Hair- We still haven't done much with your hair yet... It's almost getting past that baby stage where it just lays and so we should start to 'train' it in a certain direction, but it still just looks silly... It's getting too long to just comb forward, but if you try to part it, well... that looks even goofier. Certainly happy you have hair, we just need it to get a tad longer...
Clothes- Solidly in the 12 month clothes pretty much all around, I just pulled out an entire diaper box full of clothes that are too small, or too summery now that it's fall. There were a few outfits that I was sad to see go, but I know they'll get good use with someone else.
Teeth- You indeed now have three teeth! Two on the bottom and one on the top. I don't see anymore close to the surface, but it's not like you let me dig around in there either.
New Skills- You've mastered going down the stairs now as well! Such a great learner :) You slide down feet first on your belly. I am also super impressed with your 'test' to see which way you should proceed. Let's say you're on the couch and you want down, you put your arm out. If you can't touch the ground, you turn around and slide down feet first. If you CAN touch the bottom, you will proceed head first. This causes a bit of confusion with a flight of stairs because you can touch each individual step, but we don't want you going down head first!
You still don't walk on your own. I'm in no rush, but I do think you'll be pleased with yourself when you can. You will walk far distances when supported with two hands, and short distances when we only hold one hand. You walk along and behind things like a champ! I'm sure it will be soon :)
Foods- Foods are still going great, although you seem to get 'backed up' fairly often (sorry for the potty talk) but I can't quite figure it out... You drink about three bottles of milk each day and other than that you pretty much eat what we're having. You have a good healthy appetite and love to feed yourself. You are even getting pretty good about using the spoon. We will put food on it, and then you take the spoon and feed yourself. It's pretty cute :) Maybe we need to get you some forks soon...
Favorite moments- You're getting really good with 'dada' and I am pretty sure it identifies daddy so that's good. In addition to 'Boo' that's about it so far with words.
We went to the pumpkin patch this year with grandma and grandpa Holm. We went to Kruger farm over on Sauvie Island. We had one of the online deals that got us all sorts of goodies. You were SOOO good. You just chilled in the stroller while we wheeled through the corn maze, ate roasted corn on the cob, had some lunch and picked out some pumpkins. As a result we don't have any great pics of you in the pumpkins from that day, but daddy and I did take you to a different pumpkin patch on a nice sunny day... maybe I will find those pics...
I just love to watch you play! We went to the library the other day, and they have an amazing play place that I can tell you are going to enjoy for years to come. It is already a delight to watch you crawl around and interact with stuff. You'll swing this thing, or clank that thing and you are so pleaseed with yourself that you turn with a big giggle and grin! so precious.
Least Favorite moment- Well remember this part was about getting shots last month... well those shots didn't treat you so nicely... You went through about a week or week and a half where things were just not so good for you... runny nose, didn't nap well, woke up in the night a few nights, and just needy and grumpy when you were awake! I want to blame the shots, but you were also cutting that top tooth so who knows! I do know we were glad to get you back to normal though :)
Anything else? Just like getting to rock you last month, I did get to do that a few more times this past month. It's always nice to cuddle with you (when you're really awake you rarely cuddle because you're on the move so much!) Rocking you to sleep those few times was amazing, however I don't really have the magic touch that gets you from my rocking arms into your bed without fuss. You usually wake up completely, cry loudly for a few minutes, then settle back into sleep. It's so rough because I don't want to disturb that sleeping little angel, but I can't sleep like that all night!
Dinner Club has been happening for over 5 years now, and look how it has expanded! Keegan, Makena, Peyton, Hudson, Roman and Maia :) (Missing a new baby B, who we didn't actually get baby B in the pic because we were all so pleasantly surprised at the new expecting news!) Quite the feat to get this picture, notice the daddies in the background. Peyton was trying to steal poor Makena's headband right off her head (to save her from it, not because Peyton wanted it :)
Mama's failed attempt at a photo shoot
Daddy and Peyton at the Pumpkin Patch, we were visting the animal barn. Peyton loves to look at animals.
A Peyton sized pumpkin :)
Sittin' in some straw (ouch mama this is pokey!) (my response- sit still it's going to be a cute picture)
My pumpkin in a sea of pumpkins. She was totally distracted by the straw so I was holding a piece up, just to get her to look up!
Ooh lots of straw!
Super baby with her straw!
A boy and his toys... oh and Peyton too. I am fairly confident that Chris would have climbed on the tractor himself if he'd had more time :)
Peyton on a rocking horse! This is one of the first pictures where I think she actually looks like me. Perhaps it's the expression, I'm not sure. I have been told by more than one person that she only looks like me when she's crying...
Alas, until next month!
Great pictures! Its amazing how quickly she's growing up!
ReplyDeleteLove the pictures! She's so cute! :)
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