Here's a video of Audia doing her "army crawl". In the matter of about two days, she's gone from doing it once or twice a day to doing it CONSTANTLY when she's on the floor.....there's no stopping her once she's figured something out! She is definitely a "willfull". (My Uncle Bob refers to my parents and I as "the willfulls" (-: )
Well, Audia and I are sick again. :-( We both are pretty congested, sneezing and sniffling and coughing, and I have a killer headache. I must say that while she is definitely having a hard time with sleeping, she is in much better spirits than I. The past few days, she has been so extremely vocal, squealing and babbling a TON, and giggling at everything, even seemingly at nothing (she must have some inside jokes that we're not privy to.) Everyone always says she seems like such a happy baby, and she really is. I feel so lucky to have a baby that smiles and laughs as much as she does; even when she's feeling crabby, she still has a smile and a giggle for me. I only hope her happy-go-lucky nature will carry through her teens ;-)
My mom and dad are coming out here to visit for a week on Sunday so hopefully we will be better by then!
Audia is finally sitting on her own for longer than 2 seconds, which is exciting! It is pretty funny because she skipped over the whole sitting using her arms to prop her up and went straight to sitting without needing her hands. And she has figured out how to move forward on her belly, doing the 'army crawl' (although she hasn't totally mastered this, she has done it quite a few times). I am hoping that she will hold off on the crawling thing until we are moved to MN and have babyproofed out there.....
Attached is a video of her playing with daddy earlier today. Enjoy!
Audia turned 6 months old yesterday. Half a year!! I can't believe it. Actually, yes, I can. Our little munchkin is growing so fast that we are forced to recognize how long it's been since her birth! You can never truly understand how fast time goes when you have a child until you've had one. It is insane how much faster time is going this year than it did last year at this time.
So a while back I posted a blog about Mercury being found in HFCS.
Since then, the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy has done its own study on this discovery, and the results aren't good. Half of commercial High Fructose Corn Syrup was found to have mercury in it. And 1/3 of products where HFCS is the first or second ingredient were found to be contaminated with mercury as well. Some of the brands included in that 1/3 of products are Quaker, Hunt’s, Manwich, Hershey’s, Smucker’s, Kraft, Nutri-Grain and Yoplait......just to name a few.
The IATP study can be found here. I realize that we're all busy people, and it's hard sometimes to get a second to pee let alone read some long ass study. But do yourself a favor and at least read the executive summary. It is pretty scary that the FDA knows about this previously unknown source of mercury and has done absolutely nothing so far to change anything. The FDA is "supposed" to keep us, the consumers, safe. But it's pretty obvious that the only thing they care about is making "the man" (and themselves, I'm sure) a pretty penny. Damn the man.
As a side thought, perhaps mercury is part of, or the entire cause for autism? A lot of food marketed at kids is on the list.
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