Things I do

Here I am sleeping after a hard couple of hours of playing with my toys and rolling all over the place. I just rolled onto my side, stuck my trusty thumb in my mouth and out I went!

I'm gonna knock you out.....er, chew on you until you are a slobbery wet mess! Either way you can't get away from me little orange elephant!

Yeah, I got muscles, and yeah, I'm gonna pull this big 'ol thing outta here and throw it on the floor for the millionth time today. And I'm gonna jump because the noise will startle me then I will laugh like a loon until I realize it isn't there anymore then I will cry until you put it back so I can do it all again........and you will like it!

mmmmm...this is my very favoritist thing in the entire world to do. I love these soft thingys mom calls hands, they are so chew-lish-is! If mommy has a clean knuckle I like to chew on that too. I think I might get something called a tooth soon, I drool so much I have a little drool rash on my chin even though mommy puts petroleum jelly on it a billiondy times a day!

Woo-hoo, I can sit! Not for long though, I weeble and wobble and slowly lean forward until I am on my tummy again!

So Skye has this new thing she does. It is called standing up and she wants to do it all the time. She just has no desire to bend her hips. When you hold her in your lap good luck getting her to sit! I went to put her in her carseat the other day and here are the results! She locked those knees and those hips tight. I had to use both of my hands to very gently force her to bend her hips so I could sit her down and buckle her up! Already a stubborn little turkey.........

I was so worn out from all the activity on Christmas morning that I fell asleep right in the middle of Mammaw's living room! I looked so festive wearing my new jammies. They said Babies First Christmas on the front and had little reindeer, snowmen, and santa's all over them.

I love being Mommy's big helper! We were wrapping big sister's Christmas presents. Well, Mommy was wrapping and I was helping by sitting in my bumbo and being cute! Mommy thought I was so funny sitting there with all those gifts behind me. Especially when I put my face on my hand,Mommy said I must be thinking "I wonder which one is mine"

THAT is what you are going to feed me? I don't know about that........

Well, I don't really know....

Ew, ick, this is NOT what I ordered!

Oh boy, you aren't going to make me eat anymore!!

Today I had my first bit of rice cereal! Mommy mixed it with my favorite booby milk so it would taste familiar but I still wasn't very impressed. Mommy only gave me 3 bites, she said she felt so bad about the faces I was making. I ate it though so maybe I just need to give it another chance in a days and give myself some time to get used to it. Mommy is going to make some homemade rice cereal for me next time, she found out you can ground up brown rice and cook it then keep it in the fridge for feedings, it is a lot better for me than cereal made from processed rice and I bet it tastes better too! I go to the dr. next week for my 4 month shots and Mommy is going to ask Dr. Thornton if I can have mashed avocado and bananas within the next few weeks! So many exciting things are happening to me right now!

Saturday December 6, 2008

Today was a really big day for me! I was laying on my back and I saw a toy I wanted. I couldn't reach it so I rolled onto my side. Mommy saw me trying to roll so she grabbed her camera, as usual. I rolled onto my side and got my leg over. I grunted a whole lot because it is hard work trying to roll around like that! Anyway, I finally got all the way over but I still couldn't reach my toy so I rolled one more time back to my back! Then I spit-up, my tummy was all crazy I guess.

The picture up top should have been the lasr picture but I loaded it wrong!

Ahhh...my first Thanksgiving! Mommy was being silly and put the Turkey leg in front of me. See how I am sitting in my bumpo seat all by myself! The turkey leg was almost as big as I was, that is because it came from a 25 pound turkey, that is 10 more pounds that I weigh right now! Aunt Jenny picked me up and put me next to the turkey with my legs pushed up like turkey legs and that turkey just dwarfed me. Of course the batteries in the camera were dead at the time so mommy missed that photo op! I had a really good day on my first big family holiday. There were 22 people at my Mammaw's house and they all wanted to get kisses and hugs from me! Then we went to Nan and Pops and everyone wanted to cuddle up on me there too! I was a really good sport about it and didn't start to get fussy until about 8 that night. Once I was home Mommy gave me a nice warm bath and nursed me and I fell right asleep. I slept all the way until way after sunrise! It was fun but I really missed my Daddy, I sure hope he gets to be home next Thanksgiving when I can actually EAT the turkey!

I Can Do It!!

Today was a big day for me! On November 24th I grabbed my rattle out of big sister's hand and put it into my mouth! This was the first time I actually reached for something and was able to grasp it. Now I am grabbing just about everything! On Thanksgiving Mommy was holding me while she fixed her plate and I grabbed the buttery roll that was sitting on her plate. Just as she got all the butter wiped off of my fingers I put my fist in her mashed potatoes! Mommy says that she can no longer hold me on the same side that her food or drinks are on and she is right, I want to put it ALL in my mouth! The picture of me wearing the white and red outfit was the first time I grabbed the rattle. The pink outfit picture was when I rolled onto my side and picked it up off of the floor a few days later! Mommy says that she and sister have to be extra super careful about things on the floor now that I am rolling around and grabbing things, she doesn't want me to get something bad or small in my mouth!