Wednesday, June 6, 2012

stop growing!

AngelBaby is almost nine months and is growing and learning so fast.  I keep wishing and hoping that if I squeeze her tight enough that I can slow it down but to no avail.

I love her kisses, she's figured out how to make the sound and always follows it with her happy grin.  When I try to kiss her, she holds her lips still and then just looks at me with a happy curiosity.

She loves to roll all over the floor and has finally hit that stage where she's difficult to change.  She loves to have her legs bare so she waits until they are free from her sleeper or pants and then wriggles and rolls away from me.  I have to work quickly, sometimes even pinning her down with my legs so I can actually change her.

She loves to eat, now that we've mastered swallowing.  She loves her baby food but loves finger food even more.  She will go after a baby puff, grasping it into her palm to pick it up and then manipulate her hand to push the puff up to her thumb and finger and put it into her mouth.  She also especially loves bits of pancake or waffle at breakfast.

She definitely requires more entertainment now, playing with toys and getting bored more easily now.  Her favorite toy is her flower rattle, her minnie rattle and floppy bunny.  But she also loves to play with kitchen utensils and often sits in her high chair to keep me company while I cook.  She's also taken to looking at books and studying the pictures.  Her big sisters are happy to help her.

She loves her binky and is quickly wearing it out.  I tried switching her to a new one but she didn't fall for it.

Today she tried the swings at the park for the first time and she LOVED it.  She immediately began cooing and singing and was grinning from ear to ear.

She has mastered the "scooch".  She rolls from a sitting position onto her stomach and then pushes herself around.  Despite whatever intentions she may have, she always manages to push herself backwards, and then usually gets upset because the item she wanted was in front of her and is now moving further away.

And recently, she has begun "scooching" and pushes herself up onto her knees.  She starts to wobble and rock back and forth, looking up at me and grinning.  I, of course, scoop her up and beg her to not start that, insisting she can't crawl yet and certainly not before Daddy gets home from his business trip.  But she keeps trying and while I still think she's a few weeks away, I'm sure she will be crawling soon.

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