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| i'm doing so terrible keeping a record of little honey's accomplishments. she started kinda crawling right before easter and she's just gotten faster. she's always on her tummy, but she gets around quite well now. we tried to childproof our living room/all purpose room. we covered the fireplace with all of the extra blankets that were in that room anyways and blocked off access to the electrical outlets and used all of the things in the room to pen her in. she can still escape into the dining room (couch room), but it's easy to just lay there to block her path or keep an eye on her to prevent her from getting anywhere. our childproofing wasn't meant so that she was left alone by herself, just that she has more freedom to individually explore/play. the past week she started pulling herself up some and pulling things off the lower shelves. so i think we already need our second round of childproofing.
also around easter she started getting teeth. she has two on the bottom and the two on the top have poked through. another 1 or 2 should be coming soon as well. so far it hasn't been too bad. just the drooling, maybe occassionally slightly more fussy, and maybe a few more nightly wake ups. we found her a sophie for fifty cents this weekend.
she weighed 22 pounds at 7 months. she's getting so big. she's starting to reach her arms up to be picked up and holds on a little while being held. she's so cute.
i can't think of anything else right now...
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| something strange happened yesterday. tom and i went to boston market for dinner because tom got a coupon for it and had thought about it recently. while we were trying to figure out what we'd like to eat i saw johnny a. he was leaving with his family and it was like i saw him and recognized him but it still took me like a minute to be like it's john. for some reason my mind couldn't comprehend the situation. i just kinda waved because i was pretty much dumbfounded and he was leaving and i think he likes to avoid interactions with his family because he sometimes finds them embarrassing. i think it could be less embarrassing because his mom knows i'm not a potential girlfriend or anything. they ended up coming over, though, to see camille since she was with us (they actually walked out and then walked back in cause i think his mom wanted to say hi. probably why he can find them slightly embarrassing). i think it's funny cause john and i get along well, but i think it's kinda awkward when other people are with us. we are best with just the two of us and possibly a small interaction with someone else that john recognizes while we are out that i am introduced to and that's about it.
we also went to kohl's because tom got $50 in kohl's cash to spend and so i was going to get a pair of tennis shoes. i don't really need new shoes, i just felt like getting a new pair. i couldn't find any of the styles that i found acceptable and i'm not really that picky. they just didn't have any. i even looked through the sandals and clearance boots and couldn't find any shoes that i wanted. this is the second time that i went shopping with the intention of buying shoes that i didn't need but they would be free/cheap and couldn't find any. boo.
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| i need to write about the first day of spring.
little honey turned 6th months old, so she had a doctor's appointment. nothing particularly exciting. she is still in the 95th percentile. she weights 20 pounds 7 ounces. she isn't showing any signs of teeth yet. i never have any questions or concerns when i go to the doctor's because i think camille is perfect. the doctor will usually tell me stuff and say that i don't need to worry because blah blah blah. it makes me feel a little bad like other parents worry about their children more so i should too. i guess i just completely understand that babies develop at their own rates.
after the doctor's my mom and i went to aldi's cause i wanted some potatoes and then we met alissa at my parents' house. then we all went for free rita's. we got one for camille.  i gave her a little taste and she seemed ok with it. she's ok with everything. then we went to my grandma's and had lunch. my mom wanted to get some things at kuhn's so we left camille at my grandma's and i went with my mom.
when we got back i wanted to hurry home because i wanted to be back at my parents' by 5 cause i had my date with johnny a. when i asked my mom if she could watch camille for a little until tom got home she was like didn't you go out with john on the first day of spring last year? is that your yearly date? so we've been figured out. i didn't get home until after 3 and i had a lot of groceries to put away. i also fed camille to see if she wanted to take a nap, but she didn't. so i played with her for about 15 minutes before i had to get ready to go. i was fine on time, except she wanted to be held a little while i was getting ready and she threw up on my shirt. so i had to change. when i was almost ready to go she threw up on my shirt again. this time changing took me longer because i was running out of clean t-shirts that fit acceptably and so i was trying things on for 10 minutes. pretty much the entire time she was screaming too because she wanted me to pick her up, but i couldn't cause she was now making me late. i didn't end up getting to my parents until 5:20, but it was ok cause she fell asleep in the car and so i wasn't going to need time to feed her. john was a little later getting to my parents' also. he came in to peek at her while she was sleeping. nothing exciting.
so we didn't go out for free rita's.  instead we went to the hockey game. it just so happened that john hadn't planned anyone to go with him, so it worked out that it was our date. it was my first hockey game and time being in the consol energy center. we signed up to be designated driver's and got free small drinks. the game was alright. the pens at least won, but it wasn't highly suspenseful. there was a hat trick, though. i think it may have been better had i actually followed some of the games this year. since having little honey i haven't really gone out to watch any of the games so i don't really know much about the team this year. i also don't listen to the radio or read/watch the news or anything. as always, it was a splendid night with john. i'm not sure there was anything particularly funny that happened though. we kinda just chatted while watching the game. maybe we're getting too old to be silly. eek!
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| i haven't updated much about camille. i suppose things haven't really been changing much. i guess the biggest change is that she rolls over much better now. for the longest time she was just craning her neck around as far as she could but not actually rolling over. i kept pushing her over trying to get her to do it on her own, but i feel like it took her a month. now i usually find her on her stomach when i get her in the morning. she doesn't seem to like to roll on to her back again, but she can. she is also pushing her butt up in the air and lifting her head and shoulders decently. so crawling should be on its way.
solid foods has also been the same. we just give her half a jar in the evening. she sometimes does a little shiver with the first bite. she's had sweet potatoes, pears, peas, apples, peaches, and carrots. she seemed to eat all of them the same. she is also showing a lot of interest in what is going on around her. she does seem to watch when we eat and if we get things close to her she will grab at them. she especially likes rootbeer bottles. i love when her little tongue comes out to lick something. her interest is more annoying when breastfeeding cause if tom comes in the room she just turns her head to watch him. when we got out shopping, though, she is generally content just watching things. only if she's tired she'll fuss a few minutes or if she's hungry, but we're usually pretty good with our timing.
she's also had a couple of colds. we got her a humidifier, though, so it helps her sleep through the night. she's been sleeping pretty well. probably at least 5 nights a week she'll be asleep by 10 and fine until i feel like getting her after 8. sometimes when we go out it messes with her schedule and she doesn't go to sleep as well. like we might put her down at 9:30, but she'll wake up screaming an hour later. she's usually pretty good about staying asleep once tom and i decide to go to bed, so it's not too bad having to deal with her. or sometimes she might wake up at 4 or 6 and want to eat. i think it might have to do with her being congested and not always eating as much. i would say she's generally sleeping through the night, though.
she's also still giant. yesterday i asked lia if she wanted to hold the baby and i was surprised she actually said ok. so i helped her climb up on the couch and then put camille on her lap. she very nicely put her arms around her waist. but it was so funny cause camille seemed about just as big as her even though they're 20 months apart. lia does seem kinda little for her age. it was also funny cause camille turned around and briefly sucked lia's face. that was when lia got tired of holding her.
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| we started solids on saturday. the doctor said we didn't have to start with rice cereal and could just go right into whatever we wanted. just as long as we stay with one food a week to make sure that she's not allergic. as far as i know things went well. we bought peas, pears, and sweet potatoes. i picked sweet potatoes to start because it seemed like it could be in the middle flavorwise. the food went in and didn't really come back out too much. of course she was a mess, but overall willing to eat and would open her mouth decently to get the food in. yesterday she started trying to suck on her hand while eating and made a bit more of a mess, but still did fine eating overall. today tom decided to hold her arm down and she did much better. besides the couple of exhales that splattered, we did really well keeping the mess minimally on her face and bib. i guess solid foods isn't a nightmare, so she must be doing well with them. i actually do look forward to feeding her each day.
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