Happy Thanksgiving

Braelyn says "Go Huskers!" while watching the Penn State game.

Happy Thanksgiving from the Hagge family!

We will be going to California for a teacher's conference this coming week and will be back in time to make a turkey and celebrate Thanksgiving (and watch Husker football!)

Here's a picture of the new talent Braelyn has:  sleeping while sitting up.  She's gotten really good at sitting up, obviously. :)  This was at Autumn's house.

Braelyn is also eating some solids.  She does actually eat them too...she eats applesauce and sweet potatoes.  She does NOT like avocado or rice cereal, though if you mix rice cereal with enough applesauce, she might eat it. :)  I want to try bananas again and then carrots and green beans.

Today the cat has decided that she really likes Braelyn's room.  She has been known to go in there and sleep in the crib (before we moved Braelyn in) and in the middle of the night she might visit when I'm in there.  But today I found her in there twice when we went in to change diapers or play.

I think she might want a diaper?  The second time she was on the rocking chair.

7 months!

I weighed Braelyn this morning and by our scale she's 17 lbs 3 oz.  I don't know how that would translate to the doctor's scale... :)  We are having massive problems sleeping at our house lately.  Braelyn has some congestion/cold stuff going on, but the sleep problems predate that.  Needless to say, I'm exhausted and I have a cold.  I did get 2.5 hours of uninterrupted sleep last night.  I'm trying a few things because apparently hoping she'll grow out of it is not working. :)  I am very much looking forward to Thanksgiving break next week, though I wish we'd be able to just stay home all week instead of going to the conference in CA and messing with her sleep more!  Yesterday she fell asleep at Autumn's while she was sitting up.  Oh well.  At least she actually got some sleep which is better than I can do.

Happy Halloween/Reformation Day!

Well, Braelyn's first Halloween was uneventful...we didn't go trick-or-treating because, well, let's face it, she wouldn't be eating the candy anyway.  The whole reason we don't give out candy to our neighborhood kids was that we were fed up with the obviously too old kids that went around, and we'd basically be doing the same thing, using the baby as an excuse to get candy! :)  We did dress her up to go to Autumn's that day.  My mom made the hat.

 We tried to take some pictures outside with the pumpkins.

 Both of them were looking at Daddy...he had a treat for Hunter.

 Howie's turn!

 Everybody's dressed up for Halloween!  Except Hunter.  Howie hates that costume. :)  That's why we put it on him.

Nate's parents also sent us a Snow White costume in which she looked very cute as a bald Snow White.  We have pictures of that too, but they are on a different memory card and I'm too lazy to go and get it. :)  Maybe I'll have to post pictures of that later.

Food update:  We've tried rice cereal, sweet potatoes, bananas, and avocado.  The most she's eaten of any of them has been sweet potato and probably only a spoonful total.  We tried putting mashed banana on her tray and just letting her try and feed herself and turns out she likes that quite a bit, even licked the tray!  It's messy though, and I don't know how much she actually ate of it.  We've also given her a slice of apple to gum and I want to try applesauce soon.  Hopefully some day she'll start actually eating a little more of things.

She can also sit up really well on her own now.  She rarely falls over and she tries to sit up from a laying down position...that doesn't work too well yet.  We went to a restaurant tonight and she could actually sit in the high chair.

Howie has really warmed up to Braelyn.  He likes to give her kisses, which we don't like so much, and he definitely doesn't mind cuddling up with her and me since it's now colder outside.  Hunter is fine, he's just annoying as ever.  He likes to sniff her and she's started kicking him when he does that, which he now thinks is a game and that she's playing with him.  He has learned not to let her get a hold of his ears!

We will hope Braelyn sleeps better tonight...last night she woke up every 40 minutes until I finally just slept in her room in the recliner.  I hope that doesn't happen tonight...not sure my neck will allow me to move tomorrow if I have to do that again!