25 Weeks!

My baby is one week from being 6 months old. AH! She has gotten too old too fast! I love her just the same though. She is teething right now. It hasn't been that bad but the little bit of bad it has been broke my heart. Sunday night she woke up SCREAMING! and if you know my child you know that she doesn't cry much less scream. She did it for about 10 mins, I was about to cry, Jason was about to cry. We checked her to make sure nothing else could be wrong, gave her some Tylenol and walked her until she went back to sleep. Just like when she was a newborn, it was sweet if it hadn't of been so sad.

She has been eating squash this week and she LOVES them! She gets excited when I feed them to her and squeezes her fists together and smiles. She does not like sweet potato puffs, she makes a hilarious face when we give them to her but she will eat them. Tonight was the first night she had a whole one, I just usually give her a tiny bite. She doesn't like peas, she made the sour face and made the ECK sound. My child the comedian already.

The biggest event of the week is the fact that she can pull herself up to standing. Yes, before she is 6 months (it might be normal but I think she is special) she is pulling herself up. Jason sat her the pack n play Sunday night to change the sheets. I walked out of the room, heard him yell for me and ask why I left her the way that I did. I just figured she had fallen to her side. I walk back in and she is standing holding the edge of the pack n play. Jason by this time is holding on so that she doesn't fall in the floor. When I walked in she turned to me, smiled and gave me a raspberry. She was big time on those this weekend. Every time you looked at her you got a raspberry. This evening I had her in the crib while I did some things in her room. She was sitting in the middle of the crib playing with her glow worm and next thing I know she is pulling herself up on the crib smiling. She is a rat! I can't believe she is big enough, smart enough, old enough, whatever to be doing these things!

The building is up, we just have to finish the roof and the shingles. I have been very weary of my yard since last summer when we found two (small) snakes. Any size snake almost makes me puke but anyway. Jason found a skin a few weeks ago, then Monday night he found "my friend" who it belonged too underneath the lawnmower. GROSS GROSS GROSS. I asked if had screamed like a girl and he said he hadn't (I don't believe him). He dislikes those things as much as I do. It freaks me out to think that as a child the amount of time I spent in the mountains and creeks and never thought a thing about a snake. My cousin & I used to set Bigfoot traps, yes, I said Bigfoot in the hills behind my house all the time. I never once saw a snake or even thought about them. I think my real dislike of them came from the fact that they surprise you. If I were to see them first I may be okay (probably not, I'd probably still get nauseous). Every single time that I go hiking I see a stinking snake. I went on two different trails at Cumberland Falls and saw one on each trail. Jason makes me wait until the fall to go so there is lower chance of seeing one. A couple years ago a copperhead was in strike position to get me at Red River Gorge. I would have had a heart attack if I had seen it. I would have freaked out and it probably would hae gotten me. Thankfully I have a husband who watches out for me and told me to jump. He then proceeded to take a picture. GROSS new subject. Jason has a cold and is getting fat. Apparently he has gained about 6 lbs lately and believes he needs to start running again ASAP. Big deal I have gained 60 in 9 years. When that happens to him then he has a problem. I still have 15 to lose from the baby. I have noticed in the past week that my clothes are fitting better and better. It does seem that I have lost a few lbs. My hope is that it continues to come off. I think walking with the baby in the evenings is helping a lot. We enjoy the time together, she never makes a sound but watches everything. She also swings in baby swings at the park and never makes a sound. She is a such a wonderful child!