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Amilia is trying so hard to talk. Here is a video from a few days after the previous video.
Amilia is trying hard to talk. I hope she is an over achiever as she continues to grow and develop. By the way, she is growing out of clothes like crazy! She is starting to gain control over her hands and arms. She is focusing on us and smiling. Her smiles definitely do something to our soul. We apologize the the lack of Daily Photo posts as it's been busy in the Farris household. We are still in the process of buying a house (for Mia). It's hard to find a place with good schools, good neighbors, square footage, and lastly cost. The Bay Area prices make it difficult, but we are forging ahead.
Hi Amilia fans! As you may have notice, this site was down! Blame daddy! He was updating another site that this blog is attached to (jamesafarris.info), which is daddy's portfolio site and KABOOM! There went the portfolio site and this one. Nonetheless, after many conversations with the website hosting company, we are back. Sorry if this caused you to go through Amilia update withdrawals. We're back and everything is OK. :)
It's been a few days since we posted anything. Sorry, we have been keeping Amilia to ourselves. Today Amilia is 6 weeks old! She is over 8 pounds now. She is so much bigger from when we first met her. We can't tell, but when we look back at our first photos with her, it's pretty amazing how much she has grown. She is starting to have better head, arm, and leg control. She is even at the beginning stages of understanding her hand-eye coordination. She will try to grab objects hanging in front of her with her hands. She also is staring at faces more and her facial expressions are priceless. Some of them make mom and dad laugh, because she gets a angry eyebrow when she wakes up and one of us are in her face. We'll try to capture it on video. It's great. Medically she has been great, with the exception of battling gas that upsets her. It's a lot better than it was a few weeks ago, but it still comes and goes. Other than the gas, she also has acid r...
Watching The Walking Dead is WAY more entertaining than Disney Jr. She is definitely our daughter.
Amilia is 5 weeks old today! Last week we figured out bath time. As mentioned here and here , Amilia does not like baths. We tried the first bath, then the next bath we tested the temperature with a thermometer, so finally we decided we were going to get into the bath with her. Success! She likes to be with someone while taking a bath and twice has been comfortable from start to finish. Soon we will try to go back to an independent bath to see how she does. For now, she is clean and is getting used to the water. Here is Amilia after her bath today. Content and relaxed in her chair. Amilia's bathtime - April 1, 2016
Amilia is 1-month old as of yesterday (March 25). Time is going by so fast. She is starting to react to sound and focusing on different objects for a short period. She still has "crazy arms" where she can't quite move them into place, but you can certainly see the progress. She is now about 7 pounds 10 ounces. We are getting down a routine now, because she wakes up every three hours. Mommy takes the night shift at 3 a.m. to feed and daddy takes the early morning shift at 6 a.m. This helps us get ready for when daddy goes back to work, so he can sleep at night. At this point, the only thing Amilia has that makes her uncomfortable is gas pains. We are helping her with tummy massages and gas relief medication for infants. It seems to be helping. She's been a good baby and we are grateful she is healthy and doing well. We see the doctor on Monday for the official check up. Tomorrow is Easter, so we'll leave you with this... Tomorro...
Romeo left us suddenly this morning to go on and reunite with his best friend Aries and our son Adam. This morning started like any other morning. Amilia wakes up ready to eat, Romeo is "silent" barking in the front room because he needs to be expressed, is hungry, and wants to change the scenery (or switch sides he was laying on.) We ask each other who wants to take care of Amilia and who wants to take care of Romeo. Today it was mommy's turn to take care of Romeo, so daddy changed and fed Amilia. As Romeo was eating in his cart in the front room, Amilia was getting a bottle and a new diaper in the bedroom. Just a normal morning. When Romeo is done eating he gets put back in to bed on the opposite side he was laying on. Mommy always makes sure his head is comfortable, so his neck doesn't get stiff. But today was different. After Romeo was put back into bed he fell asleep silently, unknowingly to us he passed away. It was no more ...
Amilia is 3 weeks old already! Today is also the date she was supposed to be due. We decided awhile back with the suggestion of the doctor to have her 3 weeks early to avoid any complications the longer we wait. The good thing is she is healthy and doing well. She is doing "tummy time" everyday and everyday we see her getting stronger. We also talk to her and read to her. Even though she doesn't understand, she is hopefully hearing the tones in our voices as we read to her so she can develop her speaking skills in English (and Hungarian). She is starting to get on a schedule, sleeping for about 3 1/2 hours at a time. Hopefully that will increase so we can get a decent amount of sleep. Regardless of the lack of sleep, we love her and we are very happy she is healthy and developing well. We look forward to the two month mark when she gets all of her vaccinations and we can start taking her to more places.
Amilia is celebrating the next step in the right direction for captive animals. Today she celebrates with us that Sea World will no longer breed orcas. Here is the online article from the CEO himself. This has been in the news since 2013 when the documentary " Blackfish " was introduced to the public. You can learn more about the documentary here: http://www.blackfishmovie.com/ or you can watch it on Netflix . A warning that what you will see in the movie is quite disturbing and eye opening and was a big reason why we are posting this today.
We started reading books to Amilia a few days ago because we want to give her a head start and best chance of success as she grows. Besides there is only so much you can say to a newborn before you run out of things to talk about :) We try to read to her when she is awake and engaged. It seems to get a response even at this point in her life when she can't focus on one thing for too long. Besides it being a fulfilling experience as a parent to know you are doing what you can to help her develop, it's also beneficial in many ways. I'm sure if you haven't seen the commercials on T.V. or heard them on the radio, First 5 California has been advertising a lot about the benefits. Here's just a few: Builds a baby's language awareness, listening, and memory skills. Introduces concepts such as stories, letters, colors, and shapes in a fun way. Promotes bonding and closeness - especially because babies are soothed by the sound and rhythm of their parent's...
Amilia had her second check up today. She is now past her birth weight (6 pounds, 13 ounces) and is a healthy 7 pounds, 0.9 ounces. They also measured her head circumference, listened to her heart and lungs, checked her eyes, her hips, and addressed the questions we had. We were slightly concerned that she didn't sleep much last night and seemed uncomfortable. We suspected it might be gas. Which it turned out it probably was. So we learned what we have to do and today she has been sleeping really well, even into the night. Our pediatrician told us at this point we can start giving her a pacifier if we needed to soothe her and since she feeds really well, we can start giving her mom's milk in a bottle once a day. This helps her get ready for when Mommy has to go back to work and we need someone else to feed her. So far she has had two baths, both times she didn't like them. The last time she had one, parts of her body were turning purple becau...
Today, March 11, Amilia is already two weeks old! She also has her two week check up at the doctor's office. She is starting to move her head towards sounds and lights. She also is establishing her "feed me" routine. See the video below. We look forward to the time after she gets her vaccines so we can go out more with her and let her experience the world. For now, she seems content with her surroundings. This was last night before we went to bed. She loves her bunny pillow and seems to always pass out on it. Amilia passed out on her bunny pillow
We've been being very careful not to irritate Amilia's umbilical stump for the last week-and-a-half and have been keeping an eye on when it will finally fall off. Last night was that time. 10 days after she was born. We can now move from sponge baths to the real thing. No more umbilical stump - 3/7/2016 A little while after her stump fell off. Sleepy baby.