Roxy Says

While I was nursing Gemma:

Me: Roxy, ssshhhhhhhh.

Roxy: I AM sshhuushing.

I was singing along to the Bruno Mars song "Marry You": Hey baby, I think I want to marry you.

Roxy (very serious): No. You don't marry babies.

Roxy signs "Tuesday" by signing #2 then moving it in a circle. Adorbs.

Roxy while pulling out the practice clock (every time): What day is it?

In a sing-song voice: The bunny clock's awake. The bunny clock's awake. (She does this with Pippa almost every morning and quiet time when the bunny clock wakes. They've been doing this for almost a year now.)

With Roxy they do this all the time in both roles from Mary Poppins

Roxy: "Jane and Michael... sunglasses (or other random object)."

Pippa: NO silly, Jane and Michael BANKS!"

Roxy pronounces Portuguese like "Pork A Jeez." She and Pippa often pretend to talk in French, Spanish, German, and Pork A Jeez. 

Gemma at 7 months

Gemma at 7 months

Here's what our sweet Gemma was up to between her six and seven month birthdays

• Still the biggest hair puller.
• Still really loves the stroller. She's never cried in there and has even fallen asleep a few times in there.
• Three times we've put Gemma in the crib awake and happy (after a period of screaming sleeping waking eating) and she falls asleep on her own happily. If only we could get her happy in the crib all the time.
• Got chicken pox but wasn't too upset about it. More on this later.
• Red eyebrows and temples when crying
• Cloth bibs won't stay in front. They move to the back and look like capes.
• Big loud gasp - she likes to do this while nursing.
• Still not a happy nurser.
• Excema on her face. I thought it was drool rash from the increased drooling from two teeth coming in, but it hasn't gone away.
• I started doing 3 weeks of dairy free to see if that helped her excema.
• Little lady like sneezes.
• LOVE her chubby little hand / wrist / arm resting on me while I nurse her.
• Great at sitting up alone.
• Still really into biting my chin.
• Back to napping in the carrier (for a while she wouldn't nap there, only in the rocking chair).
• Started legit sleep training.
• Buries her head in my shoulder with strangers talking to her (or me).
• Toward the end of six months Gemma rolls from back to front.
• Only nurses well at home in the rocking chair with the boppys - I use two one upside down and the other stacked on top of it right side up. (Two stacked this way is INCREDIBLY helpful for a newborn and it's just easier for me / my arms to keep doing it this way.)
• Gemma really likes to nurse when it's just me and her (no sisters or dad around). It's just that this doesn't happen very often!
• For a long time (since around 3 months?) Gemma does a big sigh when she's almost totally asleep. 

Gemma at Six Months

Gemma on her six month birthday.

Here's what Gemma was up to between her five and six month birthdays:

• Likes to suck / chew on her bottom lip
• Roxy still says "Binn wants you" or "Binn wants to eat" when Gemma is crying.
• Roxy says "Binn drinks MILK!" very loud and insistently when we pretend to offer her food. (I think it's sunk in that the big girls should never give her food.)
• Grabs her toes when lying on her back
• Has chin dimples (two of them!) when she smiles big. We'll see if they stick around as she grows...
• Loves music and dancing when she's fussy - dancing music with a good beat, not relaxing music.
• First tooth poked through January 31 - it was the bottom center left
• Likes to nom on my chin
• Is a HUGE hair puller - my hair and especially Pippa and Roxy's hair.
• Start of sleep training - aka sleep without a swaddle
• Drool rash on chin and right cheek
• Second tooth on bottom - Feb 6
• Gemma is now too big to bathe in the bathroom sink
• Spits up a lot less
• Usually three naps a day (I still have to hold her for all of them)
• Loves the doorway jumper
• Not a happy nurser - lots of screaming then a bit of eating then a bit of screaming then a bit of eating.