my own perspective

our little girl turned 8 month old today, how time flies.

look at her she’s standing on her own and pretty soon she’ll be walking. i’m so excited to see that. i guess she’ll be walking first before she can crawl. i know mike is getting anxious for her to walk. he can’t wait to bring her to the tennis court and teach her how to play tennis.

she’s eating good, she’s drinking 4 oz of water everyday or more.

she recently develop this high pitch sound and it amuses her. and every time i would sing-a-long with her baby signing cd she would sing as well, of course all of it is just baby talk. but i love that she sing a long with me.

yes mackennzie said her first word, i know it still those accidental words but a word is a word right.

i was chatting with my bestfriend last wednesday while breasfeeding my little one. and one of the word my bestfriend said was “hi” (march 18′09 @ 632pm) then i said it out loud. the next thing i knew is mackennzie saying it back. it was as clear as crystal. i was ecstatic!… our baby said her first word. mike and i look at each other and i even asked him if he heard it. he said yes and then he said its just accidental she will do that once in awhile. accidental or not i was so happy i can’t even describe it.

here is a recent picture of my two babies.

i just would like to congratulate my sister for passing the philippine board exam…

yehey may doctor na kami!

mack had her 6 month check-up and shots today.

she’s 18lbs 2oz, 26 1/2 inches yehey!

today our little girl is 6 month old. wow, how time flies when you are tired and exhausted hehe. but seriously speaking, she gives us with so much joy that being tired and exhausted is just second nature.

so many milestone happen before she turned 6 month namely:

-she can turn her head from side to side (happened before she turn 2 month, i forgot to blog about that)

-she can touch her toes before she turned 5 month old. before it was just her thigh and then her knees.

-she can put her toes in her mouth, this happen last jan 19.

-she can pull her legs up without any effort, i notice this last jan 20.

-she can pull her self in an upright sitting while on the bouncer (which scared me and now i can’t leave her alone while she watch her dvd).

-she’s able to hold her pacifier and put it in her mouth.

-she’s able to hold her teether and put it in her mouth.

-she’s able hold an empty water bottle.

-she looks at me or mike when we say her name.

-she can sit unsupported as you can see on the pictures below (i was so proud of her, we’ve been practicing). i notice she can sit by herself when she was 4months and 2weeks.

-she can roll over this happen last jan 20 @ 543 pm (we just notice that was going to roll over both mike and i was so quite and when she finally did, i was clapping my hands so hard. i was wondering when will she roll over by herself and all of a sudden she did. she was just taking her sweet time).

there are so many milestone that happen that i lost track of. i will try to blog about her milestone more.

this morning since she is now 6 mo old. i finally gave her some solid food. i started her with a rice cereals with breastmilk. i figure she will be more comfortable eating the rice cereals if i made it more soupy than solid. and i was right, she was sipping it like a milk. she finish the 1 tbsp of rice cereals, but some of it went to her bib than her mouth. but all in all her first time eating solid food was a success. she never turn her head away from the spoon and most of the time she would open her mouth.

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here is a video of mackennzie.

http://bebelim.multiply.com/video/item/15

From our family to yours…

Merry Christmas and a blessed New Year!

yesterday we had mack’s second dose of immunization. at first she was all smile and even laughing with her dad. but once her doctor started her physical exam she started to fuzz and even cried. i think she knew what’s coming next. she got her usual three injection, i felt so bad. tears running down her cheeks. all i can do is put my hand on her chest and put my cheek on her forehead. after her injections i picked her up to calm her, as she watch the nurses put away the needle, her daddy told mack to memorize their faces for the next time. and as if she understood her dad she never took her eyes off both nurses.

on our way home she fell asleep. it helps that we gave her tylenol before the shots and that it was her nap time too.

before the shots they took her weight and length, drum roll please!!!… she is 17lbs 2oz and 25 1/2 inches at 4months and 3weeks.

this picture was taken (saturday oct 25) after the nurse took her weight and height and before her vaccination. happy pa sya nyan.

btw, shes 14lbs 8oz and 24 inches na. her pedia said shes a good eater. her weight is in the 93 or 95 percentile (i forgot basta 90s) and her height is in the 75 percentile. 

im happy that our baby is healthy, i’m so glad i decided to stick it out with my breastfeeding. there were times it got to a point i was so frustrated but i was adamant that i will breastfeed her no matter how painful or hard it may take me i will do it. and it helps that i had a lot and i mean a lot of encouragement from friends and families. and now our baby is a picture of health as you can see.

the night before her shots mike was so anxious he bought her some baby tylenol. he told me we should give it to her before and after her shots and three more time every 4 hours per advise of his friend and the pharmacist (ganyan ka-concern ang daddy even the pharmacist kinausap pa).

when the nurses was giving mack her shots, i was holding her arms down and trying to sooth her and can you guess where her daddy is.. at the back corner of the room. mas nasasaktan ang daddy nya to see her crying in pain. she got a total of 3 injections (2 on her R thigh and 1 on her L) one of the injection is a combination of 3 vaccinations. after i picked her up and try to pacify her and after a few seconds she fell asleep. it was also time for her nap, so i put her in her car seat and of we go to babies r us to buy her costume for halloween.

her reaction to the shots was last sunday, slight increase in her temp so we give her one dose of tylenol and after an hour her temp went down.

shes more active now shes learning to grasp for things. she puts her left hand on my mouth as if trying to stop me from talking. last friday she started to laugh as in really laughing at mike. so i asked mike to take a video of her while he makes her laugh. and when i try to looked for that video wala di nya na-record.. sayang first time pa nman nya.

i know some of my friends who just had a baby the same time we had mack will be envious once i told them that for a week now mackennzie is sleeping through the night. from the start after she gain her birth weight (she was 2 week old) and they told me i don’t need to wake her up at night to feed her, mack can sleep at night for 4 to 6 hours. then eventually it went to 5 to 8 hours some times even 9 hours as i said before. and now she sleeps through the night, it started 5 days before she turn 3 month. mike is in heaven!

this will be our new cleaning product at home.

i have always been sensitive to smell, i can smell a cigarette smoke from a mile, so no wonder when i got pregnant it heightened my sense of smell. i was planning to buy this product even before i got pregnant but never get to it. now that mack is here we have to be careful on what we use in our house. and this product have an all natural ingredient which is biodegradable and most important for me at least it does not smell yahoo!

mike ordered the starter kit yesterday and i can’t wait to use them all.

here’s a link to mack’s video, she’s trying to reach for her toy. ang cute kaya i took a video.

http://bebelim.multiply.com/video/item/2

its official our little girl’s nickname is “mack”, that’s what mike said while we were giving her a bath this afternoon.

of course not me, but i dear friend of mine. they were trying to have a baby when they went here for mackennzie’s baptism. and she was so disappointed last month when she got her period. so i told her a trick that my sister-in-law told me they did. and i think it worked coz now she’s pregnant.

congratulations Irene!!!

waking up every morning is so much better specially if the first thing you would see is you’re baby smiling back at you. she response to me more and more these days with her facial expressions. every time i would asked or talked to her it is as if shes really talking back and she understood what i was saying. her vocabulary is not just ‘oh’ and ‘ahh‘ anymore there’s ‘tsk’, ‘ugh’, ‘hmm‘ and many more. she loves our signing time every morning, she would sing with me, opening her mouth and rolling her tongue out as if trying to say the words.

motherhood can be a challenge and there are times you are so tired by the end of the day. but one look at her face and you see that adorable innocent smile it gives you energy to do things you thought you were so tired to do in the first place.

ever since we start giving mack/kenzie (still debating which of the two should we use for her nickname) her bath she has not like it one bit. she would cry her lung out of disapproval. but for two weeks now she cries less and less. i thinking shes starting to like it hay salamat. now if only she would let me wash her hair without the tears hmm.. maybe in the coming weeks.

shes 14 lbs na hay ang bilis!

mackennzie discovered that not only she can suck her left thenar but she discovered her fingers and that she can put it in her mouth. and while she sucking her left hand her right is busy pulling, tagging, twirling the hair at the back of her head. and speaking of her head she can hold it up for at least 20 to 30 second while on tummy time, and she can do 3 or 4 push up too. hay shes growing up fast.

we went to the lactation ed today and she weigh 13lbs 5oz, at 1 day shy of her 2 month birthday. there was this one baby there she’s 4 month and she weigh 13lbs 4oz. i’m so proud of our little girl to think that the only food shes eating is my breastmilk.

and with regards to her sleeping habit at night we talk to the consultant and she said it was just fine. let her sleep as long as she can at night, because she will make up whatever she needs during the day eating i mean. last week she had two nights of those 9 hours straight sleep that was heaven for us. hopefully and i pray she will continue with this and maybe add a few more nights hehe… wishful thinking!

for two nights in a row mackennzie’s been sleeping for more than 8 hours and she’s just 8 weeks. mike was a little worried last night she was sleeping na for 9 hours and haven’t eaten for 12 hour. so he woke her up.

we had mackennzie’s baptism last Sept. 6 saturday. here are some pics we would like to share.

mackennzie’s 12lbs 1oz today. yon lang just an update.

sorry no picture!

meron nman kaming kuha last aug 26 yon nga lang no time to download them yet. now i understand why my friends who are first time mom have no time to take and download pictures of their kids. as i write this post mackennzie is sleeping on top of my chest. she just had a major vomit spell this morning and i read somewhere that putting her on her stomach will help. this is the third time she vomited big time, my theory is that she inherit my acid reflux. burping her as often as possible during feeding does help.

next weekend sept. 6 will be mackennzie’s baptism, and we’re busy (actually si mike lang since i’m still having some issue with my episiotomy) preparing the house for our out of state visitors.