8 Months Old!

Wow am I getting big...or atleast that is what mommy tells me :)

See my new shoes?? I have two pair now :) The ones in the picture are my purple ones with butterflies on them :) They are so cool, I even have matching socks!

So the new things I can do now...lets see

I can sit up with out support. I like to topple over though so I can crawl around.
Oh yeah I "crawl" Mommy calls it the one armed army crawl, but I still can get from point a to point b with little issue.
I also am mommy and daddy's little vacuum cleaner. If they miss something it goes right into my mouth. So far mommy has pulled some memorably things...like hershy kiss wrappers and carpet bits from the cat tree. Oh and clear plastic once...which took her three tries before finding it. I also got my first taste of chocolate donut from some crumbs that were on the floor, and think during this last playdate I got my hands on a pb & j sandwich. Won't they learn i'm QUICK :) Mommy won't let me have any MORE peanut butter or chocolate though...she says I still have to wait.

I also feed myself very well now :) Infact tonight I ate spaghetti for the first time. Some other foods i've tried are...steamed carrots, sweet potatoes, potatoes, banana, pineapple, apples, and turnip. I didn't like the turnip very much, but the rest I liked alright. Oh I also like rice. I ate a french fry once too when we ate at Denny's with Uncle Tom. I still get my puffs and "surf boards". I can also hold my own bottle now too :)

I'm done with my shots until i'm 12 months old. Which I like to hear...those suckers hurt :\

I like to say "ba ba ba" and "da da da". I don't understand why mommy and daddy get so excited when I say "da da da"...do you know?

Mommy says I'm a big girl now...so I don't get to use the sink bath tub anymore. I now take baths in the big bath tub, which is so much fun. I like to splash (sometimes) and scoot from one end to the other.

I'm still getting the hang of the walker...I can only go backwards.

No teeth or even signs of teeth yet.

The doc said at my last visit...I'm in the 60th percentile for weight and 70th(?) for height. I'm 18.? lbs. Everything looks good on me. The doc has no concerns.

I con't to out grow my clothes...I'm trasitioning from 6-9 to 12 month now...which is good since I have alot of summer 12 month clothes already :)

I think thats all folks...Did I miss anything?

Using my Walker :)

I'm really getting the hang of this walker. Check me out!

I LOVE that bear!!!

Aunt Carol bought Great Grandma a special bear to cheer her up when she was in the hospital for awhile. Grandma Dineen played it for me when we were visiting in the hospital. It was SO cool! I loved it to pieces!

RICE!

YUM!

What a mean mommy...

Check out what my mommy did to me in this video!



Ha I showed her...I didn't even care, much!

We look alike :)

Mommy every now and then looks at me and sees alot of Kaitlin in my face. But it's hard to capture it on film to share with you all. But she thinks she finally got the right picture. We are sisters afterall so it's only natural that we should look alike :) I guess that means Kaitlin looked alot like Daddy too...maybe when they make me a little brother he will look more like mommy so she doesn't feel so left out...hehehehehe.

Visiting Relatives

So we spent some time north after my great grandma passed away. I got to see some of my mom's relatives that we don't get to see that often.

Like Uncle Travis :)

He flew in from Wyoming. Mommy missed out on getting a picture of him and I in his blues, but we got a few pics here and there :)

Here's one of my waking him up one morning :)
I also got a chance to see and chat with my Auntie Kristi :) Since Uncle Travis and her were using the Cam on the computer :)

We also made a few trips to see my Great Grandpa Henry. I'm sure he gets lonely without my Grandma around now. He was always pretty excited to hold me, I'm the first baby he's ever held! Can you believe that! But I'm cool with it :)

I also met Great Grandma Henry's friend Olive. She lives at the nursing home too. She is also pretty sad that Grandma isn't around any more. :\

We did a quick visit with Great Papa :) He was super excited and happy to see Mommy and me.

We also visited with my Great Grandma Trombley and Papa Reggie :) It was fun too since Reggie hadn't holded me yet and did this time :)

After all that visiting you would think I would be sleepy, but NOPE. I still had enough to smile pretty for some pictures Grandma Herne and Mommy had done at Kmart :) Thank you Grandma for the pretty dress :)

Happy Saint Patricks Day!

Mommy found this onsie awhile ago at Babies R Us. She made sure she bought it big...and a good thing too it just fit me :) Then I ate dinner and stained it :\ Oh well atleast we got some good pictures!! Next year mommy talked about making Rainbow Cupcakes with me :) I can't wait! I bet my fingers and lips will be all sorts of different colors after eating those!

RIP Grandma Henry

Our family lost another grandmother on March 7th.
Too many of my great grandparents are leaving us to hang out with Kaitlin :\
I don't even know what to say at this point. Another sweet person was taken from us to soon.
She will be missed but not forgotten by all that knew her. Again I was the last baby she had a chance to snuggle with :\ It's all just too sad. This will be my third Great Grandmother since being born and I'm not even 1 year old yet!

On the move...

backwards? Mommy has been trying to get me to show you all how I move backwards on occasion now, but I'm a little shy. I mean I'm not that good at it yet and she wants me to just go ahead and show you all before I've perfected it?

In this video she caught me sort of doing it, it was the best she's got so she decided it should get put up :)

In this video you see me doing something I've very much perfected, talking! I can gab and gab all day long now :) I do move backwards a little in this movie, but it's not as good of obvious. I do show you all how I swim in place though :) I'm practicing for when I get to dip my toes again in a pool :)

I love my Daddy :)

He's the bestest!
Although mommy tells me one of these days I'm going to give him kisses like these and wish I hadn't. Daddy likes hotsauce :\ But I'm sure I will forgive him :)

New Shoes!

Look what Mommy bought me :) She said with the warmer weather coming I'm surely not always going to be in my warm snow suit and that I would need something to put on my feet, aren't they cool! I think they are really pretty too! I know one thing for sure, they make it ALOT harder for me to get my socks off my feet!

Playing in the Snow!

Alright more like sitting in the snow :) But we got a LOT snow a week ago and mommy and daddy took me out to sit in it :) Well really, daddy had to shovel and mommy decided we could go out for a minute or two and take a few pictures since he was out there.
See Daddy shoveling :)



I was ready for a nap so I didn't like it THAT much, but it was alright. I was nice and warm except for my checks. Mommy found that the snow was packy so she made me a seat to sit in. I got fussy after a few minutes of that...I couldn't move! It was like I was glued into place. I don't know if I like snow so much it's hard to move around in :\


Hehe Daddy calls this snowsuit my Twitter suit. I don't know why...do you?
Thank you Aunt Sue L. for giving me this snowsuit and the others you gave me too that I can't wear yet :) It keeps VERY warm :)

Getting around :)

So now that I can really get around alot easier I get myself into all kinds of trouble :)
I know how to take my socks off and take the DVDs off their shelves.


Wiggle into tight places....

And make mommy wonder what is in places she hasn't seen in months!


But it's also always fun when daddy pins me in with things and makes me giggle. First the kitties used to get stuck in mount clothesmore and now I do!

New Bedroom Setup

Okay so this isn't new at this point, but here is how we are sleeping now. I love it! Mommy tooky my crib and put it on the lowest setting, she put thier mattress right up against it (with the side of the crib off). Now when I roll in the middle of the night I sometimes end up right on daddy :) But most of the time I stay in my crib. It makes it easier for them to feed me I guess since they don't even have to get up. I like it too since when I get really fussy they usually just drag me into bed with them and I get what I want to snuggle with the mommy or daddy :)

Mommy took this picture of Daddy putting me to sleep. He does a pretty good job :) And mommy said I have to let everyone know before Grandma says something...yes they put covers on me! Daddy wasn't to that part yet when mommy took the picture. I stay nice and warm all night long...sometimes I even think too warm...and I try and try to kick my covers off but they keep putting them back on me! Can someone tell mommy to stop doing that? I know what I'm doing! I just don't know how to get them back on when I'm cold again....but thats what mommy is for :)

But here is the really cool thing :) So during the day since it's hard to get over to my crib I get to sleep in the big comfy bed :) Daddy calls it sleeping with the penguins. And that bed is always nice and warm and so soft and comfy...*yawn* I get sleepy just thinking about it!

Baby's first hairdo?

Like I said before Mommy is a little behind in the posting so for the next few days she's going to try to get some up from last month/week so we aren't too far behind :)


So mommy was being silly one day after my bath and stuck all my hair up. She's kind of nutty like that. The sad thing is that the rest of the day she kept trying to get it to stay down and it wouldn't...hehehehe. Thats why I was giggling so much while she was doing it...I knew she would regret it later. I looked like Albert Einstein the rest of the day!

7 Months Old!

I'm 7 months old today. Not sure what that means but mommy seems a little happy about it.
I can do lots of things now too :)
I not only roll all over the place. I can push myself to move around in a circle while on my belly. So I can get to more things :)
I also have started pushing myself backward some by lifting my tummy off the ground. Daddy was pretty excited one day when he saw me do that. I don't know why. I mean I was just scooting to get to a toy.

Mommy has started giving me these rice cake type things...atleast that is how she explains them. Well here's a video of it anyways. Just to warn you it's probably rather boring. I mean I'm just eating. I wasn't going to do anything cute for the camera, I just wanted to eat! Oh but that IS my daddy practicing his guitar in the background :) Can you tell what song he was playing?
(oh and me coughing, isn't from choking..I'm getting over a cold)

I've also learned how to grab puffs and eat them too. I'm not as good at it since they are tiny little buggers, but I manage to get 1 out of 5 in my mouth, the floor gets the rest. They are pretty yummy too, especially the banana ones!

Mommy was also very happy with me yesterday when I ate her roasted mashed up carrots she made me :) I didn't puke them all up or anything. I actually REALLY liked them. Too bad she only made a few for me :| But thats alright I got to eat banana, plum and grape puree...thats yummy to!

I know how to find and put my pacifier in my mouth. Mommy and Daddy both appreciate that. I still have trouble holding my own bottle though...why would I want to learn how to do that when Mommy and Daddy do such a good job at holding it for me :)

I wake up 2-3 times a night to eat a little something. Most of the nights I hang out in my crib now, but Daddy is pretty close since the crib is right tight up against the mattress. I still usually end up in bed with mommy and daddy. But it's much later into the night (I think mommy said something about 5am).

I guess thats enough about me for right now. I know mommy hasn't been putting much up. We get busy and she and I have been really sick. I was just getting over it when she came down with it :\ Poor mommy.