A new day, a new baby

One of the things I didn't expect about having a baby is how often and how quickly they change. Especially now, I think, around the 4-8 month period there is so much going on. I seriously feel like Katy is a different kid every week. I'll think back to last Tuesday and think, "Man, was that just last week she was doing that? And now she's doing this?" Something else that comes along with that is the trail of frustrating things. We just conquer waking up every two hours all night long and then she cries every time you put her down. Then we get over that one and she refuses the bottle. Right now there are several "things" going on with Katy:

1. She's teething - 2 lower ones poking through the gums a couple millimeters. This could explain alot of the problems below.
2. She has such sensitive skin that she has little rashes all over her body at any given moment - at THIS moment they are pretty flared up.
3. She just started refusing the bottle. She's taken one with no problem since she was three weeks old, but now she's decided to be picky and wait for mommy to come home from work.
4. She's also being picky about her solid foods - sometimes she takes it and sometimes she doesn't.
5. She just learned to sit up - all the sudden she can sit by herself and play with toys for 20 minutes or longer. This makes her (and me) very happy.

(This picture makes me think of what you do for a puppy - leave baskets of chew toys laying around.)

And all of this is new this week - incredible, huh? So in an attempt to soothe the teething discomfort I decided to try this contraption: she's supposed to be eating the banana through the mesh part, at first she was confused.

But eventually she figured it out:

So it only makes me wonder what next week will bring... we'll be back to report.