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Monday, February 28, 2011
What's goin' on...
Long time, no post, which I realize is less than shocking. What the monkey's been up to lately:
-She's full on cruising now, along the ottoman and coffee table (which is pretty much just a big ottoman). She can also get going pretty well with the two push walkers we have, but can't do too many steps--she gets freaked out and will "walk" on her knees for a while (or tries to put a leg up on the one that converts to a ride on toy, it's pretty funny).
-Learned to clap last week, gets very excited about it when she does it. She doesn't wave anymore though, so I'm wondering if the clapping has replaced it. She's very strange with learning how to do something, then just stopping doing it, even though she clearly knows how. She's a very fickle little thing.
-Loves her bedtime book--no matter how tired and crabby she is, she'll sit quietly and happily while I read one of four books to her. In my favorite bedtime book "On the Night You Were Born" by Nancy Tillman, she will let loose a big grin at one of the last pages that has a polar bear looking out at the reader, it's the cutest damn thing ever. I'll turn to different pages and then back to that one, and she always lights up when she sees that picture. It pretty much crushes John and I every time she does it.
-She's full on cruising now, along the ottoman and coffee table (which is pretty much just a big ottoman). She can also get going pretty well with the two push walkers we have, but can't do too many steps--she gets freaked out and will "walk" on her knees for a while (or tries to put a leg up on the one that converts to a ride on toy, it's pretty funny).
-Learned to clap last week, gets very excited about it when she does it. She doesn't wave anymore though, so I'm wondering if the clapping has replaced it. She's very strange with learning how to do something, then just stopping doing it, even though she clearly knows how. She's a very fickle little thing.
-Loves her bedtime book--no matter how tired and crabby she is, she'll sit quietly and happily while I read one of four books to her. In my favorite bedtime book "On the Night You Were Born" by Nancy Tillman, she will let loose a big grin at one of the last pages that has a polar bear looking out at the reader, it's the cutest damn thing ever. I'll turn to different pages and then back to that one, and she always lights up when she sees that picture. It pretty much crushes John and I every time she does it.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Nothing to see here.
Nothing particularly new and exciting has been happening with us lately, but felt I needed to post. Oh, one exciting thing, I guess, Allie's learned to wave. She's been doing it for about 2 weeks and is getting really good at it now, it's so stinking cute. Love it.
Also, last weekend (two weekends ago, I guess, as last weekend would be two days ago, right?) she made the "ma" sound for the first time, so now it's at least possible that "mama" will be her first word. She uses "da" sounds more though so I don't think it's going to happen, but you never know!
Also, last weekend (two weekends ago, I guess, as last weekend would be two days ago, right?) she made the "ma" sound for the first time, so now it's at least possible that "mama" will be her first word. She uses "da" sounds more though so I don't think it's going to happen, but you never know!
Friday, January 7, 2011
9 Months
Allie is officially 9 months old today! My how time as flown. Awesome things she is doing:
-Crawling like a madwoman--she can even move on wood floors. All the daycare kids love to tell me about how Allie will no longer stay in "baby land" and instead keeps trying to crawl out to play with the big kids.
-Pulling up constantly--we got a leather ottoman to use as a coffee table during this time (it's a storage one so after that I'm sure we can use it for toys) to try to help minimize the bumps and bruises she gets and she loves gnawing on the corners of it and popping the stitches with her teeth. Obviously it's going to be in rough shape very quickly, but oh well. She will even slightly walk along the ottoman so I'm sure full fledged cruising won't be too far behind.
-Super smiley and will giggle if you make funny noises--previously she used to just laugh if you tickled her or swung her around or something like that, but now she loves if you make barking noises (Sandra Boynton's "Doggies" is a favorite book right now) or other silly mouth sounds. Love making her laugh.
-Still no real stranger anxiety--my cousin came over this week and Allie hadn't seen her for months and she still went willingly to her and didn't have a problem with it. She's somewhat reserved when she's around new people, but between reserved and a bawling mess, I'll take reserved.
-Really discover her voice over the holidays--likes to make farting sounds with her mouth and will shout occasionally. Makes all sorts of other noises, but nothing particularly close to words yet. There's a few dadada's every once in a while, but even my husband doesn't think she's said dada yet (and lord knows if it was close he would say she was!).
-Much better about sitting and looking at books when I read to her, she really seems to love the pictures. Am hoping that she will develop the same love of reading that my husband and I have.
-No longer uses the baby tub and loves the added space for more toys that the grown-up tub allows. Splashes and plays like a crazy woman in there (so much so that she bumped her head on the faucet early this week--time to get a faucet cover!!).
-Has the tiniest feet even though she's a big girl overall (she has her 9 month appt next Friday so we'll see if she's still at the top of the percentiles then but I imagine she will be)--still fitting into 0-6 month shoes! I'm wondering if her tiny feet will impede her ability to stand on her own? I guess we'll just have to see!
-Is finally eating purees! We worked a lot with table foods over the holidays and I guess it paid off, b/c now she'll eat puffs like a champ and will eat purees twice a day (before we could rarely get her to even open her mouth!). Such a relief to have her finally getting some calories from solid food (not that I'm expecting her to want/need less breastmilk at all--that will be her primary source of nutrition until she's one, but I'm happy that she's learning to eat other foods as well).
-Crawling like a madwoman--she can even move on wood floors. All the daycare kids love to tell me about how Allie will no longer stay in "baby land" and instead keeps trying to crawl out to play with the big kids.
-Pulling up constantly--we got a leather ottoman to use as a coffee table during this time (it's a storage one so after that I'm sure we can use it for toys) to try to help minimize the bumps and bruises she gets and she loves gnawing on the corners of it and popping the stitches with her teeth. Obviously it's going to be in rough shape very quickly, but oh well. She will even slightly walk along the ottoman so I'm sure full fledged cruising won't be too far behind.
-Super smiley and will giggle if you make funny noises--previously she used to just laugh if you tickled her or swung her around or something like that, but now she loves if you make barking noises (Sandra Boynton's "Doggies" is a favorite book right now) or other silly mouth sounds. Love making her laugh.
-Still no real stranger anxiety--my cousin came over this week and Allie hadn't seen her for months and she still went willingly to her and didn't have a problem with it. She's somewhat reserved when she's around new people, but between reserved and a bawling mess, I'll take reserved.
-Really discover her voice over the holidays--likes to make farting sounds with her mouth and will shout occasionally. Makes all sorts of other noises, but nothing particularly close to words yet. There's a few dadada's every once in a while, but even my husband doesn't think she's said dada yet (and lord knows if it was close he would say she was!).
-Much better about sitting and looking at books when I read to her, she really seems to love the pictures. Am hoping that she will develop the same love of reading that my husband and I have.
-No longer uses the baby tub and loves the added space for more toys that the grown-up tub allows. Splashes and plays like a crazy woman in there (so much so that she bumped her head on the faucet early this week--time to get a faucet cover!!).
-Has the tiniest feet even though she's a big girl overall (she has her 9 month appt next Friday so we'll see if she's still at the top of the percentiles then but I imagine she will be)--still fitting into 0-6 month shoes! I'm wondering if her tiny feet will impede her ability to stand on her own? I guess we'll just have to see!
-Is finally eating purees! We worked a lot with table foods over the holidays and I guess it paid off, b/c now she'll eat puffs like a champ and will eat purees twice a day (before we could rarely get her to even open her mouth!). Such a relief to have her finally getting some calories from solid food (not that I'm expecting her to want/need less breastmilk at all--that will be her primary source of nutrition until she's one, but I'm happy that she's learning to eat other foods as well).
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