Quick Videos

I have been meaning to get a little video of you crawling. I know it is only a matter of time and you will be walking and I need to capture you crawling! So I got two quick videos of you crawling. The second one at the end always shows you playing with your favorite thing in your room (don't worry it gets cleaned everyday!).

10 Months

Explore, explore... you are into EVERYTHING now! Under tables, inside cabinets, under beds, peeking in the toilet (put a stop to that one right away!). You are checking out anything you can get to and into! You are excellent at cruising now and you can even stand for a few seconds on your own. We are just waiting for that first step and then I now I am not going to be able to keep up with you! You say "mama" ALL THE TIME now! You have three teeth with two more on the way. You do get pretty grouchy when those teeth are trying to break through, but lots of snuggles and cuddles usually makes you happier. You love your baths, as soon as I turn on the water for the bathroom are make a bee-line for the bathtub! And you are bouncing up and down, excited to get in there! You always like to try to turn the knob for the water on while outside of the tub, it's just within your reach and you always get excited when you make the water come out! You are eating more finger foods now and wanting to use a spoon (but I am not just not ready for that mess yet). Chicken is one of your favorite foods, especially when I cube it up and you can eat it on your own. You love to laugh and to be tickled. You love to watch Sam and you love even more to play with him. You just think he is so funny sometimes. For the most part you are always a happy baby and you can turn almost anything into a toy! Ten month pictures here!

Nine Months

You are crawling on all fours now! And you are pulling up on everything and cruising all over the furniture (and anything else)! When you see something that you want you can get to it in seconds, you are really fast! I know it won't be long before you are taking those first steps and chasing after Sam! You have even started playing with Sam a little bit. You love when Sam takes all the cushions off the couch in the living room and makes a fort out of them. You love to crawl under them and over them. You also love playing with Sam's toys in his room (when he lets you!). There is a container under Sam's bed with rollers on it and you already know how to pull it out and play with everything in there! You got your second tooth in, so you now your two front teeth on the bottom. Feeding you is getting easier. You are able to pick up little foods and gum them up. So for dinner you usually eat what we have just cut up really small. You are still a very happy baby and you are very content most of the time. You can say Mama and Dada pretty clearly now and you can even Papa! Some nine month pictures!



















weight: 22lb 14oz
height: 29.5 inches
(both in the 90% still)

Eight Months

ON THE MOVE! That is you now. You are scooting / crawling faster than ever now! You learned how to get into a sitting position on your own on July 2 and master than within 3 days. You can get across the room within seconds now, so nothing is safe anymore! You are also starting to pull up on everything, you can only really get to your knees, but the other morning when Daddy went to get you out of your crib in the morning you were pulled up all the way and hanging onto the side of the crib. So I had to lower your crib. It made me so sad to have to do that, it just means you are getting bigger and growing out of being a baby already. Your first tooth started to pop through on Friday and you seem to be doing okay with it. You don't have as much of an interest in eating anymore. I think you just don't think being stuck in that highchair when you know there is so much to explore and see! You even figured out the other day how to get up the two steps that separate the family room from the back foyer area. Nothing is stopping you from getting to where you want to be! I guess it won't be long and you are going to be walking... but I am just not ready for you to be that big yet. Pictures!

First Tooth

Your first tooth started to pop through today! It is on the bottom on right side. You have been a little fussy because of it, but not too bad, nothing a little Tylenol doesn't help with. Now just another 19 more baby teeth to go!

First Trip to the Beach

We went up north to Grandpa and Grandma's for the holiday weekend and of course that means that we would be visiting the beach. We got your swim shorts on (with matching hat of course) and your turtle floating thing blown up. Once at the beach we lathered you up with sunscreen and tried to keep your hat on (you would take it off after 5 seconds). I thought since you LOVE bath time that you would also love the water and the beach. I dipped your feet in which you didn't mind and then let you sit on the sand for a little bit. Then I tried putting you in your floating thing and you did not like that at all. So I sat with you on the beach towels for a little bit while you played. I thought I would try the water again with you and this time you really didn't even like sitting in the sand. Maybe it was because the water was cooler than your bath normally is or is what because the water is so much bigger. The next day we went to a different beach and you did sit with Daddy in the sand and played with a bucket and shovel. But you sat up far enough that water was not touching you. I am sure next year it will be the opposite and I won't be able to pull you out of the water! Here are pictures from the whole weekend.

Seven Months

You are getting so big lately it seems! You can almost sit up on your own now and you love the new view that you have (anything must be better than staring at the ceiling!). You have mastered rolling over both way and you are getting better and better at scooting all over. You still love babble and babble. You have the cutest little high pitched scream that you do when you are excited. You love to be tickled and I think I have found your most ticklish spot! You have not had any teeth pop through yet, but that is okay with me. I wonder what new things you will be doing by next month! Pictures!!!

New Foods

I decided before you were born that I was going to make all your baby food. Since you didn't like plain rice cereal I started just blending bananas, apples, pears, mangoes and other fruits to your cereal. You really like this and you are still eating a variation of this now. Then I started some veggies, simple things like carrots, peas, sweet potatoes and mixed veggies (frozen from a bag). I also decided when I was to make your food, I was going to do it organic (this is also an effort to get the rest of the family eating organic as well). It has been a huge learning experience, what to buy organic and what makes no sense to buy organic. I also bought a few books to help me along with recipes for combinations on your food. It does not take as long as I thought it would, only a few hours a week and I have enough lunches and dinners for two weeks at a time. Now you are starting to eat more combinations and I am starting to have a lot of fun making different things for you. You started chicken a couple weeks ago, mixed up with various veggies and some lima beans. This week your new foods are zucchini with tomatoes and sweet potatoes (which you have already had) with broccoli. I also just started making your morning cereal from scratch with brown rice mixed with your fruits. So far you seem to like everything I have made (Grammy and I think that there isn't much you won't eat!) and I hope that this helps you have a zest for all kinds of wonderful foods throughout your life.

Lock of Hair

You were born with a lot of hair (you even had some hair on your back!). But unlike your brother Sam (whose lost all of his hair by three months) you have kept all of your hair. And it has just gotten longer and longer. I couldn't stand it any longer, so tonight while you were taking your bath I got some scissors... I wasn't going to cut off much, just trim it up. But just trimming up your hair meant taking a lot off! But now it's cleaned up some (and a little uneven in the back) and it's shorter. And you didn't seem to mind at all!

Six Months

You are already half a year old! It doesn't seem like it was only a year ago that I was pregnant with you and another six months until you were born! You are changing so much these days. You still babble a lot, more and more everyday it seems. You are rolling over both ways and scooting all over the place. You certainly don't stay in one spot anymore, you can move yourself all over a room. Even in your crib, I lay you down one way and two minutes later you are completely turned around. You love your excersaucer and love to bounce in there. The drool has started that comes along with teething and of course everything makes it's way to your mouth. You love, love to eat, I think it's your favorite time of the day! You are eating three meals a day now and I am trying new foods with you all the time. So far, I really have not found anything that you don't like! You are really starting to love your baths, you love to splash and kick and a lot of times Sam takes his bath with you and you love when he splashes you too. You just love watching Sam, almost everything he does makes you laugh. You are just such a happy baby, you are always smiling and laughing and making everyone around you smile and laugh too!

Here are some new pictures of you and a video below of you playing in your excersaucer.