meats...they're gross. We can just process up some chicken into a nice paste for her and mix it with some veges and that's way better tasting. Not sure exactly what they do to that baby food meat, but it is kinda gross. I disguise hers by putting sweet potatoes in it, but she still gags about every 4th bite!

Sophia's become so much more active and has reached the point where we can't walk away from her while she's on the changing table. She kicks her way up so that her head hangs off the end!!

She discovers something new every day it seems. She and I took two of our "auntie" babysitters out to lunch today and before I even realized what was going on, she had the silverware roll and extracted the spoon and put it in her mouth.... in like a nanosecond. Jeez. I realize this is just the beginning. Send me some of that 5 hour energy stuff please!!

We're playing a fun game lately, her and I. I take her binky and put it in my mouth and she thinks thats the funniest thing ever. Then she takes it back from me and this goes on and on. Repetitive, I realize.... so goes my new world. And, to all you germophobes....leave me alone. I birthed her, I'll share her paci if I want to....

She continues to sleep well with usually only one or two episodes during the night where Mommy has to go and put her bink back in her mouth for her.... Wish she'd figure out how to get it herself. I'm going to try to plant two of them in there tonight and see how that goes!

But, I can't complain, she gives us a solid 8, sometimes 9 hours of sleep.... well, she sleeps that long, we don't always! Of course, Alan still arises at o'dark-thirty to do all his "he-man soldier"-type exercising and such. But, she sleeps right through all of that. She's obviously from good Italian stock, our automatic cappucino maker's noise doesn't even wake her!

We go at the end of the month for her 6-month check up and more shots. I'm anxious to see how much she's grown. I'm convinced she's closing in on 18 pounds, and the last time Alan measured her, she was almost 27 inches long! She's gonna be a tall one!

More soon.... Love from Principessa's Mommy