Eating, Creeping, Babbling, Sleeping

The title says it all. Sophia has had a great couple of weeks as she is almost 7 months now. Her "Aunt" Christa and I made homemade Sophia food a few weeks ago with organic produce from the Farmer's Market. Sophia really yummed it up. The spatula in the picture is layered with carrots. Admittedly not one of her mom's favorite foods but it may make Sophia's top three purees. She has figured out her own way to creep around the house too. Her method is part army crawl, part reach forward and push. Although it may look awkward to the trained eye, it's extremely effective from her point of view. So much so that she can make it from our bedroom to the living room in no time flat. While she is experimenting with ways to get her hips up I have a feeling the traditional crawl is still a few weeks away. She's also starting to babble much more these days too. We heard her this morning babbling to herself in her big girl crib and I can say that she did say "Dada". Now whether she was making the association to call Mike to come fetch her is a whole other matter. The other very exciting thing is that she is now sleeping a good 7 hours at a time. She is consistently going down for bedtime at 7:30 pm and wakes for a early morning (2AM) snack but then goes right back to sleep until 6 am or so! Way to go Sophia!!! Mia and Poppop bought her a pool last weekend. I opted to not share the naked baby pics on the public blog but have some for her album. She had a blast kicking and splashing in the water. Mike and I are hoping the weather clears up this weekend so we can take her to one of the public pools in the area. It's really an excuse for us to hang out in the chlorine as Sophia would do just fine in her 6 inch pool at home. Once a water baby, always a water baby ;)

6 Months- 25 1/8 inches and 15 lb 4 oz

These past two weeks have been full of exciting things for Sophia. She visited Atlantic City for the first time and dipped her toes in the ocean, participated in her first costume party as Baby Lindberg, learned how to creep from the dining room to the kitchen, and survived her first week of day care. I think she did better than I did at the last one. She seemed to make friends easily and is eagerly watching what the older infants are doing.


Sophia in her itsy, bitsy, teeny, weeny, pink polka dot bikini!


The Annual 4th of July Costume Party in Ventnor, NJ
Theme "The 1920's"
Charles, Anne and Baby Lindberg
(Mia and Poppop as Annie Oakely and The Great Gatsby in the background)

Happy Father's Day!!!

Look at me! I can sit by myself!




I love razzing and planting big kisses!!


Lunch with Geri, Vera, Antonio, and Grandma in Richmond. Yum!

Thanks for taking care of me this week Grandma!

Sophia: 4-5 months

Soon after Memorial Day weekend, Sophia learned how to roll over from her back to her tummy. No surprise it’s one of her favorite things to do these days. Thankfully she’s getting more familiar with tummy time so she can flip over and entertain herself for a good while. Just the other day, Mia realized Sophia could sit unassisted for ~10 seconds at a time. This is a big milestone as she needs to be able to sit unassisted to be ready for the older infant room at daycare in mid July. I started back at work part-time 2 weeks ago. Rin and Edward came down to visit and help take care of Sophia for a Friday when I busy seeing patients and getting reoriented to the world of genetics. Mia and Poppop came down last week. This was big for us as Mike and I were able to go on our first date since Sophia’s arrival. We highly recommend “Hangover”! Grandma Lipinski arrives tomorrow for a week of Sophia care so hopefully this means more dates for us. The other exciting news to share is that Sophia tried her first “solids”. The rice cereal and breast milk combo is hardly a solid, but it’s a great place to start! We’re off to NJ for a week at the end of June to spend time in Chesterfield and Atlantic City. We’ll see how Sophia likes the Jersey Shore!!

California May 2009- 4 1/2 months

Great Grandma (Sophia Lipinski)



"Happy Baby"






Grandma Lipinski, Great Grandma Lipinski, Aunt Martha, Shawn, and Sophia



Great Grandpa Lipinski, Grandpa Lipinski, and those listed in above photo

Sophia is now at four and a half months! We can hardly believe it. As you can see from the many photos, we just returned from a fantastic trip to California. It was a big trip and Sophia got to fly on her first plane, meet her west coast family including her namesake (great grandma Sophia), travel to Tahoe and visit San Francisco. She seemed to enjoy dipping her toes into chilly Lake Tahoe and was excited to cross the Golden Gate Bridge. Mike was of course pleased to see Sophia take a liking to California. She is beginning to be interested in objects now and is actively reaching for toys. Two weeks ago she figured out how to “thunder clap”. This is essentially when she is lying on her back and simultaneously brings both of her hands above her to reach for a dangling object or toy. She wasn’t too coordinated in doing this until just recently. Now she has her thunder clapping down! Just last week she became interested in those objects that mommy and daddy put to their mouths. She is particularly fond of shiny cylindrical objects with the words “Diet Coke” running on the side. She is of course, her daddy’s little girl. Solid foods here we come! While on the trip, she found her toes and now enjoys doing “Happy Baby” all the time. (Happy Baby is the yoga position where you grab your toes while lying on your back. See photo) We're waiting for the day for her to roll over. It is yet to be determined if she will do front-to-back or back-to-front first. When doing tummy time, she has figured out that if she scrunches her legs up to her chest she can inch her way closer to a toy. Mike has appropriately named this move "the inchworm". She is certainly giggling now too. She squeals in delight when we gently bounce her back and forth on the bed. Her hair is starting to come in on the top- looks like she may be a blond, perhaps even a strawberry blond… we’ll see.



Exploring the Diet Coke can



Uncle Jeff



Grandpa Lipinski



Uncle Dave



Lunch in Sausalito



Emerald Bay on South Lake Tahoe



Chilly water of Lake Tahoe



Lake Tahoe

New Activities!

Sophia and I were happy to return home to Dada and Leland after our 10 day stay with Mia and Poppop in NJ. During the time up there, Sophia started batting at her hanging toys- there's still debate on whether it was intentional or not but at least she seemed to start getting the idea of cause and effect. She's also a bit more predictable with somewhat of a schedule. Her personality is starting to come through... We thought it was therefore time for her to try out her exersaucer and her big girl stroller, the Bob! She seems to love both new activities!

Easter Sunday and extras

Mike, Sophia, Leland and I had a great Easter weekend in NJ. We had a lovely Easter lunch with friends and family on Sunday. We had many hands to help hold and play with Sophia.Sophia is wearing her first dress/bloomer/tights combo in some of the pics. Luckily Aunt Rinnie was there to help us put it on her. Thanks Rin! We didn not have an egg hunt this year but I'm sure we'll have one next year. We had the traditional egg dying and cracking but she didn't quite grasp the concept.
Sophia is about 13 weeks now and has certainly discovered that she can put her hands in her mouth! She's just starting to grasp the idea that she can hold things in her hands as well. Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend. Enjoy the blog!