Chillin in Curacao

Taking a break in the hotel room. Sona (and all of us) are covered in mosquito bites!

Sona likes vacation too

Sona is enjoying Bonaire like the rest of us!

Sucking random objects and moving simultaneously

Playing together...for now

Playing and waiting for papa to come home, so we can eat cake! :)

A favorite thing: sucking on socks

Sona stands (with help from the couch)!

8 months

Just posting a photo from over a week ago. At 8 months now, Sona is trying to stand all the time now and was successful standing by holding onto the couch once (today). She is an eager person, that's for sure!

Cute little girl playing

Mama is away, but I keep busy and happy playing these toys. Look at me!

Not interested

First time on the swing

Playing with Nijntje

In the latest news, Sona had her first stomach bug, but recovered pretty quickly (within a day and a half), and has started to attempt clapping.

Sona is crawling!

Well, well....mama goes away for 2 nights and Sona gets her 2nd tooth and is crawling.  She is still in the early stages of crawling, but she just transitioned to the 'normal' way of crawling (from pulling herself commando style on the floor and a variety of other styles) over this past weekend!  Go, Sona!  7 months and 1 week old!  She is also doing a funny almost full downward facing dog yoga position sometimes. Here is a video from today (crawling really starts around the middle of the video)!

Happy 7 months to Sona!

Today marks Sona's 7th month of life!  As mentioned in the previous post, she is sitting on her own and making ridiculous efforts to crawl.  And, today, we felt that her first tooth has come through the gums! A lot is happening for her, to say the least.  Here are some cute photos to mark this 7th month.

Sitting on own and almost crawling!

Sona is a week shy of being 7 months old. She can now pull herself up into a sitting position and, as you can see below, she is on her to way to crawling soon.  I guess that may happen in the next month?!  Her first tooth is also almost coming in...one tip is barely through.  She is still a very smiley and joyous baby, but some nights have  been difficult recently! Must be all of the changes she's experiencing, right?

Stuck!

Sona has started squirming around and she often gets herself stuck under the couch from scooting backwards too much ;-)

Think she's happy?

Eating/sucking on bread

Sona's 6-month check-up

No photos, just measurements.

At her 6-month check-up, Sona is:  7.83 kilos (17.26 lbs) and 70.5 cm (27.75 in)

All is going well with her and she also had her first few practice hours at the daycare today!  Drinking from the bottle is still proving challenging, but she is getting better.....

50 things

Our little girl is already 6 months; she is a very active, smiley baby. She is growing really fast on Mommy's rocket fuel. (that will soon end little cutie ;-).

To mark Sona's 6th month, and as we did with Ian (http://ianmulder.blogspot.nl/2011/05/6-month-mark-50-random-things-i-can-do.html), here are 50 random things Sona can do/has done so far, according to Mama and Papa. See below.

1. Roll and roll and roll over until I get stuck under the couch or am a few feet away from the original spot

2. Make hi-pitch shrieking noises when stuck (like the shrieking eels on The Princess Bride)

3. Reject the bottle; the most I drank from a bottle at one time so far is 80ml; the rest has all been coming from Mama

4. Wait patiently when nobody pays attention to me

5. Cry, shriek loudly when hungry

6. Pull Ian's hair and surprise him a little with how hard a little baby can pull!

7. Play with Ian (when Ian shows you his animals or other toys)

8. Cuddle with Ian

9. Smile admiringly at Mama, Papa and Ian

10. Eat solid food and hit the spoon while being fed, throwing its contents all over me and the person feeding me

11. A million baby crunches (since about the 2nd month trying to raise up and see things). See next.

12. Lift myself up and look around curiously. Am I missing anything?

13. Give cute smiles to random people

14. Get squished by Ian, either through hugs or hard play

15. Be the cutest and happiest baby on the block

16. Sit in the "bakfiets" with Ian and enjoy the view

17. Try to reach for stuff laying in front of me, also by using my legs to move object closer to my hands

18. Dance with Mommy and Daddy

19. Suck on random objects, including Ian's dirty socks

20. Eat and suck on a soft cracker (cracotte)

21. Pull socks off

22. Be captivated by anything and everything Ian does

23. Lay still on Papa's chest

24. Never lay still on Mama's chest

25. Fall asleep on the boob and the boob only

26. Travel - already visited the US, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Norway and the Netherlands already. Going to add 2 more countries to that list before the end of the year!

27. Flew on 6 airplanes and endured a few long car trips with little complaint (10-11 hours each way to/from France!)

28. Grab Papa's and Mama's glasses

29.  Grab a handful of Mama's hair in each hand while she carries me around.  Kindof like how a little monkey holds onto it's mama or papa's hair

30. Suck on my fingers - sometimes one, sometimes all at once

31. Suck on my toes - yummy

32. Sleep through the night from 6 weeks, until the 6th month when I wake Mama up about 2-3 times a night (think it's a growth spurt) 

33. Wake up from sleeping and remain very quiet so that nobody knows I am actually awake

34. (Slowly) Take Ian's toys away from him

35. Play music with my feet on this handy playmat my Nana Susan ordered for me

36. Charm the nurses at the consultatiebureau during my check-up appointments

37. Interrupt dinner with a high-pitched squeal

38. Listen to Ian reading a book

39. Admire and smile at myself in the mirror 

40. Lick my lips and stare intently at the food being eaten around me

41. Spit up my milk when it's too hot outside

42. Stay up late and party at weddings

43. Sit happily in the stroller while my mama walks me around talking to her friend

44. Pull my knees up a little under me in an attempt to start crawling

45. Laugh at Ian when he is being silly to me

46. Kick and move my arms and legs wildly about when I see someone walk by me who I love and am happy to see

47. Rock my own maxi cosi (car seat/stroller seat) by kicking one leg to get it going

48. In relation to the previous - get my (bouncy) chair bouncing by kicking my legs

49. Fall asleep in Papa's arms

50. Make people, especially my family, fall in love with me immediately.  I mean, look at my dimple and winning toothless smile - how can they not?

Happy 6 months, Sona!

You are 6 months old today. You are a very happy, smiling and easy baby. Of course, lately you have been keeping mama awake a lot at night, because you must be growing like crazy. Anyhow, we look forward to watching you continue to grow and develop (and return to sleeping through the night)!

Trying a soft cracker for the first time

Almost 6-month old hands

Mama and I enjoyed one of the last days of summer on Thursday. She decided to take photos of my hands. Go figure!

Ian serenading Sona

Ian sang (shouted) some of his favorite Dutch songs to Sona. She just loved it! Caught it on video and will try to post soon.

Sleeping baby

There's a place called France....

...where we did not get to dance, because the kids were there, thankfully not in their underwear...oh nevermind....

Our friends were married in Sanxay, France a couple of weekends ago and we made a super fast roadtrip there and back (i.e. about 10-11 hours each way!) in one short weekend.  Somehow, we managed to get some cute photos, despite looking a little disheveled sometimes :-)

Sleeping Sona

In action

This girl is on the move, almost. She rolled over to her belly constantly today and is trying to move to grab objects!

Too cute for words

Finally, a highchair

As you can see, Sona is happy with it :)

Cute with my big bro

Ian : No photos 

Sona : Take it easy, bro.

Ian : Yeah, you're right; let's have fun!

Sona : Yup, Ian better listen to my advice

Sona : I know how to charm mama and papa

Sona : Do I see a toy?

Ian : I love playing with Sona.

Trying a bottle by herself...

Bij Opa en Oma

Met Opa

Met glimlach en oma

Met mijn mond open