Dear Georgiana,
You are six months old today, so happy half-birthday! You’ve changed so much, even in the past few weeks, that it’s hard to keep up with all of your milestones. Let’s see, in no particular order – you have one tooth, you’re getting comfortable eating solid foods, and you’ve had your first trip to the emergency room. Those are only the biggest things – there are so many other smaller achievements, ones that we see every day, that I will probably forget to tell you about.
Even though having teeth is something that all of us take for granted, seeing that little edge of enamel crest above your lower gum line was quite a treat for your Mom and me. You are a drooling monster during all of this, but you seem to have taken to the discomfort of teething even better than we had expected, and the pediatrician says that she can see a mouthful
of other teeth just waiting to make their debut. For now, you’ll have to be happy with one.
For the record, your very first solid food was an organic apple, pureed. You sat on the couch while we strapped a plastic bib that was the size of your torso around your neck, and your Mom pushed the spoon into your mouth.
Seeing your face light up at the first “real” food was such a delight, and I so look forward to introducing you to an entire world of new tastes. You love apples and bananas. Not so crazy about pears.
The emergency room was quite an adventure. You will not remember this, which is why I’m telling you that you’ve had a cold or a cough for about two weeks. On Easter Sunday, you sounded so wheezy that your great aunt told us that we should take you to the hospital because you had bronchitis. Since she’s a nurse, we took her advice and brought you in. Ultimately, it was not as bad as it seemed, and you’re already well on the mend without any drugs or other medical treatments. And we discovered that you really like playing with crisp hospital sheets, so that’s a plus.
You babble all of the time, and I ‘m sure you know in your heart that we can understand you (even though we really can’t). You like to stand up when you hold onto our fingers, and we’re thinking that you may not spend very much time crawling before you make that leap to walking around. You’ve discovered that you can grab things (like plastic rings, or toys, or hair, or earrings and necklaces) with your fingers, but you haven’t yet progressed to picking things up.
That’s all I can think of for now, although I’m sure to remember something else just as soon as I publish this. Oh, well.
Love,
Dad
