Makena Anne: March 2009

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Makena is...

sleeping through the night again, phew!

still army crawling, but can do so while holding something in her hand. talent!

can now drink from a sippy cup successfully. I was wondering if this would ever happen since prior to today she just chewed on the sippy cup and spit out whatever water that was in her mouth. today she drank tons and tons of water and held the cup at the same time.

still only has 2 bottom teeth. all this teething, but no teeth.

alohab @ 9:43 PM
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

The best feeling in the world...

...coming home from a long day of work and walking through the door and having Makena smile the biggest smile in the world upon seeing me, and immediately start to army-crawl her way to me.

alohab @ 8:37 PM
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Monday, March 23, 2009

Sharing

Makena seems to be learning the fine art of sharing. Tonight we were sitting at the table, and I was having her practice picking up "puffs" from my hand to eat. She would take a bite, then put it in her mouth. As she did this, I would over-exaggerate chewing so that she would hopefully mimic me. After a few times, she put the puff to her mouth, and then changed her mind and reached out and put it to my mouth.

At bedtime tonight when I put her down in her crib, I handed her pacifier to her and she took it with a big smile and started to put it to her mouth. I was hanging over her crib saying goodnight, and she smiled and reached out to offer me her pacifier. She is so, so CUTE!

alohab @ 7:44 PM
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Sunday, March 22, 2009

Frozen Bluberries!

I'm not sure the taste was such a success, but the frozen-ness certainly was!

Check out Nanea's blog for her encounter with frozen blueberries.

alohab @ 9:03 PM
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Hi Minnie!

Makena will pretty much let me put anything in her hair/on her head, and not pull it out/off. She is super fun in that sense. I don't know if that she is too young to realize it at this point, but it makes for great pictures! Isn't she sweet??

alohab @ 8:59 PM
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Head Butts

As you can tell, I've been taking a lot of video lately...

alohab @ 10:10 PM
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Monday, March 16, 2009

A beautiful gift

My uber-talented friend Maggie sent this amazing "mobile" for Makena soon after she was born (yes, I know I'm very late in posting photos!!). I say "mobile" in parentheses because this does not even come close to describing what this is. It is so non-kid mobile-y and beautiful, it doesn't seem right to label it as a mobile. But, I can't think of any other word at the moment (lack of sleep with a still non-sleeping Makena!).

She created this from real branches and hand (?) sewn fabric birds. I told her that she needs to sell these, and she'd make a fortune! She contacted me while I was still pregnant to ask me if I had a theme, or color scheme for the new baby's room, so I sent her photos of the crib bedding I had chosen. When I received the gift, the colors of the birds matched the bedding exactly. Amazing!

Maggie is an amazing artist and designer and makes custom stationary for her company, Uncommon Envelope. Also check her out at Etsy. For those of you that have not discovered Etsy, it is a site for people to see their hand-made wares. I love Etsy :)!

alohab @ 9:57 AM
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Saturday, March 14, 2009

Moving and Shaking (& throwing)!

Makena is really moving now! Mostly she likes to chase down Nanea. In the past day or so, she has gotten to the point where she is over the whole army crawl-thing, so will just scream until someone picks her up. I think that she has found this to be quite effective. And this after all my effort to vacuum and scrub down my floors Cinderella-style so she wouldn't be a dirty mess after cruising around. Ah well...

Makena throws pretty well. Actually she can chuck things across the room. This is a little sample of this when she tosses the bag. She has chucked her pacifier that I am constantly sticking into her mouth right out of her crib and across her room.

alohab @ 8:57 PM
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Already learning bad habits...

Poor Nalu already has another little girl who will use him as their preferred seating...

alohab @ 9:55 PM
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

8 months old today

Well, 8 months old and we seem to be moving backwards!

Makena is still a chubby, chubby baby, though is tracking the same as her big sis, just has more chubs. She is a sweet baby, but oh so FUSSY! She likes to have company at all times. The one thing I could rely on is her sleeping from 5:30pm to about 7am. Straight through since 9 weeks old. That is what has saved my sanity since she is not a napper and needs lots of attention.

So, the last couple of weeks, she has been waking up in the middle of the night. Once, and sometimes even twice. I think it started with teething (those pesky top 2 are just taking their time!), and then she had a cold along with everyone else in our house. That coupled with not wanting to have her wake my mom, and even Noa when I knew he had to work, I went against all my rules and went in to nurse her back to quiet/sleep. So, now she's used to it. Mom left yesterday, but my dad arrived last night so I'm in a bit of a dilemma. I think I may have to just make everyone suffer for a day or 2 and offer lots of coffee so I can get her back to schedule. Sleep deprivation is killing me and making me brain-dead.

On a positive note, we have been getting into a better daytime nap routine the last few days, so she naps for about 30 min at 10am, and an hour and a half to 2 hours between 1 and 1:30pm. In spite of my success with "sleep training" Nanea, I have been severely lacking in setting up a day time routine with Makena. And, everyone with kids knows that a sleep deprived child makes them sleep LESS! Go figure.

Makena is just the sweetest, cutest baby. When she's fussing/crying/screaming and you go to get her, she just lights up the room with her smile, and how could you not want to snuggle such an adorable rolly-poly baby :)?

Happy 8-month day Makena!

alohab @ 4:41 PM
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Monday, March 9, 2009

Moving about and army crawling

Makena will be crawling very soon. She can pretty much navigate the entire living room by scooting, and rocking back and forth on her sides. She has ceased rolling to get to her location of choice since she kept banging her head doing that. Of course a mobile baby means having to keep the floors clean. Nalu seems to shed his weight in hair daily, so there is a lot of vacuuming going on in our house. To which Nanea plugs her ears and shouts "too loud, too loud!!!" Mostly because it interrupts whatever show she is trying to watch.

Nanea getting in on the action

alohab @ 10:54 PM
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Lunch at Restaurants

Makena is good at sitting up now, so can sit in a high chair at restaurants now. Good for mommy and Nanea who love to lunch out. She is entertained with a straw for just long enough for me to shovel my food in my mouth.

alohab @ 10:47 PM
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