It’s a Girl, It’s a beautiful girl! I will soon have three beautiful girls in my life. I jokingly told my cuñado that maybe it was time to fill out my NRA application (¡Nunca!).
Now, for the names. So many options. Any suggestions out there?
Category Archives: Baby Red
Siete
What’s the latest?
- She enjoys eating every vegetable and (occasional fruit) we’ve given her. The list now includes cauliflower, sweet potato, avocado, broccoli, green beans, squash, carrots, and lentils (We steam/cook and puree all of her food).
- Everything she grabs wither her little hands go straight to her mouth. She really doesn’t do pinching for items (thumb and index finger) but she has on few occasions pinched my nipple when I am shirtless. Let me tell you, it hurts.
- Sofia has several naps throughout the day and sleeps most of the night. Typically she’ll sleep from 10 p.m. through 7 a.m. She’ll wake up, practice her talking skills, get her bottle and fall back asleep with me until 11 a.m. or so.
- She’s currently working on perfecting her various cries. Right now, the cry that scares us is the hold-your-breath and explode with tears cry. It still needs work because besides tears, nothing audible comes out after she’s holding her breath. This one should be a dandy in public places as she grows older.
- She’s in the 95th percentile in length and consequently is running out of space in her car seat. That means that mum and dad are going to have to drop anywhere from 200 to 300 dollars on a new carseat. We should have purchased the convertible car seat!
- The important things are set as far as her baptism. We’re hoping on baptizing sometime in late August, early September. My mum has been worried about the baby’s horns.
- My favorite is that she now will say “maaa” and “dada.” The little brat will cry (“maaa, mma, mma, maaa”) on occasion when she wakes up and doesn’t see her mum. I’m kidding about the brat part.
Unfortunately, my stay-at-home-dad status is coming quickly to its conclusion. The 2012-2013 school year is just around the corner and then it’ll be back to teaching during the day. It’s a blast taking care of my daughter. I’ll miss it. My mum will be happy to start babysitting her again. Believe or not, she wants me to drop Sofia off at her house even though I am not working right now. She says Sofia is her medicine. That all her ills go away when she’s over there. Eh, I have to agree with her. I most definitely feel the same way.
San Francisco
Back when S.J. was almost two months old, we took her to San Diego to meet up with some awesome people. She did well on the four-hour drive. Since then we’ve been curious whether she’s going to be cool being strapped in her car seat for long distances.
This past weekend we headed off to San Francisco to celebrate our five-year wedding anniversary. Both Sonia and I are in agreement that unless we have to, we don’t want to leave the baby behind for these types of outings (this is the same reason we have not visited the movie theatre in 6 months). Just like with the trip to San Diego, S.J. was great. No issues at all. She’s a really mellow baby. I’d be honest if she wasn’t. San Francisco was great. I really, really love the city.
Wonderful
We’ve reached the halfway mark of year One. Time does not slow down. Everything is happening so quickly. It’s as though someone hit the fast-forward button. Not the full-on fast-forward, but the 1.5X. I’m not being hyperbolic when I say this. Sofia has graduated from lechita and some brown rice cereal here and there, to fruits and veggies! So far we can cross the following off as being S.J. approved: avocados, sweet potato, carrots, and cauliflower (she cheated when she ate banana – I don’t recall who fed her).
Although, she has two visible teeth, she obviously can’t use them to chew. She uses those two, to bite my finger and hurt her mum. Back to the food…we puree her veggies and she scarfs them down no questions asked. Who would have thought…avocado. I can’t stand avocado! Her diaper has gone from being mustard colored to matching the veggies she eats. For example, today’s poop was orange and green! This totally beats the sticky black colored stool she had when he was as newborn (meconium)!
Next: Sippy Cups
Hey, do you like Flock of Seagulls?
Just Soft, Soothing Rain Sounds
The last day of school just had to be eventful. That’s the way it has to be. My principal and I got into it over some issues we’d had this past school year. I thought for sure that he wanted to let bygones be bygones but that cannot be the case when you start a conversation with “You were wrong.” Seriously, dog. How do you expect me to react? I guess my principal’s biggest issue with me is that he doesn’t appreciate it when I question his motives, specifically in situations when he makes me look bad (i.e. lambasting me in an email response – which he Cc’d to the Superintendent and Assistant Superintendent – over paternity leave).
I know well my rights as a tenured public teacher – anywhere else I’d have to take it – and I responded with vocal artillery that left the poor sap blabbering nonsense. You know, it’s not like me to do this. Even if it’s a reasonable reaction. Every time, I feel bad afterwards. I don’t want to show him up while office staff and other teachers listen on, but he left me with no choice. That, and I have a bad “get off my lawn” temper. I’m very mellow most of the time but if I feel that you’re taking advantage of me “se me subio lo rojo.”
Before, I would be fuming for hours. Now, I just look at my baby and it’s all good (phrase made by M.C. Hammer in the 90′s). Look, just look! It’s hilarious!
Five Months
It seems like S.J. was born just yesterday. It’s been five months! She’s five months old! It’s incredible how fast our baby is growing. Initially, our pediatrician told us she was very underweight. We were freaking out the first few weeks. Since that time, S.J. has been rocketing up the percentile growth charts. Believe it or not, it wasn’t that long ago that she was at the bottom of those charts. And now? Now, we can see some baby cellulite.