Halloween!

Ceci had a great first Halloween!

Not so sure what it's all about yet...

6 Months!

Our little Ceci is celebrating her first half birthday!  My how time flies!

6 months old!

Who me?  

No way!

I can't believe how much she's grown in such a short amount of time!

It's been such a crazy, surreal, wonderful, terrifying, challenging, absolutely amazing 26 weeks. We're so lucky to have such a special little girl in our lives!

At 6 months, Ceci is...

Starting Solid Foods!

I LOVE Food!

We're trying something called Baby Led Weaning ( at least that's what it's called here in the UK, sometimes it's called Baby Led Solids in the US, though I'm not sure it's very popular in America yet - I hadn't heard of it before moving out here). Basically, you have the baby feed themselves real food from the beginning - no baby cereal, and no baby food or homemade purees. It's grown very popular over here and is recommended as an option to be used instead of or alongside of baby food/cereal/purees by the NHS. They recommend you start at 6 months or when certain milestones are met. We started giving Ceci solid foods just after 5.5 months, as she was chomping at the bit (literally) to get her hands on our food, and she ticked all the developmental boxes.

An Adventure to the UK

Ceci had her first airplane adventure, and visited her third country - not too shabby for a five month old.      

5 Months!

Our little princess is 5 whole months old and seems to be learning new things nearly every day!

Ceci at 5 months...

Sleep Update

First off, I just want to thank everyone who reached out to offer encouragement and advice after my last post.  Being away from family with a new baby has definitely been challenging, but it is especially hard when we're feeling overwhelmed and lacking sleep. The support you all provided made me feel a lot less alone and I appreciate it more than I can say!

I am happy to report that the sleep in our house has greatly improved (cue fanfare, followed by much knocking on wood, throwing of salt and finger crossing).  For any of you who are wondering how we did it (and also as a note to myself if I'm ever looking back wondering how we survived), here's what happened.

Crisis of Confidence

We are not sleeping.  And it is not fun.