Favorite new sound.....

Raspberries!

Sakura has figured out how to make raspberry noises and does it ALL the time now!

It's pretty funny - she is jumping in her jumper in the video (it's not the easiest to focus when she's moving around a bunch, so bear with the shaking camera).

Toward the end she makes her sounds.

Here she goes

A few of pictures that I took Friday, it was pretty nice outside (well nice as far as Arizona standards) so we went out back and layed on the blanket, with the wind blowing. Sakura loves to watch the trees when it's windy outside and the dogs of course!

Just a super short video clip of Princess P rolling over from her back to her tummy,

especially created for Seth Brody.

Hopefully our next video will be of the Princess with her new favorite sound.......stay tuned!

Rolling over...Part 2

Tummy time by Kellie

Peyton Sakura has mastered rolling over in both directions now! She can now roll from her tummy to her back and back to her tummy.

SO nice, so we don't hear the 'hmmmm please roll me back over' whines anymore!

This cute picture a friend at work took of Peyton last Friday!

We can't wait to see the rest of the pictures, the three we have seen are oh so cute!

Hives...Rash...Yuck!

Even hives/rash can't keep Sakura from hanging on to those piggies!

Not too sure what's going on, but we don't like it! Last week when we were at the Dr. we asked about what we thought was heat rash...The Dr. didn't think it looked like heat rash with the way we described what the rash looked like, and she felt herself, but thought maybe Sakura had "dry skin" so Dr. Amon said that we should try using Dove soap, and use a cream instead of lotion because lotions have alcohol to help absorb into the skin faster....but when I looked at the creams, it appeared they had alcohol in them instead, so I checked the Johnson's baby oil container, and saw that it didn't have alcohol and decided I'd try that. We also tried apricots last week....so I'm not sure what this hive/rash stuff is all about, but I know that it's not pretty!



Poor little Sakura - she doesn't seem to be bothered by it, but I don't like the way it looks. The nurse called back yesterday and said that we could give her Benedryl, but after hearing from my friend Carrie that it isn't safe for under 4 years old...I won't be doing that! It's Oatmeal baths and Aveeno for this little girl.

Still happy and jumping, despite having hives

6 Month stats

Where's Peyton Sakura?

Today was Peyton Sakura's 6 month old "well baby" checkup and shots .... ARGH! Sakura really knows where she is and started crying when the nurse was just measuring her. Dr. Amon commented that one of the other Doctors says that he remembers being an infant at the Dr. office - and she said that we might have one with the same type of memories! Poor thing.

Dr. Amon did get a smile from Sakura by the end of the visit - but only when she said
"Y-u-u-u-u-u-c-k-y", that seems to still get a big smile...LOL!

Here I am!

Here are the stats from our visit:

• Weight = 17.0 lbs (75th percentile)
• Length = 25 inches (25th percentile)

Luckily after we go back for our second half of this visit, we have a 3 month reprieve. Yay!

Here is a little video of a very sleepy baby jumping in her new jumper - that was her 6 month present :o) Daddy has wanted a jumper for Princess P since about Day 1.....she LOVES jumping, but here she is laughing at me saying "Jump", when she gets very sleepy she giggles and giggles - we think it's pretty cute :)

Peyton Sakura turns 6 months old!

Peyton Sakura 6 months old!

It's hard to believe that our little angel is 6 months old already. At only 6 months old, Sakura has brought us so much joy and happiness, we can hardly remember our lives without her, as we look back to our trip to Japan to get our baby girl, my eyes fill with tears, it's true "Dreams Really Do Come True" - just Believe~

At 6 months Peyton Sakura is

• Eating solid foods - green beans, squash, carrots, sweet potato, pears, peaches, and apples along with her cereal
• Sitting up with very little assistance, at times for short periods on her own
• Patting your arm when you hold her
• Laughing out loud (mostly at the dogs)
• "Talking" a lot more
• Smiles a lot, but is very selective and reserved about who and when (still!)
• Holds her own bottle
• "Moves" around/pivots from one direction (360 degrees) while on her tummy
• Has started to reach out for Mommy/Daddy when someone else is holding her
• Puts EVERYTHING in her mouth

(Note: Last week when we sent in our update to Taz and Lesley, Taz commented that "Okada San asked if Sakura smiles a lot, because Sakura was very hard to make smile." I told Auntie Taz that some things never change!

Heat Rash :o(

Not crying, but 'talking' - she makes these silly faces and drools like crazy when she 'talks'!

It's been SO hot lately that this really isn't surprising, but Peyton Sakura has what appears to be heat rash (prickly heat). Poor little thing - it doesn't seem to bother her at all, but sure looks like it would! Her poor little "neck" is so red at night when she gets her bath.




Tonight Daddy googled and saw that adding a couple of teaspoons of baking soda should help, so we did just that - and it also mentioned air drying, so I let her lay on her towel until she was all dry. Then it was time for jammies and bedtime.

Reading her book

About 2 seconds after I took this picture, she "fell" over and knocked her head on a toy and wasn't happy.....

We had a busy weekend with my Mom and David here - unfortunately I think all of the pictures must be on my Mom's camera and not mine!

Peyton got some new books this weekend, some from Grandma some from Mommy - some soft so she can 'eat' them which is usually what happens!

She also got some cute new jammies - gotta love jammies! Grandma has a 'ducky' theme going for Sakura, and found a new pair of ducky jammies....and a cute elephant pair....Mommy loves elephants and giraffes! Thanks Grandma for the books and jammies!