So we've been stuffing T full of all her yummy new foods she can eat (man does this kid love cheese!), I don't think we'll be able to hit 20 pounds by her first birthday, but we can try right?
Unfortunately she came down with a cold, seemingly out of nowhere, and has been a trooper. She only had one tough night trying to breathe/stay asleep. At one point I checked on her and she was asleep but a few minutes later when I checked on her again, this is what I found...
It was so cute!! Yet so sad at the same time since I knew she couldn't breathe too well. We didn't let her stay that way for too long - just enough to get the picture. Hopefully this cold passes soon and we can stop investing in Kleenex.
She has started to crawl the traditional way, although she doesn't do it a lot, she prefers to stand up holding onto whatever is close to her. Usually it's her exersaucer or the TV stand. She will pull herself up and just stare at the TV. She used to pull out all of the movies out of the stand until I got tired of cleaning them up and bought a nice little container to put them all in, so now she has an empty TV stand to play with! She also likes to chew on her gum stimulator while she plays. It looks like she may be getting her bottom two teeth, but who knows, it could still be months until they pop out of those gums!
And most of all she's realized that her Grandpa is her hero. Or, she's discovered the shirt he bought her at least. Still a little big, but she wanted to show her Gramps it almost fits her! Thanks for the T-shirt Dad; It only took 9 months for her to kind of fit into it!!
She is also becoming quite the shrieker. Well, it's more like a shriek/squeal. Her way of saying hi to the world I guess. I tried to get it on video when she was supposed to be taking a nap, but of course she stopped when I pressed record. How she knew I was outside her door, I will never know. I called Mark and let him listen and he asked if I was skinning a cat!! It's quite funny. Hopefully we can catch her and share it with all of you because I
know you're dying to hear what she sounds like.
Regardless of her ear piercing screeches, she is a whole lot of fun and an almost always, smiley little girl. Except for when we're sucking out her nose - then she's not too happy, but who would be happy if some plastic thing was shoved up their nose suctioning boogers out??
(Look at those arms!!) Too bad I can't get her to sit very long without sticking out her tongue, putting her fist in her mouth, lunging at me, or trying to grab the camera strap or lens cover. If I could just get her to look at me and smile at the same time!!!
It was so cute!! Yet so sad at the same time since I knew she couldn't breathe too well. We didn't let her stay that way for too long - just enough to get the picture. Hopefully this cold passes soon and we can stop investing in Kleenex.
And most of all she's realized that her Grandpa is her hero. Or, she's discovered the shirt he bought her at least. Still a little big, but she wanted to show her Gramps it almost fits her! Thanks for the T-shirt Dad; It only took 9 months for her to kind of fit into it!!
She is also becoming quite the shrieker. Well, it's more like a shriek/squeal. Her way of saying hi to the world I guess. I tried to get it on video when she was supposed to be taking a nap, but of course she stopped when I pressed record. How she knew I was outside her door, I will never know. I called Mark and let him listen and he asked if I was skinning a cat!! It's quite funny. Hopefully we can catch her and share it with all of you because Iknow you're dying to hear what she sounds like.
Today...
Too bad every picture is either a tongue hanging out with no smile, or the fist in the mouth with a smile!! Oh well...she's cute either way!
Who needs Windex anyway??
She's also quite adept at all things tongue. Most of the day is spent with her tongue outside of her mouth. She'll scoot around with it hanging out; playing with toys - it's stuck out. She doesn't really make nice farty noises with it, she just lets it hang out. Maybe she thinks it needs to be air dried? Either way, she enjoys comparing tongues with others. Dad's might be bigger, but hers is longer!
And she's just been busy looking as cute as ever in her lovely Christmas frock from her Auntie Jenne! This is the only picture I could get without a tongue... maybe her fist was keeping it from falling out this time!
T has her 9 month check up next week. We'll see if she's graduated into double percentile digits for her weight - we're not holding our breath! Any one want to place bets??
