The Plague

Argh.  Sick house.  The Daddy has a dreadful cold.  Tabitha has a cough, though is otherwise in good spirits.  I am feeling a little off, but seem to be treading water - I feel no worse today than I did yesterday, so hopefully my body is kicking it.

Tabitha is SIX MONTHS OLD today.  Shocking.  It seems like a few weeks ago that I was holding this tiny, helpless baby in the middle of the night, gentle mewing noises, still smelling like fresh baby and birth.  Yet at the same time it seems like I have had her forever; I've grown another limb, and I cannot imagine being without it.  We have our 6-month health checkup today, so I will report back with height/weight findings.  Last time she was on the 99th percentile for height (super-duper long) and around the 65th percentile for weight (so thin-ish compared to her length).  6 months is a time when breastfed babies tend to naturally slow down their gains, so I wouldn't be surprised if she's dropped down a little from those high centiles.

Now that she is a Big Grown-up Baby of 6 months old, I tried introducing a potential allergen into her diet - so far she's only had meat, fruit and vegetables.  This morning we tried some toasted white bread, cut into fingers.  She was thoroughly impressed to be eating the same thing as Mummy for breakfast - she kept squealing and waving her toast at me and grinning when she saw my toast!  She sucked and gummed each of the four toast fingers and it seems that she ingested some.  Soggy bits of toast kept sticking to her sleeves, and she seemed quite alarmed by these barnacles, trying to shake them off.

I have noticed that Tabitha is growing out of some of her summer clothes already, which is frustrating!  This is because I bought a lot of her summer wardrobe in September, when she was three months, because we were going on holidays for two weeks to Port Douglas and Palm Cove.  She still has lots of nice things that will fit her for the rest of summer, but some of my favourite pieces are getting too small, which is very sad!  Hopefully we have another girl baby!

I've started booking our accommodation for our US trip in May.  New York will be AKA Central Park (though I am still umming and ahhing over whether we should split the stay, doing one week there and one week in Greenwich Village).  Boston I think we will stay in a suite at The Lenox, which looks really nice.  DC I'm still unsure about - I have on my list The Dupont Hotel, The Georgetown Inn, Morrison Clark Hotel, Hotel Rouge and a few others.  Not sure whether we should stay in Georgetown or closer to the monuments etc.  I do love Georgetown...  At any rate, I'm starting to get quite excited about the US trip, which is for the entire month of May.

Oh and in just a few weeks, early January, we are holidaying in Tasmania for 10 days!  That will be brilliant, hopefully escaping any Melbourne heat and enjoying some down time with The Daddy.  We are staying in Launceston, Freycinet and Hobart.