Chub, Chub, Chub!

Hello!  My name is Seren, but most people call me Chubba.  If you ever saw me naked, you would know why.  Actually, my mommy started calling me that when I was first born and now it has stuck.  She's really trying to change it before I get older and get a complex!  So far, no luck.  Anyway, I am the baby of the family.  I live with my mommy, my daddy, and my two older sisters - Grace who is 8 and Ella who is 3.  I will be 8 months old in less than a week.  My mommy thought it would be a good idea to start a blog just for me.  Right now she has one that's supposed to be about Ella and me but she rambles about other things too.  She also helped Ella start her own today too!  Then everyone can read about what we've been up too.  You can read Ella's blog at http://ella-thestoryofmylifeasabear.blogspot.com/.

My life so far has been pretty good.  I wasn't happy the first few weeks of life and I cried a lot, but now I hardly ever cry and am smiling most of the time.  People tell me I look a lot like Ella, but Mommy says that my eyes are different and Daddy doesn't think I look like Ella at all.  Now that I am almost 8 months old, I have been up to all kinds of new things.  I'm not crawling yet but if I work really hard, I can scoot on my butt to get where I want to go.  I love to put all of my toys (well, anything I can get my hands on really) in my mouth and chew on them.  I don't have any teeth yet so it doesn't hurt anything.  It just makes everything really slimey.

In the last week I have developed severe stranger anxiety.  If you are not my mommy, my daddy, or one of my sisters, I do not like you.  Other things are beginning to frighten me as well.  Yesterday my mom had to run errands and she made the mistake of going to the car wash first.  This was my first experience in a drive-thru car wash and I did NOT like it!!  It was very loud and scary and it terrified me for the rest of the day.  I screamed and screamed for several hours after it was over.  I can't believe my own mother would traumatize me like that!  She can be so mean.

Right now I am doing a lot of cooing and babbling but much to my mommy's dismay I have yet to say Mama.  I think I will make her wait a little while longer.  (That's what she gets for trying to wash the car.)  As much as I enjoy putting things in my mouth, I am not a big fan of eating anything that isn't breastmilk.  My parents tried feeding me rice cereal which made me violently vomit for hours each time they fed it to me.  Then they switched to oatmeal which seemed to stay down until Tuesday night.  For some reason it upset my tummy and I threw up 4 times!  I've tried some vegetables but they don't taste very good and I spit them out as soon as I can.  Either that or I clamp my mouth closed really tight so that they can't get the spoon in my mouth at all.  It worries my mommy but my doctor said it's perfectly fine to just give me breastmilk up until I'm 12 months old.  I think she is going to talk to my doctor again at my 8 month check up next week.

Other than that, I haven't been doing much.  I still like to take a lot of naps during the day.  Probably because I like to wake Mommy up at least once during the night.  I get really hungry around 4 in the morning or in 's last night's case 3 in the morning.  But I have to go...I am getting really fussy because I am ready for my afternoon nap.  Enjoy a few cute pictures of me.  I hope everyone has a chubbin' fantastic day!

Oh, and by the way, I am very upset that Conan will not be on TV any more.  I really liked watching him during my midnight feedings.  I don't know who this Jay Leno fellow is, but I already don't like him.  I'm with team CoCo!!

This is me with the blanket Aunt Jessica made for me.

My mom took this of me yesterday morning.  I am a drooly mess!