24 weeks

Not much has changed since last week for Chloe.

The only thing new is that Chloe has started to say "ma ma ma". Phil is trying to teach her to say "da da da", but no luck on that yet. She still loves to scream out "ah" through out the day, now intermixed with "ma"s here and there.

Otherwise, Chloe is still a very happy baby who loves to put everything in her mouth.

Chloe is practicing for the day when she can munch on ribs and corn on the cob.

Chloe is constantly playing with her feet. She loves to put her big toe in her mouth and we are constantly taking it out of her mouth.

She does cry and big tears come out of both her eyes...it makes us feel really bad for her. She doesn't cry that often, but when she does, she really looks sad.

She no longer wanted to stay in her swing while we work out, so the new set up is this playpen next to our treadmill. She plays really well in it, but sometimes she will flop backwards or forward.

Here is the happy Chloe waiting for some solid food. Her favorite right now is sweet potatoes and her least favorite one is bananas.

Here is Chloe helping me with her laundry. Well, it was hard to carry her and carry the laundry basket at the same time, so I put her inside the basket. Who knew that she would like this?

This is the night before we fly out to Florida. Both Chloe and daddy were in their matching Gator outfits.

We are hoping for a safe and easy trip to Florida!

23 weeks old

This week, we successfully started feeding solids to Chloe. So far, Chloe has tried rice cereal, oatmeal, pear and sweet potatoes. It is so cute when she opens her mouth for the food. Right now, Chloe gets two feedings of breastmilk, two feedings of formula, and one feeding of solids. We broke out the highchair to see if she can sit in it, and we couldn't be any happier. She loves to sit in it, even if we are not feeding her anything, she will just sit in it and watch us do our things around the kitchen.

Chloe has also started to say "ah" constantly. She will say it at least 100 times a day.

We signed up to run in a short 5K race called the Cherry Creak Sneak on the first Sunday of May. The weather has been awesome, however, the morning of the race it was in the 30s. We bundled Chloe up and ran it with her in the stroller. She did awesome!

We broke out this inflatable duck tub to get Chloe used to bathing in it, so that we can take it with us to Florida. She didn't love it. She cried soon after being in it, so we had to switch her into her old tub in the middle of her bath. We'll try it again soon...

Here is Chloe strapped into her high chair and eating her oatmeal. She's growing up so fast.

We love this happy baby! Her favorite thing to do these days is tapping on stuff. In this photo, her right hand was tapping the arm rest on the chair.

Here is Chloe just hanging out in her high chair. As long as she has something to chomp on, she's happy.

We finally successfully captured Chloe laughing on video. Enjoy!

22 weeks and 5 months old

Chloe turned 5 months old.

She seems to have all the tell-tale signs of being ready for solids, like having really good head control, sitting on her own, and watching us eat with very interested eyes. We've tried giving her a very runny rice cereal, but so far it hasn't been very successful. The first time, she flat out got really fussy and ended up crying. But, the second time, she took two spoonfuls before getting fussy.

Chloe is now very aware of what's happening around her. She starts crying if we leave her in a room by herself, even if it is just stepping into the kitchen where she can still see us. Is this a normal developmental milestone or is Chloe really spoiled???

She really loves Gator and Ali. She loves to watch them run around the house and she loves to watch them eat their meals.

In two weeks, Chloe will be taking her first airplane trip to Florida. We keep hearing that as long as we feed her at take off and landing, she should be fine. If there is any other advice for us, please send it our way.

Here are some photos from this week.

Sitting by herself at 5 months old. She is a big girl now.

She has so much fun playing in the crib, but still does not want to sleep in it. She cries very sadly if we put her to sleep in her crib.

So, still this is how she sleeps. I am starting to believe that this might be her bed, and her crib might be saved for her future sibling.

We have substituted this lamb stuffed animal (named "Hugsie") for her swaddling blanket and she loves to pet it while falling asleep.

Where is Chloe??? There she is on our bed. Thankfully she doesn't sleep here, just hanging out here for a picture.

Stay tuned for next week's photos!!!

21 Weeks old!

What's new this week?

The big news is that we broke Chloe out of her swaddle! After so many nights of us going into her room to re-swaddle her, we have decided that it is time to move her out of being swaddled. We thought it was going to be a big "crying it out" session, but she fell asleep with no problems. We are still going into her room at night to put her paci back in her mouth, but otherwise she sleeps really well for about 11 hours at night. We are going to wait a little longer before we start weaning her off of her paci. She doesn't use it or need it at any other time except for going to sleep. We also weaned her off of her late night feedings. She now takes a 6oz bottle at 6pm and not another feeding until 6am the next day.

She's also mastered her sitting now, and plays really well sitting on her own. She hasn't rolled over since that one time way back when she was only 12 weeks old. Maybe, she will move on to crawling before rolling over...

She definitely has stranger anxiety. I guess she's had this for almost a month now, but we didn't want to believe it. Chloe has about a foot wide diameter of a personal space, and she does not want any strangers invading that space right now. It takes her a few hours to warm up to a stranger.


Chloe must have grown an inch or so. Her feet are now touching the ground!



This is Chloe really concentrating on whatever she is doing or she might be working on a surprise in her diaper.



Chloe loves to play sitting down now that she can.



Playing in her playpen.



I'm not sure why Chloe is sad. She was smiling just a second ago...

This is how Chloe sleeps now that she is not swaddled. As you can see, she is still occupying the guest bed.

Here is a short clip of Chloe playing with her daddy. We're not sure if she is laughing or crying...

20 weeks old

Wow, time truly flies by quickly. Our little Chloe is growing up so fast.

There hasn't been much change to her schedule except that she's been wanting more than 5oz of breastmilk. We are slowly trying to increase her amount to 6oz, which means she will be getting two feedings of formula. If this trend continues, I think Chloe will be 100% on formula by her 6 month birthday.

Developmentally, she has now learned to sit on her own. We still have to spot her since she will still flop to the sides and backwards, but for the most part she sits really well on her own. When laying on her back, she loves to play with her feet and tug on her socks.

She is still being swaddled to go to sleep. We've tried the sleepsack, but after 30 minutes of her not being able to settle down, we end up swaddling her, and she falls right to sleep. It doesn't look like we'll be breaking the swaddling for awhile.

Chloe is such a sweet, happy baby, that we can get her to smile all the time. Laughing on the other hand, she is very stingy. We are constantly looking for ways to make her laugh. Her favorite right now is when we are going up the stairs. Phil carries her over his shoulder, and I pop up behind them on the way up and she will giggle.

Here are some pictures from this week.

This has become Chloe's signature facial expression.

Here is happy Chloe. We love seeing this smile. Chloe sends a big thank you to Gabby and Fia for these cute overalls.

Chloe tried to stay awake for daddy to come home from work, but ended up falling asleep.

But, in the transition from the baby bjorn to her bed, she woke up. So, we opened up the Easter present from G-pa and G-ma.

We also finally got Chloe's 3 month photos. There were so many to choose from, but we narrowed it down to these three.

As always, thanks for visiting our blog!

19 weeks old!

Now that Chloe is 19 weeks old, her schedule is becoming more and more predictable.

Her schedule kind of looks like this:

6:00 am Wake up and drinks 5oz breastmilk

7:30 to 9am nap

10 am drinks 5oz breastmilk

11am to 12:30 nap

2pm drinks 5oz breastmilk

3pm to 4pm power nap

6pm drinks 5oz breastmilk

7pm down for the night

10pm late night feeding of 6oz formula

We are still sneaking in the late night feeding around 10 or 11pm before we go to bed. Chloe usually doesn't even open her eyes, and just sleep eats and goes right back to bed.

I could be totally over thinking this, but I think Chloe doesn't get enough milk in the 24hr period if we don't give her the late night feeding.

The weather has been very unpredictable lately. It would be really nice and warm one day and then it would snow the very next day. Kind of crazy...

Chloe hanging out with daddy outside on one of the nicer days.

Chloe likes to accompany us to restaurants. She does really well for awhile, and then lets us know that it's time for us to go before we can decide on desserts.

This is her new thing that she does these days. Whenever we are holding her and drink something at the same time, she wants to touch the cup.

It is Chloe's 1st Rockies game day. She woke up really happy.

She loves to look at the camera. What are you doing down there, Chloe?

Chloe took a really good nap and was all ready to go the game, but it started to snow and the game got cancelled. Chloe is still in a good mood though.

Thanks to Susie, we had this nice and warm snowsuit that would have kept Chloe warm during the game.

Phil puts Chloe in the Baby Bjorn when he vacuums the house. Chloe starts kicking her legs when the vacuum turns on and she loves to be part of the cleaning fun.

We still have not successfully captured her laugh in a video, but hopefully soon we can share that with you all. Thanks for visiting!!!

18 Weeks old!

This week, Chloe attended another party. It was our friend, Hanh's baby shower. Chloe must be a party girl in nature, because she does really well in big crowds and loves to watch people. That's until she starts to get tired, and then everything goes downhill. We were able to stay for a couple of hours and even play some games.

One big development this week is that we felt a little bump starting on her lower front edentulous ridge where her first tooth is suppose to come out. We thought she was teething with lots of drooling and chewing on her hand, and now we have a proof! We got her a teether ring and she loves to chew on it.

We are very excited for the start of the baseball season. We share season tickets to the Rockies with a bunch of people and we are excited to take Chloe to her first baseball game on Sunday of opening weekend!

Here are some pictures from this week.

Here is Chloe at the baby shower. She got all dolled up for the event.

This shower was a Co-ed shower and only the boys were able to play this diaper game. There were five diapers with five different melted chocolate candies in it. You were supposed to guess which chocolate candy is in each diaper. It took Phil less than a minute to guess all five and he won! It does pay off to know your sweets, I guess. He got 4 out of the 5 right, but he says technically he had all 5 right. He put down a crunch bar instead of the Hershey's krackle. According to Phil (self proclaimed candy expert) there are no differences. For the prize, he won $15 to McDonald's, which he was very happy with.

The next day Chloe had another party to attend. It was our friend's son, Carter's 1 year birthday party. However, Chloe was too tired from the baby shower, so we decided to not get her off of her schedule again and let her take her normal naps. I had promised to make a monkey shaped cake for his party, so I attended the party on behalf of the Johnson family. The cake turned out better than I thought, but it sort of looks more like a bear than a monkey to me.

Here is Chloe with her teether ring. It is so cute to see her holding it with both hands and munching on it as if it was something really yummy.

Chloe's favorite place to play is this new toy. She loves to pound on the keyboard.

She makes all sorts of noises while playing with it. Phil was able to catch her laughing and smiling on the camera.

Chloe got her first Easter Basket from one of the Orthodontist we refer patients to. Of course, she was very excited to see us come home from work, but she was also excited to see this colorful present.

Next week, we'll post more exciting photos including Chloe's first baseball game photos!!!