Things I Don't Want to Forget Thursday

-Your hair is finally start to grow in, although pretty much just in the back. I love the way just a random piece of it will stick out--it makes you look silly and even more adorable than usual.

-Your brother Biggie (our 8 year old long haired Chihuahua) is finally starting to warm up to you and will come within your sphere of influence several times a day now. I can't even imagine how much he is going to adore you once you start having food to give him!

-It's going to be your first Halloween this weekend and I'm so excited to show you off in your adorable ballerina outfit. You look so beautiful in it!

-You're finally getting the hang of this solids thing and seem to actually enjoy the sweet potatoes you've been trying. We need to be better about feeding them to you everyday so you can really get it mastered.

-We took you to the park this last weekend (see photo below) and you loved the swing, even though you were so small in it. Wish it wasn't getting so cold here so you could do it more, but think how much fun we'll have in the spring when you're so much bigger!!

Wordless Wednesday

Drama Queen

Allie's had a shorter temper since getting sick (seriously, I feel like she's had this cold for YEARS! It's really only been 2 weeks but I can't really remember life before this cold), although, as she's pretty much the most easy going baby ever, probably makes her like most children her age (I'm seriously not bragging [well, maybe a little bit]--this kid's just super chill). What this has manifested in is crazy crying and screaming when she tips over when she's sitting. I understand the tears when she bumps her head on something, but more often than not, she just slowly rolls onto the pillow or blankets we have around her and breaks into high pitched wails. It's hard not to just laugh at her when she does this--at worst, she might be slightly scared by the fall, so I know it's not a pain-based reaction. She's really exploring her voice and will go up several octaves when crying--she's a very talented lady. She's also learned to couple it with very dramatic facial expressions--full on down turned mouth and pouted lip. It's adorable. It's not going to be adorable for long, I realize, but for now I'm pretty amused by the whole thing. In case anyone is worried about poor Allie here, I do scoop her up and cuddle her, so she does get the response out of me that she wants--out of respect for her acting ability, I do try to hide my smiles.

Splish Splash!

Giving Allie her bath last night, she figured out how to smack her hands down on the water and make huge splashes! She always likes to splash around in the bath but this was the first time I think she really understood how to do it and what she was doing...and she loved it! We got it on video thankfully although our Flip video was in serious danger of getting water damage--she was really sending the water flying! There is something so completely adorable about a wet baby anyway, and a wet baby that's so proud of themselves...well, it just doesn't get much better than that!

Things I DO Want to Forget

Allie threw up in my mouth on Thursday night. Was picking her up off the floor, had my mouth slightly open, and whammo! Kid's got a good aim I guess. I handled it much better than I would have guessed--John saw it all happen so grabbed Allie from me, I went in the bathroom and rinsed my mouth, then went upstairs and gargled with mouth wash. I've never been so glad that John prefers the horrible tasting original Listerine before, but that stuff basically cauterized my mouth and I couldn't taste a thing. I have a really easy gag reflex so I considered it a huge victory that I didn't puke myself. Guess it's just another awesome part of being a mom!

Things I Don't Want to Forget Thursday

We've been having Allie practice sitting between our legs on the floor and yesterday she could sit up on her own more than she needed to lean back on my legs or tripod. Although I won't let her do it on her own unsupervised for a while yet, I think she can officially sit on her own now.

Also new this week--Allie lunges at the dogs in her eagerness to pet them! The pug doesn't mind as she then is close enough to the baby to try to lick her to death, but the Chihuahua is slightly more nervous about this, with good reason. Allie's double his size at this point and she could really take him out if she wanted to.

Even with all the fussiness that Allie has been going through trying to cut her second tooth, she is still a joy and so smiley and silly so much of the time. She gets really serious in her Jumperoo (or command center as my husband John calls it) and then bounces around like crazy over something. She gets happy feet--soo cute!

Teeth & Shopping Problems

Ok, so these things have nothing to do with each other, but it seemed silly to make separate posts about them.

First off, and more importantly, Allie is currently sprouting her second tooth. That's right, my child has teeth. We realized she was getting her first one over Labor Day when my mother in law said she felt one coming in. Talk about feeling like a parent that isn't paying enough attention to their child--we didn't even notice that she had a tooth coming in! She's been a pretty heavy drooler for months, but our pediatrician reminded us that babies can do that for months without getting teeth, so we shouldn't think it meant anything necessarily.
Not so in Allie's case, I guess. Anyway, that tooth came in with very little fuss but she's been a bit of a bear now with this second one (again, our daycare provider had to point out that she thought a second tooth was coming in--talk about some slacker parents!). She's still sleeping well at least and I know that her extreme fussiness is nothing compared to most kids', so we'll deal. She seemed a bet better this morning so hopefully the worst is over (also saw a corner of the tooth peeking out this morning so now that it's broken the skin, it should get better). I now need to figure out exactly how many teeth kids get so I know roughly how many more times we're going to have to go through this!!

The shopping problem I'm having isn't your usual shopaholic issues--well, it is, but in a different way. I'm currently super addicted to getting good deals on things. I check daily a bunch of mom bargain/deal blogs and websites and am constantly ordering things that are good deals. While this seems like a great thing, I know it's getting a bit out of hand. As of today, I have enough clothes for Allie until easily this time next year. I know, I know, that's terrible. I just can't seem to say no to a good deal. The thing with clothes is is that I may end up getting burned on them if she doesn't stay on her predicted growth curve and ends up in different sizes than I predicted. I really hope that doesn't happen, but the thought of that has me holding off on buying any more clothes in the near future. But I just channel that deal shopping mentality into other things--in the last two weeks, I've bought an outside swing, a furminator for our dogs and several wedding gifts for upcoming events we've got going on. I really need to get a handle on this!