Lilly doings in April

Passover - She has tried and liked pieces of matzah. She's not getting a whole lot, don't want to actively make her constipated but she did enjoy the cracker-ness of her pieces (small ones for those wanting to visualize). We went to Rabbi Linden's house for the 1st night sedar. And we actually showed up 30 minutes early, instead of 30 minutes late! But those 30 minutes would come back to bite us. I bathed her before leaving our house and put her in her pjs. She also ate her dinner so all she needed before going to bed was her bottle. Once we got the rabbi's house, it was 7, around her bedtime, so we gave her the bottle, she took it, and then the other guests started showing up. So Lilly was all into them. As soon as the rabbi and his wife called for us to be seated Mark took Lilly upstairs to the Pack and Play, the rabbi had put out. But boy was she not HAPPY to be put down. She started crying. And continued for ten minutes until I went in to check on her. She stopped when I picked her up. I rocked her, walked around the room, even turned on the radio, though I wasn't supposed to as their house was already ready for Shabbat (oops). But when I put her back down, she started wailing again. So after ten minutes and several prayers later, Mark went back upstairs. He was there awhile, so I brought the diaper bag with me, and she had still be crying and didn't look like she was going to go to sleep anytime soon. So I took her home. She was fine again, once I got her into the car. Must have been the new people, new sleeping environment, and she dozed in the car, took us about 20 minutes to get home from Metairie. And she was fine when I put her in her crib at home. I got home around 9. The sedar lasted until 11:30PM, so it was probably a good call on our part to leave. Mark got a ride home and got back around midnight.

JCC - She's growing more comfortable at the JCC babysitting. She willingly goes to Cory in the mornings. She enjoys the sight of the other kids, the usual ones who come during our hour. I've started going five days a week, to build it into her routine. Now instead of three, T, W, and F, she now gets M and Th. She interacts well with Cory, she loves shaking her head at her. And Cory shakes back. And at times she even smiles for the front desk receptionists. The two always coo over her, but she has yet to publicly display affection back, except for some small smiles. It's all reserved for Cory and the other kids in babysitting!

Highchair - While she has a love/hate relationship with the home highchair, she has become much more comfortable sitting in highchairs at restaurants. She now usually willingly sits in the chair, provided we keep her occupied with either her dog blanket, plastic pink purse, plastic set of keys, Mum-Mums, or other baby food. We went to dinner with friends a couple Saturdays ago, and she was just captivated by Jacob, their six-year old. He's got two younger sisters, so he's great with babies. He kept entertaining her. Even offered her a french fry. Or part of his cupcake, we politely declined on both parts. But he made funny faces at her. He talked to her. And he even retrieved items for her, stuff she would throw to the ground, he got. And we took her our to eat with us, to Crepe Nanou, and while we sat outside, it was a good call, as she kept talking and screeching, she sat in the highchair the whole time! I fed her the soft parts of French bread, a definite like, and my sauteed carrots and green beans, another like. She's captivated by other kids, so Saturday night we went out to eat with my parents ( we were all in Dallas), and sat outside, and there were 5 girls, probably ranging from 1 1/2 to 13. And Lilly could not take her eyes off them. They were running around, singing, eating, and Lilly was just in people watching heaven. She gladly stayed in the highchair, was fed a Mum-mum, parts of a roll, and a carrot. She was happy. With this observation mode, she's also quite ok, for the most part, to sit in the grocery cart seat. At least sitting she's on the move and up high and able to observe the aisles and comings and goings of people.

Crawling - still going backwards. Can rock back and forth, and becomes quite frustrated that she's can't get that forward momentum.

Talking/Babbling - With agua and go, we've added mama, gaga, and a 'K' sound. Still keep practicing dada with her but so far no go.