McCarthy Family

Miss Eisley is everywhere and into everything.

This past month has been crazy at the McCarthy house, but good. I was sitting down to write this post and realized Eisley is 8 months old today. This past month was the first time she had been sick--first with a virus that was followed by congestion. Then, two weeks later she still had the congestion and then an ear infection along with an eye infection. I got sick both times!! We are on all sorts of medicine and vitamins.

We celebrated my dad's 59th birthday.




We took our first trip to the zoo with the Brown's. We covered the whole zoo. Rachel said they had never walked through a whole zoo before!! When we were done we rode the train back.





Daniel's cousin Neely got married so we spent lots of time with his family that was in town before the wedding and our night at the wedding was short lived, but we wanted to bring Eisley along.








We also celebrated Thanksgiving-- Eisley was very sick and sensitive so it wasn't the funnest Thanksgiving we have ever had. I really enjoy playing games and such which didn't happen this year. Oh well!!

This picture is pitiful, but this is how the day was:

Well just short of 7 months Eisley popped up 2 teeth and began to crawl. It's not anything fast or perfect which I am OK with!!

We've added peaches, mango, chicken, and beef to her repertoire of foods. I think she just loves food. I started giving her the baby foods that have meat in them and since then she has been sleeping through the night! Coincidence? I think not.

I know everyone said she wasn't hungry, but this really makes me think she was. She immediately went from waking up 2-4 times a night to NONE!!! Thank the Lord. This all came at the perfect time (more on that later).

She was going through a stage of screaming at a high shrill when she didn't get her way..that has gone away for now with a few swats of the leg and firm no's from mom and dad. One morning she did at Daniel and he said NO, she looked at him with her tongue out and went PTTTHWWW!!! (I have no idea how else to make that noise).

Everywhere we go everyone tells us that Eisley is very attentive and observant. It's so funny that stranger's notice these things. It's probably because she stares them down.

Eisley Kate is 6 months old. Halfway to a year!

She's eating rice cereal, oatmeal, sweet potatoes, squash, pears, applesauce, peas, and green beans. I think her favorite is sweet potatoes and applesauce. She doesn't really like the cereals, but we give her a little bit since they say they need iron. I don't really know if they do!

She's NOT sleeping through the night, but we talked to the doctor about it and she gave me a few ideas to work on it without going cold turkey

Height: 27 inches- 90th percentile
Weight: 16 pounds, 9 ounces- 75th percentile
Her head is in the 42nd percentile..haha.

She's almost sitting up, but would rather get down and into everything. We've seen her get on all fours a couple of times so we think crawling is around the corner. She's started getting into baskets, bags, etc.

She loves to suck her thumb and takes a morning nap between 9-11 for about an hour and an afternoon nap at around 2:30 or 3:00 for 2-3 hours. I am able to get a lot of work done during those naps!!!

She is getting better about her separation anxiety, but gets upset when no one is paying attention to her--we're working on it.

What a learning process parenting is.

I've been thinking a lot about discipline and obedience. After all Proverbs says "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it."

Granted-my little one is only 6 months old, but I already here her babbling "nuh-uh" over and over again when she doesn't like something. This happens multiple times a day. In the back of my mind I am thinking "I am going to have to deal with this sooner than later." But HOW?

Do I want her to obey out of my fear of being humiliated? At this point, honestly, YES. I want her future obedience for the wrong reasons. (I say future, because right now she's so little that there are moments of not letting her get her way, but she doens't understand.) So that my life will be comfortable, but I know that REAL obedience won't come out mommy saying, "because I said so."

We are now responsible to train her little heart to love and be obedient to the Lord. Which in return is being obedient to us.

I am excited for the lessons to come for me and Eisley. I sure know I am going to learn a lot over the next 20 something years.

Today I was reading Psalm 20 and it's picture perfect of who God is to us.

He answers us when we're in distress
He protects us
He sends help
He grants support
He gives us the desires of our hearts and makes our plans succeed
He saves us
He answers us
He causes us to rise up and stand firm

It's crazy that we don't always allow Him to be God to us.