Precious Smile

Kneeling Up

Lately, you've gotten really good at kneeling up. It won't be long before you're standing by yourself, but for now you kneel up and look around.

You also like to chew on your fingers, like you're doing in this picture. You put your fingers in our mouths and feel around, and you also put them in your own mouth and wiggle them against your tongue.

A Rare Moment

You laying on your back not squirming. It was such a rare occurrence I had to take a picture.


Changing your diaper and getting you dressed has become much harder now that you can move. Most of the time I'm chasing you around the room trying to get you dressed. You're too busy to hold still!

Playing with Gabbi

Our friend Gabbi comes over and plays with us on Wednesdays while her Mommy teaches dance. You two are really cute playing together.


Gabbi is good at sharing, and kept trying to give you some of her water to drink. Gabbi is going to make a good big sister some day!

Hanging Out

You like to hang out with daddy and me. Often you'll crawl up to us and bump into our legs until we pick you up.


You like to see what we've doing on the computer:


You LOVE riding on our shoulders. Whenever we put you up there you get the biggest grin on your face.


You're ready to get up in the mornings way before I am, so the first little bit of your day (after a morning feeding and diaper change) consists of me laying on the couch trying to wake up while you play on the floor. Sometimes you want to come up with me, so I'll pull you up there and play with you.

Blowout

Reading

You tend to like to be where the action is. For a couple weeks you went through a phase with our reading. When I tried to read with you sitting on my lap you would fuss and squirm until I put you and the book down on the floor. Then you would sit on the book and poke at the pictures and grab the pages.



You've since realized that you can see better if you're not sitting right on the book.

Bath Time

You LOVE taking baths. Whenever I start to fill up the bathtub you get so excited and happy. During the day you'll crawl into the bathroom, stand up by the tub and starting hitting it, like you're telling me you want a bath.

You love to stand and watch the tub fill up:

In the bathtub you splash around and play with toys. You're so happy there!

One time I took a bath while you played around in the bathroom. You kept crawling over and looking at me, then you would crawl away and keep playing. When I was finished you came over and stood by the bathtub with a big grin on your face. You were so sad and started crying when I took you out of the bathroom and you realized that you wouldn't be getting a bath.

Messy Eater

Convincing you to eat solids has been a little bit tricky. You definitely like to let us know exactly who is in charge. Sometimes you'll eat a ton and other times you refuse to eat anything.


You eat best when you have something else to do at the same time (like watching daddy eat, playing with a spoon). You are also super squirmy and end up spreading food all over your high chair.

First Tooth

This month your first tooth cut through! It was not a fun time for you. You were still very active, but got sad much faster. One thing that helped was letting you chew on a cold pop can.


Now you have a little tooth on the bottom. It's pretty sharp and hurts when you bite us!

Standing

You've learned how to pull yourself up to standing, and do it all the time. You push yourself up with pretty much everything. Boxes, couches, chairs, our legs, the bathtub, etc. It's adorable.

You can now stand up to watch your bath run:


You can get up to say hello to daddy and me while we're sitting up:


And you can get up to reach things you shouldn't be getting into (here's you're reaching for my computer):

You're getting more stable on your legs. You'll be walking in no time.

Crawling EVERYWHERE

Now that you can crawl, you rarely hold still. You love crawling all around and exploring everything you can find.

You've also gotten pretty good at making messes. For example, you like to pull our DVDs off the shelf.
One afternoon I looked up and saw my shirt moving across the floor. You had gotten it over your head and then you started crawling around. When I started laughing you poked your head out of the sleeve to see what was so funny.

You also like to follow daddy and me all around. When I go into another room, you follow after me. Sometimes I'll go into another room and say "Paige, come find me!" and you will! You crawl until you can see me and then you get a big smile on your face.