I cannot believe it's been 3 weeks since I've written about my darling daughter.... there is so much to tell and so much has happened in the last few weeks. I will do separate short posts on the highlights. Suffice it to say that we have been without Internet (can you believe that?) while we were on vacation and off of teaching. That was almost 2 weeks of the time.
Sunday was the 6 month birthday of Hadarya. It is almost incomprehensible that we've been blessed with this beauty in our lives for a 1/2 of a year. She is such a big girl now compared to then... we remembered her BIRTH day all day long and silently prayed for her birth mom's health, happiness, and strength. She gave us an amazing gift that we will forever be grateful for.
Hadarya Tali weighed 17 lbs. 12 oz on Monday at her appointment. She was 25 1/2 inches tall. She has the rolls on her legs and arms to prove that she loves to eat and does not miss a meal! She enjoys green beans, peas, peas with brown rice are a favorite, winter squash, and carrots. We are going to venture into sweet potatoes and butternut squash later this week and next. She does not refuse the rice cereal but loves the oatmeal more for breakfast.
Her favorite toys are her fingers that feel so yummy on her two teeth just bursting to break through her upper gums on the side. She is going to be a fang girl! She also LOVES her jumperoo (thank you JEFF!) and can bounce bounce bounce for a long long long time. If she is on your lap, she likes to pretend that you are the jumperoo and she jumps expecting you to lift her like the toy. She also loves anything that fits into her mouth...Mr. Giraffe (thank you Tamar, Joel, and Aidin!) has been a long time favorite that she can hug and chew. She also has begun to love Eli the Elephant because its trunk fits nicely into her mouth. Her other favorite toy are some soft, edible like keys on rings (Yeah, Eddie, Jeanne and Jacob!).
She has rolled over from her back to her tummy 4 times and that is enough for her. She showed us she can do it and she is done. She does play on her tummy and has begun scooting backwards. She sits unassisted but will fall backwards if she looks up at you too high! She loves her "older" toys from this new perspective. She is also able to sit in a "big"girl stroller and loves looking out at the world.
Hadarya is curious, interested in people, and very social. She has begun to exhibit a little bit of being left behind anxiety when she is separated from Ema and Aba. We are hoping that she will be able to deal with that better and better!
She continues to sleep through the night, but has begun to wake up around 4 AM and would prefer to snuggle with us instead of staying her own bed! But it's hard to complain when she goes to bed between 7 and 7:30 every night. Nine uninterrupted hours of sleep is pretty good! The napping patterns are not so consistent between all the different people who take care of her during the week. We hope that things will settle in more this week with us back at work.
No matter what...our lives are forever touched by this darling who has settled deep in our hearts.
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